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12th grade social studies task cards
Community Signs Skill Pack Leveled for Special Education - Life Skills
Do your students need a high level of varied practice in order to learn community signs? This community signs skill pack will help your students progress from identifying a sign to understanding what the community signs mean. Being able to identify and understand community signs is a crucial life skill. These activities help students recognize and understand the meaning of the different signs.This life skills and social studies set is already differentiated for you. There are 3 levels included t
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K - 12th
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Spanish Speaking Countries BUNDLE Project Maps Flip Book Quizzes + DIGITAL
This money-saving bundle has everything you need to teach the Spanish-speaking countries, their locations, and capitals! Includes maps, quizzes, project, activities, and more! Save over 30% on this bundle of the following items:Spanish-Speaking Countries Flip BookNo cut, no waste, 6 page / 3 pieces of paper printable flip bookDigital flip book in Google Slides for paperless or distance learningWestern Europe map to label SpainWest Africa map to label Equatorial GuineaCentral America / North Am
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6th - 12th
BUNDLED September Unique Learning Systems Task Boxes- Unit 1 Government
**Save 40%** Need extra independent tasks to pair with Unique Learning System (ULS) lessons? I’ve got you covered! These interactive independent task boxes & work stations use Symbolstix images to coordinate with the Unique Learning System (ULS) September Unit 1--Government Rules & Laws. **monthly digital versions coming soon!**This file includes:* addition task cards (1-10) with worksheet* subtraction task cards (1-10) with worksheet * tens frames 1-10* tens frames to 1-20* tens frames
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PreK - 12th
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GRAPES Lesson and Activities for History, Social Studies
These activities are perfect for providing students with the information they need to use the GRAPES acronym all year long in your history class! Use as as an introductory unit before studying your first civilization or historical time period. Great for building student interest in ancient history! Check preview for details! All digital versions are Google Slides resources.INCLUDED:Presentation: Introductory GRAPES presentation with 25+ slides including definitions, examples, graphics, and key
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5th - 12th
Also included in:Â GRAPES History Resource Bundle
Thinking like a Historian Task Cards Social Studies Primary Secondary Sources
Save by buying the bundle! ⇨ Historical Thinking Task Cards and PostersThese are 75 Task Cards to encourage Historical Thinking skills and Critical Thinking skills in your classroom. These task cards work with five historical thinking or reasoning skills - Sourcing, Point-of-View, Purpose, Context and Intended Audience. There are 15 cards for each skill, and they are differentiated into three levels. Therefore, the Level "A" cards can be used with middle school students, and the Level "B" and "C
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7th - 12th
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Historical Thinking Task Cards Posters for Social Studies Primary Sources BUNDLE
The bundle includes my Historical Thinking task cards and my Historical Thinking posters!The 75 Task Cards are made to encourage Historical Thinking skills and Critical Thinking skills in your classroom. These task cards work with five historical thinking or reasoning skills - Sourcing, Point-of-View, Purpose, Context and Intended Audience. There are 15 cards for each skill, and they are differentiated into three levels. Therefore, the Level "A" cards can be used with middle school students, and
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7th - 12th
Vocational Stocking Practice with Personal Care Products Work Task Box Activity
Vocational Skills are important! Making them functional, purposeful and relatable take it to the next level! Here is the complete vocational skills set-up to create a vocational stocking practice with a store front in your vocational classroom or any worked based classroom. Great for autism to other students working on their vocational goals! Contrary to Pinterest pictures, you don't have to create a complete store front wall to complete this task! Check out the pictures for other ideas on h
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4th - 12th, Higher Education
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Also included in:Â Special Education Vocational Stocking Practice Work Tasks BUNDLE
Ethical Dilemmas | Moral Dilemmas | Ethics | Activity Cards
Ethical and moral dilemmas are excellent ways to develop student empathy, social awareness and critical thinking skills. Students are able to consider their responses to each scenario and reflect upon the personal values that contribute to their stance.This packet includes 40 stand-alone situations which need personal ethical and moral judgements. Having used these cards in my own classrooms, they generate significant discussion and allow students to make connections they had previously not cons
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9th - 12th
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Bank and Account Types - Learning Walk | Discovery Station Task Cards
Are you looking for a way to make learning about banking a bit more exciting for your students. I know I have struggled with making banks, credit unions, and the different types of accounts interactive and fun for the students in the past. This activity has given my students a way to learn that engages them and also shows them the kind of research they should be looking at before making any buying decisions, including about their financial institution. In this resource you get:13 printable stati
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8th - 12th
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Also included in:Â All Things Banking | Bundle
Social Studies Mega Bulletin Board Bundle
This Mega Bundle includes ALL of my best-selling Social Studies Bulletin Boards!"Be an Upstander" Interactive Bulletin BoardThis resource is appropriate for middle and high school students. 30 cards are included in this resource including terminology (stereotypes, prejudice, discrimination, bystander, upstander, change agent, implicit bias), 12 quote/task cards from upstanders in history, and more!An instruction sheet with teaching tips and "Upstander Response Cards" are also included in this re
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Staff
Debate Learning Stations
Debating can be difficult for students. Often, we end up witnessing poor debates because student didn't put enough effort into preparing thorough and engaging arguments. These debate stations are designed to give them the guidance and focus they need to do just that.NOTE: These stations are for skill building & planning and do not provide lessons on debating. If you would like lessons that introduce the specifics of debating procedure, check out Debating Lesson Plans & Activities.This re
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9th - 12th
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Also included in:Â Learning Stations Mega Bundle
Business Math Activity Bundle
Make math meaningful with these 6 real-world applications. Whether you are teaching a whole course on Business Math or looking to integrate cross-curricular math skills into your business curriculum, this bundle provides 6 engaging activities that cover: stock market, business cycle, insurance, budgeting, unit price, and financial forecasting. Math skills used in these activities include: -Bar, line, and pie charts-Percentages of a total-Calculating net profit/loss-Calculating stock purchases, c
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8th - 12th
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Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms: PowerPoint & Activity: Canada's Charter
Included is an extensive PowerPoint on the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedom, along with activities/discussion that encourage students to critically think about Canada's charter.PowerPoint:* Bringing the concept of guaranteed rights and freedoms to a level that all students can understand - Class discussion about having a pizza party where only some students are allowed to vote for what pizzas are ordered (e.g. only girls, or only students with brown eyes). If the teacher decides to discrim
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6th - 12th
Immigration Story Cards: Push and Pull Factors
This resource contains 24 cards which each tell an immigrant’s story. Most of the people on the cards are fictional. However, the push and pull factors given are based on historical events that caused waves of immigration. Students will read the stories and decide whether they are an example of a push factor or a pull factor. These cards can be used in several ways: Class discussionWorkstationScavenger HuntScootHuman TimelineStudents should already have been introduced to push and pull factors b
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3rd - 12th, Adult Education
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Geography Skills Review Centers Activity
Need to review basic Geography skills? Looking for an engaging resource to review those Geography skills?Use this 26 page Geography Skills Review Centers Activity to help your students review the basic Geography skills that are so vital for any Social Studies course. Open the Preview to see the complete product.Set includes 4 skills review cards on each of the following topics:ChartsGraphsMapsInformational TextsEach card provides 5 questions to guide students in the analysis of the informationa
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3rd - 12th
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Night by Elie Wiesel Reading Journal & Task Card Activity Set WWII Holocaust WW2
Night by Elie Wiesel Reading Journal and Task Card Activity Set -- Examine Night by Elie Wiesel with this interactive unit set. Read for content, respond to writing prompts for student engagement, and review key features with various task card sets and the student journal.Includes:9 Page Reading Journal 16 Reading Response Prompt Task Cards20 Vocabulary Cards w/Definitions12 Theme Task Cards8 Image Analysis Task Cards3 Essay Writing Prompts35 Total full pages to print.Addresses the following:Key
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6th - 12th, Higher Education
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September Unique Learning Systems Task Boxes (SPED, Autism)
Need extra independent tasks to pair with ULS lessons? I’ve got you covered! These task boxes use Symbolstix images to coordinate with the Unique Learning System (ULS) September Units on Government. Tasks Included:* Beginning Sounds* Unit Vocabulary* American Symbols* Counting 1-20* Pattern Completion* What Doesn't Belong?* Solve It- Addition to 10* Unit Letter Match-ups* Time to the Hour* Spelling Lists (Build It)BONUS FREEBIE
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PreK - 12th
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September Unique Learning Systems Task Box- Unit Letter Match (SPED, Autism)
Need extra independent tasks to pair with ULS lessons? I’ve got you covered! These task boxes use Symbolstix images to coordinate with the Unique Learning System (ULS) September Units on Government. This 20 page file includes letter match cards for the letters of study (Mm, Tt, Pp, Nn, Cc) in upper and lower case. There are 10 cards and a cover sheet. AND…. who doesn’t love a BONUS FREEBIE?! It’s included. Check out the bundle that includes all 12 sets!
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PreK - 12th
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Also included in:Â September Unique Learning Systems Task Boxes (SPED, Autism)
Ancient Mesopotamia - Escape the Ziggurat!
In this ready-to-use Escape Room, students will close read a three-page article and analyze nine images to solve riddles, answer questions, and ultimately crack the code to escape the ziggurat!This lesson includes:1. An article to close read, charting the Cradle of Civilization from the Sumer Period through King Hammurabi2. 7 Escape Room Tasks3. 8 Primary sources and 1 secondary source (images)4. Teacher Notes for quick implementation and easy instruction5. Answer Key for riddlesThe activity can
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6th - 12th
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Lawrence Kohlberg Heinz Dilemma
Lawrence Kohlberg
Heinz Dilemma
Morality
This activity allows students to use task cards to match Lawrence Kohlberg’s Stages of Moral Development with the definition of each stage. Then, after introducing and going over the Heinz Dilemma with the class, the students can use additional task cards to match up with each of Kohlberg’s stages in order to better understand the motivations behind WHY people make the decisions that they do.
• File Includes:
o Heinz Dilemma Scenario
o Lawrence Kohlberg
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9th - 12th, Higher Education
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Spatial Analysis Templates - AP Human Geography - Thinking Like A Geographer
Use these spatial analysis templates when your students are analyzing case studies, maps, images or data in AP Human Geography. Template #1 - ESPN Lens of Analysis Template #2 - Thinking Like a Geographer Spatial Analysis
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9th - 12th
American Imperialism Case Study Stations
This is an engaging inquiry-based activity that allows students to consider the effects of American Imperialism. I use this as culminating activity after studying American overseas expansion, the Spanish-American War, and changes to American foreign policy.
Students will complete centers considering American expansion and its effects in the following places: Hawaii, Guam, Puerto Rico, the Philippines, and Panama.
Students will read primary sources, secondary sources, maps, infographics, and cu
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9th - 12th
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Writing Task Cards, Bell Ringers, Exit Slips: QUOTES
Common Core Writing Task Cards, Bell Ringers, and Exit Slips: QUOTES - Adapted from my "A Year of Journal Prompts" (quote prompts) and "Writing and Mini Research Activities Using Quotes".
This IS included in my growing bundle: ALL of My Bell Ringer and Exit Slip Resources.
Using famous quotes can be an effective way to motivate your student writers. This collection of 84 task cards (each with a different quote) and 40 bell ringer/exit slips will provide you with a plethora of meaningful quotes
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8th - 12th
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Also included in:Â English Bell Ringer and Exit Slip Resources Mega Bundle
Ancient History Whodunnit Activity Bundle - Printable & Digital Game Options
***THIS PRODUCT HAS BEEN UPDATED WITH A GOOGLE SLIDES INTERACTIVE VERSION INCLUDED. REDOWNLOAD IF YOU HAVE IT ALREADY***Nothing like a good criminal investigation to liven up social studies class! Based off my popular CSI projects, I have created Whodunnits? The Whodunnits plan to focus on single content topics as opposed to units and will focus more on skill building than application. Every day can't be a project day, so Whodunnits can be an engaging out-of-their-seat activity to practice impor
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5th - 12th
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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
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