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5th grade Back to School social studies games

Preview of Classroom Procedures & Routines Game: Back to School Activity | EDITABLE

Classroom Procedures & Routines Game: Back to School Activity | EDITABLE

Created by
Fun in 5th Grade
Take review days from dull to dazzling with this Jeopardy-style classroom PowerPoint game! This highly engaging Classroom Procedures Game Show PowerPoint makes reviewing classroom procedures something that students are EXCITED to do!  My class CHEERS when they see this game in the plans. Students will be listening to your every word as they work hard to earn points for their team.  It’s a win-win for you and your students: you have a no-prep activity that practices important standards and kids w
Preview of 4th Grade Math Review Game Show 4th Grade Math Test Prep End of Year Math Review

4th Grade Math Review Game Show 4th Grade Math Test Prep End of Year Math Review

Created by
Shelly Rees
This fun, interactive 4th grade Jeopardy style test prep math game will have your students begging for more activities just like it! Get ready for a fun end of year math review with the exciting, easy to use Math Mania Game Show. Perfect for 4th grade math test prep or last week activities!Please click on the PREVIEW button above to see how the game works!Click HERE to save 35% with the 4th Grade Math Game Show Bundle for the Year!Click HERE for the 5th Grade Math Review Game.*** NEWLY ADDED! Th
Preview of Escape Room - Team Building - Any Content

Escape Room - Team Building - Any Content

Escape room style team building activity - perfect for back to school! This escape room will help students learn to work together at the beginning of the year. This interactive escape room requires technology. Students will need to access a Google Form, so any technology that allows them to access and complete a Google Form will work! The Google Form is pre-coded, which automates the entire breakout experience! Other than printing and minimal cutting, this Escape Room is ready for you to use! No
Preview of Getting to Know You | Four Corners Game | ESL Activity | Back to School

Getting to Know You | Four Corners Game | ESL Activity | Back to School

Four Corners is an activity that gets students up and out of their seats. This 4 Corners game is a fun "Getting to Know You" activity, perfect for the beginning of the year and throughout. It can also double as an engaging class warm-up activity! Created for beginning and intermediate English learners, thirty differentiated slides with visual supports provide ample question choices to suit your class needs. Three levels of questions are included, with ten slides for each level. Project a questio
Preview of Choose Three! Ice Breaker Digital Learning Game

Choose Three! Ice Breaker Digital Learning Game

Created by
Joanne Miller
Choose Three is a fun and engaging game to get students to think creatively! This game includes 50+ scenarios to choose from. This game can be played in person or digitally during a live meeting.**15 Christmas scenarios included in this resource with almost 70 scenarios in this fun game!So many ways to play the game! This is a great ice breaker and getting to know your students first week of school activity. Also, can be played as a five minute filler, reward, or just for fun on your Friday meet
Preview of Latitude and Longitude Battleship Game - Map Skills Geography Activities

Latitude and Longitude Battleship Game - Map Skills Geography Activities

Help your students practice their latitude and longitude skills in a fun and engaging way using this no-prep latitude and longitude battleship game! The directions are included right on the template, so this is a no prep activity that comes ready to play. I've also provided PowerPoint directions so you can show students how to play as a class. Students will become well-practiced with using a grid and making sure they always give latitude coordinates first. I've used this every year and my studen
Preview of Ancient Egypt Hieroglyphics Escape Room Activity | Engaging Crack the Code Game

Ancient Egypt Hieroglyphics Escape Room Activity | Engaging Crack the Code Game

In this Ancient Egypt Escape Room activity, students are introduced to ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics and are placed in the shoes of investigators as they seek to crack a mysterious code left behind by the ancient Egyptians. Student investigative teams have one class period to solve four clues, each written in hieroglyphics, then complete the final formula to crack the code. Students only have a set number of attempts to open the lock before the ancient lock deteriorates and remains jammed for
Preview of 25 Community Building Activities and Games | Back to School | Team Building

25 Community Building Activities and Games | Back to School | Team Building

Created by
Joanne Miller
These community building activities and games are perfect for the first weeks of school! Students will use collaboration and teamwork which will build a positive learning community in your classroom. These unique challenges and games will be different than most of the "getting to know you" activities your students have done in previous years. These activities are not just designed to be used only the first week of school, but give the perfect opportunity to build friendships, teamwork, and creat
Preview of End of the Year Break Activities - Digital Resource Mystery Game - Team Building

End of the Year Break Activities - Digital Resource Mystery Game - Team Building

Are you ready to watch reading comprehension skills skyrocket before the end of the year break?! Great for team building! Students will work together to solve the mystery AND practice a variety of academic skills including; inferencing, critical thinking, problem solving, reading comprehension, and much more! The material is so fun and engaging, students won't even know they are actually learning! This activity can be used anytime of year and is a fantastic way to get students excited about l
Preview of The Crazy Cards Challenge | Icebreaker, Cooperative Team Building Activity |

The Crazy Cards Challenge | Icebreaker, Cooperative Team Building Activity |

This is a great game that you can play as an icebreaker at the beginning of the year (or anytime really) to help kids develop connections, laugh, get to know each other and have a good time working together to complete a challenge.This game is good for all ages - even adults :-) The challenge is to finish all 60 task cards in the shortest amount of time possible.The real purpose of the game is just to “break the ice” - to have fun working together, to get kids laughing with one another and to p
Preview of Classroom Scattergories | Community Building Activity

Classroom Scattergories | Community Building Activity

This Classroom Scattergories Game is a great icebreaker for the beginning of the year, a fun game for the end of the year, or perfect to play throughout the year! This resource includes both a printable and digital version. It can be played as a full class with the students playing individually or in pairs or teams that compete during each round. The game can be made as short or long as you want it, so it's also a fun time filler that keeps students thinking. It's great for sub plans, to use dur
Preview of Get To Know You Activity Ice Breaker Speech Therapy Connect with Others Original

Get To Know You Activity Ice Breaker Speech Therapy Connect with Others Original

Created by
Stacy Crouse
Out with traditional ice breakers, and in with a NEW activity to get to know and BUILD RAPPORT with your students... while targeting speech therapy GOALS at the same time! This simple and versatile game for OLDER students comes with 2 VERSIONS– print and digital.The game allows you to target tons of LANGUAGE & PRAGMATIC goals within a FUNCTIONAL activity, including:✅ Asking and answering QUESTIONS using appropriate syntax✅ Engaging in back-and-forth CONVERSATION✅ Asking FOLLOW-UP questions✅
Preview of Editable Class Word Search Puzzle Templates- printable & digital

Editable Class Word Search Puzzle Templates- printable & digital

Updated 7/21/2020: This editable set of word search puzzle templates is perfect for back-to-school! Students will work to find their classmates' names within the puzzle. It's a great way for students to get to know one another and to recognize their classmates' names. Super simple but very fun. Students especially love finding their own name within the puzzle! The resource is includes both a printable and digital file for Google Slides. You'll add your students' names in the spaces at the b
Preview of Histagories Social Studies End of Year Activity for US and World History

Histagories Social Studies End of Year Activity for US and World History

In this history review and conversation game, students are engaged with 8 short lists of information where they work with partners (or individually) to try to come up with answers based on the letter for the round. Included is a letter-choosing paper (students flip a coin and see where it lands!) plus 8 different lists geared toward History, Geography, Geology, and Social Studies themes! A condensed worksheet is also included to save space.Enjoy this fun way to spend the first few (or last few
Preview of First Day Jitters Book Activities {Back to School Read Aloud, Worksheets, Games}

First Day Jitters Book Activities {Back to School Read Aloud, Worksheets, Games}

***UPDATED to ALSO INCLUDE a 62 slide PowerPoint Show to use with the book First Day Jitters and all the printables!*** This back to school pack is PERFECT for the first couple weeks of school! This unit is centered around the mentor text First Day Jitters by Julie Danneberg. After reading this story aloud to your students, have fun with the games, printables, activities and a PowerPoint show included in this download. Everything is ready to go!You'll find pre-reading activities, vocabulary, sto
Preview of Branches of Government ESCAPE ROOM! Legislative, Executive, Judicial Branch

Branches of Government ESCAPE ROOM! Legislative, Executive, Judicial Branch

Created by
Think Tank
The Branches of Government Escape Room will take students on a secret mission around the classroom! This escape room has students decode interesting facts about the Legislative, Executive and Judicial Branches of government. This Escape Room has students walking around the classroom breaking codes. The codes include ciphers, Morse code, cryptograms and a final 4 digit code based on the decoders/clues.What’s Included?✏️ 4 Reading Passages✏️ 4 Puzzle Phrases to Decode✏️ 4 Decoders✏️ 4 Differentiat
Preview of The Great Depression: A Saving and Spending Game

The Great Depression: A Saving and Spending Game

Students work together in small groups to make decisions about how to save or spend their money during the Great Depression. They will see what it is like to have a well-paying job and then lose most of their money in the stock market crash of 1929. They will have to find a new job, a place to live (hobo camp or boxcar), and figure out how to provide for their family with very little.Students will have to subtract their bills from their total amount of money using a spending ledger (provided).
Preview of Types of Governments Straw Activity Simulation

Types of Governments Straw Activity Simulation

An interactive simulation to introduce the types of governments to middle-schoolers. Students get to compete with each other in groups to see who can build the best straw tower with straws and tape, but there's a slight catch: each group must build the straw tower how their assigned government would build it. This is guaranteed to be a fun activity that students will love while simultaneously learning about different types of governments!This Types of Governments Straw Activity includes:♦ Instru
Preview of States and Capitals Bingo, I Have Who Has Game (50 States & Capitals Activities)

States and Capitals Bingo, I Have Who Has Game (50 States & Capitals Activities)

This resource is intended to help students learn the states, capitals and abbreviations and to help spark student interest United States Social Studies. Download Preview FilePlease view the preview file prior to purchasing. Please ensure that it is appropriate for your grade level prior to purchasing.This social studies resource includes:1. Social Studies State Study Cards2. Social Studies State Study Sheets3. States and Capitals I Have, Who has? Game4. States and Abbreviations I Have, Who
Preview of Back to School Bundle

Back to School Bundle

Make this your best Back to School ever with our Back to School Bundle! This bundle includes four of our most popular back to school activities: Growth Mindset Activities - Digital and Printable, Back to School Escape Room - Printable, Back to School Classroom Procedures Game Board, and Meet the Teacher Slides to make your back to school lesson planning a breeze.The Growth Mindset resource includes five days of engaging lesson plans to help your students understand how the brain works! Students
Preview of Back to School Activities Escape Room | Getting to Know You Game

Back to School Activities Escape Room | Getting to Know You Game

Created by
Teresa Kwant
Now updated with a digital option! The digital option is a Google Form. Will your class escape in time? Try this escape room style game with your students today! This is a fun game that is perfect for the back to school season. This game focuses on students getting to know each other. It is similar to a “Find Someone Who” game, but an escape room version. This activity is great for the first day of school, team building activities, and for students just getting to know each other! It is perfect
Preview of Plymouth (Plimoth) Colony Unit: The Mayflower, Pilgrims, Wampanoag People

Plymouth (Plimoth) Colony Unit: The Mayflower, Pilgrims, Wampanoag People

Plymouth (Plimoth) was a fascinating settlement. Pilgrims, originally known as Separatists, were treated poorly in England because they refused to follow the teachings of the Church of England. After years of struggle, they finally set sail on the Mayflower with the goal of creating a farming village in the New World. The Wampanoag People, who had lived in the area for thousands of years, entered into a peace agreement with the Pilgrims. This peace agreement lasted for decades. Do you want to pr
Preview of Morning Meeting Activities & Games

Morning Meeting Activities & Games

These Activities & Games for Morning Meeting are the perfect go-to for your classroom! Print, laminate, and put on a binder ring for convenient access.85 activities, songs, and games are included and are divided into sets for the beginning, middle, and end of the year.Includes the following:Page 2: How to Teach Activities and GamesPage 3: Side TabsPage 4: CoversPage 5-23: Beginning of the Year Activities & Games *Page 12-13: EDITABLE “I Have…Who Has” cards *Page 24: EDITA
Preview of Virtual Field Trip *Growing* Bundle! National Parks, Space & More!

Virtual Field Trip *Growing* Bundle! National Parks, Space & More!

Created by
Teach or Travel
ULTIMATE Virtual Field Trip *Growing* Bundle!12 trips and GROWING! This product will include all my future elementary field trips! Grab it now at the lowest price!! Bundle price will increase when new trips are added.⭐️NEW⭐️ MEMPHIS, TN Dr. MLK Jr. added 1/28/2024⭐️NEW⭐️ THE GREAT WALL OF CHINA added 5/22/2022 - Redownload to access!! Virtual Field Trips are an engaging activity for in person learning or online meetings. No matter the format of instruction, your students will be engaged! Use the
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Importance of learning social studies

Social studies offers valuable insights into history, geography, and much more. Social studies captivates students by providing them with perspectives from the past, present, and future, allowing them to understand history and navigate current events. It enables them to appreciate how previous generations have shaped their present reality. In essence, social studies opens their eyes to the vastness of life beyond their immediate surroundings.

Benefits of learning social studies

Learning social studies offers many benefits to students in terms of helping them develop a holistic understanding of the world. Namely, it helps them:

  • Learn about the achievements, challenges, perspectives, traditions, and customs of different societies
  • Evaluate information, analyze evidence, and make informed judgments about complex social, economic, and political issues
  • Become active, responsible, and engaged citizens
  • Comprehend global issues such as human rights, environmental sustainability, and economic disparities

By teaching social studies, teachers can help students develop critical thinking skills, foster civic engagement, and promote social awareness and responsibility.

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On TPT, social studies resources come in various formats, from worksheets to interactive notebooks to units. They can be used to enhance learning, assess a student’s mastery of social studies concepts, or to reteach a tricky topic. With plenty of TPT resources at your fingertips, teaching and learning social studies will be so much easier.

Discover printable and digital social studies resources

If you’re a teacher or parent looking for printable or digital social studies resources, TPT has an extensive array of instructional materials for every learning need, topic, or grade level. Whether you’re teaching students about America’s democratic process, the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., how to read maps, or World War II, we’ve got you covered.

Social studies resources on TPT offer informative lessons, engaging texts, intriguing facts, interactive puzzles, and enjoyable trivia games. These grade-specific resources ensure that all students can access age-appropriate materials that stimulate their minds and enhance their creative thinking abilities.

For instance, first graders can explore worksheets on senses and emotions, followed by a coloring page featuring Harriet Tubman. Older students can test their knowledge with quizzes on statistics and capital cities, then delve into the history of the Underground Railroad through an informational sheet or enjoy a word search focused on civil rights leaders. With such a wide variety of subjects and topics covered, our social studies pages provide endless opportunities for students to explore the world in captivating ways.

Frequently asked questions about teaching social studies

What types of social studies lessons are available on TPT?

There are many different types of history resources sold by Sellers on TPT. Some popular social studies lessons include U.S. history, world history, ancient history, geography, civics, and government.

How do I find social studies lessons on TPT?

Educators can save time preparing history lessons with resources created by experienced teachers. Simply start a search for social studies resources on the TPT marketplace, and filter by grade level, price, and/or resource type to find materials that've been proven to work in classrooms like yours. No matter what you’re teaching, there are plenty of social studies lessons and activities sold by Sellers on TPT that are tailored to meet your students' skill levels.