Social studies small group activities

Make your teaching life easier by checking out this Grade 4 Ontario social studies strand Early Societies to 1500 CE blog post! Learn how to help your students create an Early Societies artifact museum that will help them visualize and better understand the concepts studied in this unit. The artifacts are arranged by societies, and each display has a brief description explaining its significance.

Students engage in Social Studies through games, real life activities, reader's theatre and more! Find out more about using centers in the first grade classroom to make Social Studies more meaningful. DANCING INTO FIRST

Reading about the explorers to America and doing hands-on activities helps us too explore. This time, we're exploring the explorers!

Well it took almost a full school year, but thanks to a professional development I went to, I found a review technique ALL of my 7th graders were on board with. I call it “True, False, Fix.…

Integrating language arts skills into social studies can be tricky. There is already a lot of subject matter to cover without having to teach reading and writing skills as well! If a social studies teacher did not receive much language arts training within his or her certification program,

Teaching social studies is more of a challenge than ever before. Here are 5 key trends for 2024 to help your teaching be less stressful and more impactful for your students.

If you are like me, you are always looking for new and exciting ways to engage your students in Social Studies. I try at least one new strategy a year to expand my own teaching

Learn how to use social studies stations in the Middle & High School classroom to increase student engagement. Includes link for a free station activity!

As teachers {esp. k-3} we know how important "Making Words" activities are for our students. The manipulation of the letters and exploration of letter sounds and patterns are skills that all students need {and enjoy}. Which brings me to my next point...... My school is doing a huge "paper cut down" this next year and so we've been brainstorming ideas on how to save paper. Making words takes a new page of paper each time you do it! This folder cuts down on a lot of paper and is easy to make…

Find engaging ways to teach social studies. From timelines to wax museums, explore creative activities that bring social studies to life.

In this post, I share seven different topics to bring meaning to February science and social studies standards.

Floating City - STEM Challenge for Kids. Can you build a city that floats and doesn't fall down? This is a fun engineering activity for hot summer days. #stem #preschool #kindergarten #summer

Bring your social studies curriculum to life with fun, engaging and interactive activities for students. Your third, fourth and fifth grade students will love creating their own notebook filled with social studies vocabulary, dates, people and places. Find out how to use #interactivenotebooks in the classroom to increase student engagement and save you time. #Elementary #UpperElementary #SocialStudies #INB #3rdGrade #4thGrade #5thGrade

In third grade our first unit for social studies is a fun one.....geography. The kids get very excited and love to start exploring maps and globes. Take a peek at a few of my favorite classroom activities for geography. I start the year off by introducing interactive notebooks. I explain to my students that these are notebooks that will keep track of our ideas, discoveries and information to help us grow. These are unique in the fact that they are never truly complete, the students learn…

Plenty of interactive ideas and activities to teach landforms for kids. Find videos, worksheets and even experiments to help.

Your students are going to LOVE using this Then and Now sort freebie! Perfect for working on social studies skills in your early learning classroom.

A collaborative blog that shares teaching ideas and resources geared to third grade teachers and students.

Well, it is time for the second installment of my “An Apple a Day” Linky Party. This week’s topic is… Classroom Management! Before I was hired for my current position, I worked as a substitute for several schools in my district. This allowed me to see many different types of classroom management practices, from […]

A hands-on approach to building your community. Children love constructing and being able to walk through their community. Real photos help teach mapping and community buildings.