A comprehensive resource to apply the Ontario Social Studies Inquiry-based Expectations, this unit of over 100 pages is filled with teachers' notes, checklists, exit passes, and organizers to eliminate teachers' stress due to the new Ontario Social Studies, Geography and History-Inquiry-based requir...
Kids will have fun while learning where do I Live with this printable activity perfect for preschool, pre-k, and kindergarten students.
The connection between social studies and art includes different cultures while using art to explore history in new ways. Read more!
Here is my set of Social Studies tests, study sheets and answer keys for the Grade 5 French Immersion Social Studies unit on: Premieres nations et premiers Européens en Nouvelle France. These tests and study sheets are ready to print and hand out. They provide an excellent study guide, given that most schools do not have a designated Social Studies textbook for this unit. I normally provide my students with the study sheet 1 week ahead of the test.
Little 1st grade Social Studies Thinkers Curriculum is a complete First Grade social studies curriculum with lessons specifically for primary kids. It's content-focused, user-friendly, and contains EVERYTHING you need to introduce, teach, practice, and assess your students. NO SUPPLEMENTING.
Engage your first-grade students in a comprehensive exploration of heritage and identity with this engaging and inclusive unit. Through a series of hands-on activities, discussions, and multimedia presentations, students will delve into their family backgrounds, traditions, and cultural identities w...
This Long Ago and Today Unit scaffolds learning for students. It helps them compare artifacts as well as their lives to those who lived long ago.
Hello Everyone! Hope you're having a joyfilled day!! I wanted to share my "Me and My Community" social studies mini unit with you. If you...
Social Studies, first grade, centers, belonging, planning, centres, assessment
One of the first projects or themes I find fun, simple and engaging is learning about Communities (2 weeks) and making a map as the culminating activity to end the unit. (For a total of 3 weeks on Community) This week, I started by reading the class a book on maps I got on Amazon. The book was chunked over a period of 2 days to ensure understanding. Maps - Kindergarten Unit After the story, the students were shown real maps that I had saved from going on little road trips. We sat in a circle and talked about what we noticed on them. I had a few kids share out about a time they used a map with their family. Real maps - San Diego, San Francisco I also had some maps from the San Diego Zoo and and some play maps for kids from a teacher supply store. We watched a video on maps and models from the United Streaming's website. Our district purchased user licenses for all teachers to access their videos on our Promethean Boards. I pulled out our old ELD song for communities from Rigby. The red car is on velcro and sticks to the different places in the community. So we fill in the sentence frames depending on where the car lands. On Tuesday, I read the last chunk of the Map book. Then, I pulled out our Writing Web for the power word "go." (The laminated web is from a district purchased program called Learning Headquarters). I taught the sight words "go" under my own structure however as a part of this writing unit in my TPT Store called Rebus Writing using Sight Words. The word "go" is week 5 of the 8 week unit. With a pointer I pointed to the word web and we orally filled out each sentence frame from the word bank. I allowed the kids to draw their own interpretation of a map on a half sheet of drawing paper as a pre-assessment to see where they are. Most kids drew standard pictures of places but some surprised me and had some streets and people walking in the map to different places. On Wednesday, I read them a book on map keys/legends. Map Keys and Legends I put up a class legend on the Promethean board that had four requirements. The sample legend was pre filled and colored and drawn and labeled. I asked the kids to draw a map on a full sized drawing page that had a: school, police station, neighborhood of homes, and a park. The symbol for each was a: building with flag next to it, building with a car next to it, triangles to symbolize a neighborhood, and a slide to symbolize the park. I set the kids to work and could see them looking up and referencing the sample key as they drew their maps. I noticed an improvement in their pictures from the day before. Once all the required components from the class key were on their maps I passed out markers and let them fill in the blanks and put more detail in the map. I cut out small legends that were identical to the one I had on the board and had kids glue it on the corner of their map. They were allowed to take it home. By Thursday, I brought out the colorful construction paper! The neat piles of color coded paper soon got a little messy! I had pre cut them into squares or rectangles. The first to go was blue because everyone was required to put a body of water on their map somewhere. It could be a river, lake, ocean or backyard pool. Also, the black strips I precut were the first to go because those were the streets and kids were allowed to use up to four. Building community maps 1 Building community maps 2 Children got right to work. They were so excited. Each map came out truly unique. As the kids were finished up I had them set up on the rug so the glue could dry and so kids who needed inspiration could come do a carousel walk around the rug and get ideas. Finished maps One of my late finishers added a church to her map even though we never discussed it. Cute! She made her map look like quadrants! She added sand to the beach and a church! The early finishers were doing literacy centers and reading books from the community tub. Building maps was a busy day. On Friday, I handed back their maps and a blank legend key. I asked them to make a legend for their map. Each was different. map key/ legend I had them glue the legends on the back of their maps. I made them a word bank so they could copy. However, some were ready for inventive spelling and didn't need to reference it. If this were done at the end of Kindergarten I would not even offer a word bank on the board. I would ask all kids to use inventive spelling to fill out their legend. If you'd like the free blackline master for the legend see the link at the bottom of this post. IF I HAD IT TO DO OVER AGAIN... I would not have them glue the legends on the back of the maps. I would display it next to the maps because once I mounted them all on the wall I realized they were hidden. LOL! Oh well. Next year I'll have learned my lesson. Wall of Maps! Almost done. Just need to add their name tag underneath each map. After reflection, I wouldn't have just had the kids draw on blank drawing paper. So I created these blackline masters as well. Enjoy! MAPS BLACKLINE MASTERS
Teaching map skills to young students may seem daunting especially when you think about the difficult terms and vocabulary. I find it very h...
Cahier Interactif Les Iroquoiens vers 1500 Ce que comprend la mise à jour: 1. Guide de l'enseignant avec des photos de chaque modèle 2. Cahier de l'élève avec plus de 20 pages en format lettre 3. Cahier de l'élève sur Power Point à éditer afin que vous puissiez personnaliser les pages selon vos besoins Le cahier de l'élève inclus les connaissances suivantes: 1. La localisation de la société dans l'espace et dans le temps 2. Éléments de la société iroquoienne qui ont une incidence sur l'aménagement du territoire 3. Atouts et contraintes du territoire occupé 4. Influence d'un groupe sur l'organisation sociale et territoriale 5. Éléments de continuité de la société iroquoienne avec le présent Kit complet de 8 cahiers interactifs KIT DE 8 CAHIERS de GÉOGRAPHIE & HISTOIRE à la citoyenneté Autres produits de la même série 1. Les Iroquoiens vers 1500 2. Les Algonquiens vers 1500 3. Les Incas vers 1500 4. Les Iroquoiens entre 1500 et 1745 5. La société française vers 1645 6. La société canadienne et ses voisins vers 1745 7. La vie en seigneuries vers 1745 8. Les termes de Géographie Pour toute question ou commentaire, vous pouvez nous écrire à [email protected]
The “Our Changing Roles and Responsibilities” activity packet is aligned with the Ontario Grade 1 Social Studies curriculum expectations. The big ideas for this packet are as follows: - A person’s roles, responsibilities, and relationships change over time and in different situations; - Their own roles, responsibilities, and relationships play a role in developing their identity; - All people are worthy of respect, regardless of their roles, relationships, and responsibilities. This packet includes some writing activities along with cut and paste versions/activities to meet the needs of students at the Grade 1 level. This packet also includes 13 lessons and a final activity along with two grading scales for the activities presented in this packet.
Communities in Canada THREE UNIT Bundle!!By Megan's Creative Classroom**$60.00 Value**This HUGE Bundle Includes:All three Communities in Canada units (Meteghan, Iqaluit and Saskatoon), Landforms Reading and Centres and yoga poses for all three communities.<><><><><>
An in depth unit review and test for the Grade 5 Social Studies unit on First Nations and Europeans in Canada. ...
This resource addresses the five outcomes of the Saskatchewan Grade 1 Social Studies curriculum for Dynamic Relationships in French for French Immersion classes. The lesson plans are written completely in French, as are the mandated curriculum outcomes for the Saskatchewan curriculum. The lesson plans can be used as they are, but are mainly intended to help teachers with planning the unit and the lessons to fit the needs of their students. Many of the suggested children's literature selections can be found in the school library or on www.getepic.com, which is free for teachers to join using the school email. The outcomes addressed in this resource are: Outcome DR1.1: Relate family events and stories of the recent or distant past to the student’s place in present day family life Outcome DR1.2: Describe kinship patterns of the past and present and describe according to traditional teachings (Medicine Wheel teachings) Outcome DR1.3: Demonstrate awareness of humans’ reliance on the natural environment to meet needs, and how location affects families in meeting needs and wants Outcome DR1.4: Recognize globes and maps as representations of the surface of the Earth, and distinguish land and water masses on globes and maps Outcome DR1.5: Identify and represent the orientation in space (where) and time (when) of significant places and events in the lives of students Check my store under Grade 1 in the custom categories to find more resources for your classroom. The unit in English can be found here: Grade 1 Social Studies Dynamic Relations English VersionFollow me to be updated when new resources are added. I am in the process of translating all my Canadian resources to French to accommodate teacher requests. If there is something you need immediately, please send me a message - [email protected]
Children will refer to a map, a key, and a compass rose to answer eight questions in this colorful map-reading worksheet.
This product contains an 11 page PDF and PPT file that goes over Unit 1 of the Georgia 6th Grade Social Studies curriculum. The standards can be found here: https://www.georgiastandards.org/Frameworks/GSO%20Frameworks/SS%20Gr%206%20Unit%201.pdf
This blog post explains how to explore Australian Geography and Landmarks with your students through our new and exciting resource.
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Plenty of interactive ideas and activities to teach landforms for kids. Find videos, worksheets and even experiments to help.
**NEW UPDATE: Google Slides included for virtual learning** This carefully constructed, well-balanced unit corresponds with the 2018 Ontario Grade 1 Social Studies Curriculum and covers the following overall expectations: -Application: describe some aspects of the interrelationship between people and the natural and built features of their community, with a focus on how the features of and services in the community meet people’s needs -Inquiry: use the social studies inquiry process to investigate some aspects of the interrelationship between people and different natural and built features of their local community, with a focus on significant short- and long-term effects of this interrelationship -Understanding Context: describe significant aspects of their community, with reference to different areas, services, and natural and built features, demonstrating an understanding of some basic ways of describing location and measuring distance This extensive resource contains everything you’ll need to teach the entire unit from beginning to end, including: -detailed unit plans and engaging lesson plans -creative printables and fun activities -colourful, kid-friendly posters -editable assessment tracking templates -community building pictures & photographs -an in-depth instructional strategies handbook -culminating tasks (come with rubrics or checklists to make marking them a breeze!) -Bonus: Google slides of all activity sheets, posters, assessments and student materials for distance learning A detailed preview of this unit has been provided so you know what you’re getting before you buy it. Please do not hesitate to contact us if you have any questions at all. If you like this product and find it helpful, kindly leave your feedback! Also be sure to follow us for more updates, freebies and educational resources! We appreciate your support! Thank you! 2 SMART Chicks
These No Prep Emergency Sub Plans for First Grade include 2 days of substitute plans plus Common Core aligned printables. Students will work on literacy, math, science, and social studies! Editable templates are also included!
Social studies is hands-down one of my favorite subjects! Social studies allows students to peer into new lands, explore the past, and tie i...
Community Helpers activities and centers for preschool, pre-k, and kindergarten. Plus FREE community signs & fire finger painting printable.
Last year when I taught the explorers, I had the students write the information down on a chart . This year I wanted to add the interactive...
Are you looking for super fun measurement worksheets and activities for kindergarten?? You found them!! Your students will LOVE these hands-on learning activities and fun, extra practice worksheets that teach a variety of kindergarten measurement concepts.
Hello Again Friends! This is Jen Bengel from Out of This World Literacy. I hope everyone is staying warm and enjoying the first few wee...
Hello Everyone! Hope you're having a joyfilled day!! I wanted to share my "Me and My Community" social studies mini unit with you. If you are one of my kiddos reading this, have mom or dad print it off for you and get busy!! :) We've done many of these activities already, but it is still a great summer time filler! The unit contains 30 pages of poems, drawing and writing activities, anchor chart activities, a mini book for kids to make, citizenship, community workers, map skill activities, and much more. I have loved having time to organize it. Don't you love summer for just that reason? Here are a few pics of what is included! Unit contains three poems An 8 page mini book for kids to make Our "Me on the Map" anchor chart Craft Connection Inspired by finallyinfirst.blogspot.com :) Mini poster "What will you be?" anchor sample- unit contains all 4 cardinal directions and a compas rose Since you are part of my community, here's your free 30 page printable unit. Click Here! Hope you can use a least a bit of this!! I can't wait to use it again this fall!! Have a great rest of the day! Joyfully! Nancy
Kick off your school year with map and globe skills ! What middle school social studies classroom doesn’t cover map skills? Since map skills are a basic concept covered in middle school social studies, you'd think it would be easy to find resources for it. However, most of the resources out there a
As a kid in school I loved when my teachers celebrated creativity in the classroom. In fact, when I reflect on my own education, the moment...
I've posted up my Social Studies program about Social Communities. You can purchase each section by itself, or get the whole bundle. There's even a set for Canadian and a different set f
Hello Everyone! Thanks for stopping by to take a peek! Today I worked on updating our beginning of the year social studies unit, "Me and M...
This package includes: Shared reading passages, Easy-to-follow worksheets, Differentiated tasks (Low and High), Unit Quiz, Unit Review Tests, Answer Key, All expectations in "People and Environments" Strand covered, Includes 3 Formats: 1. PDF Download: Download PDF and photocopy worksheets 2. TPT EASEL Activity: EASEL FAQ EASEL Tutorial 3. Google Slides: Download PDF and click on the link at the bottom of the contents page Make your own copy of the Google Slides when prompted Based on the Ontario Curriculum (2023) Activities Aligned with Curriculum Expectations Include: B1. Application: Variations in Global Communities B1.1 Japan B1.1 Kenya B1.1 Comparing Japan and Kenya B1.2 Adaptation B1.3 Sustainable Living B2. Inquiry: Natural Environments and Ways of Life B2.1 Formulate Questions B2.2 Organize Data B2.1, 2.2 Interview an Expert B2.3 Equator B2.3 Hot and Cold Climates B2.4 Temperature Bar Graph B2.4 Rainfall Pictograph B2.4 Snowfall Map B2.5 Ways of Life B2.6 Vocabulary B2.6 Word Search B3. Understanding Context: Physical Features and Communities B3.1, 3.2 Continents B3.1, 3.2 Oceans B3.2 Hemispheres B3.3 Cardinal Directions B3.4 Location and Climate B3.5 Where in the World? B3.5, 3.7 Nunavut B3.6 Amazon, Peru B3.6 Mongolia, Countryside B3.6 Basic Human Needs B3.7 Maasai Mara, Kenya B3.7 Outback, Australia B3.8 Venn Diagram Curriculum Content: This product is made according to the expectations in the Ontario Curriculum. Some components may not be suitable for communities in all parts of the world. If you're wondering whether this resource is right for you, please feel free to contact me in the Q&A below. Any claims of correlation or alignment to the Ontario Curriculum are solely those of School Qube, and have not been evaluated by any institution or organization. Also Available for Ontario Social Studies: Grade 1 Social Studies Grade 2 Social Studies: Changing Family and Community Traditions Grade 3 Social Studies Also Available for Ontario Curriculum: Grade 1 Ontario Health Grade 2 Ontario Health Grade 3 Ontario Health Ontario Health Primary Bundle (Grades 1, 2, 3) Grade 4 Ontario Health Grade 5 Ontario Health Grade 6 Ontario Health Ontario Health Junior Bundle (Grades 4, 5, 6)
