Social Studies
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Students try to Pass an Amendment to the US Constitution History Class Activity
$1.00Your goal: Write an amendment to the Constitution that your classmates would also approve.$1.00 -
USA Make a Map! United States Interactive Bulletin Board Geography Activity
$19.99Build a giant wall map of the USA!Assign each student a state. Then piece the United States together, state-by-state on your bulletin board. Finished map is HUGE: the contiguous 48 states measure...$19.99 -
5th Grade Homework Choice Boards for All Year
$2.50Let’s be honest - many of us wouldn’t give homework if we didn’t have to...kids need time to be kids! These choice boards are made to provide fun, engaging homework activities that won’t$2.50 -
Primary Source Document and Image Analysis
$1.50Using primary source images and documents is a great way to get your students engaged in learning about history! Even elementary students can benefit from this strategy. This product includes: 2...$1.50 -
Energy and Economic Development
$5.00Content: - The importance of Energy as a driver of economic development. - Global trends and patterns of energy use. - An overview of the sources of energy used by humans and their individual...$5.00 -
Water Scarcity
$5.50Content: - The importance of water for humans and economic development. - Water sources (aquifers, boreholes, reservoirs, desalination, infrastructure.) - How countries at different levels of...$5.50 -
Apartheid in South Africa Reading (SS7H1, SS7H1c)
$1.50Your students will love learning about how the the creation and end of apartheid in South Africa with this engaging, no prep reading activity packet! This is perfect for adding literacy to your...$1.50 -
Benjamin Franklin and the Kite - National Electricity Day
$5.00Dig deeper into the facts surrounding Benjamin Franklin and his famous experiment in kite flying with this Informational Text and QR code Biography activity. You might be surprised at the truth...$5.00 -
Exploration & Colonization: The 3 G's of Motivation
$3.50This product was designed to help introduce three main sources for motivation, the 3 G's (God, Gold, and Glory - aka the 3 F's: fame, faith,$3.50 -
Ballot or the Bullet: Primary Source Speech Analysis & Follow-up Activities
$4.00This product has been designed with the intent to analyze the speech "Ballot or the Bullet" by Malcolm X. This product includes the following: PDF text of the entire speech$4.00 -
13 Colonies Bingo Review Game STAAR Review
$4.00Are you in a review game rut? I had played Quizlet Live, Kahoot and others so much, my students were tired of them. One day a student asked, “Can we play BINGO?” – and this product is the result. 13...$4.00 -
World War I Reading Unit and Worksheets
$10.00This Reading Unit on World War I can be used to replace a textbook or supplement a unit on World War I. Many resources are included with this product: Timeline: A timeline of events preceding,...$10.00