Every year all of our 5th graders participate in our school's Wax Museum program. It is seriously one of the highlights of the entire school year! Here's a run down of how things work: -Students choose a biography on a famous American. -They read the book and complete the American Hero book report. -They design a poster, create a costume, and memorize information about their hero. -For the Wax Museum, the students bring all their stuff and set up in the gym. -We invite our school, parents, community members, etc. to come see our program. -Our students become wax figures and when someone pushes their button they come to life and give information about their hero. Here are some pictures from this year's museum: Aren't these kids absolutely adorable in their costumes?! (I normally don't post pictures of my students on here, but luckily I'm friends with both of their moms and they gave me permission to post their cute faces.) And I think these two posters turned out AMAZING!! If you are interested, I have uploaded (and revamped) all of my resources and put them for sale in my Teachers Pay Teachers store. I have included everything you might need to get started and to implement this project in your own school. I'd love for you to check it out! Does your school do a Wax Museum?
I randomly came up with this idea during the last week of school. One of my reading groups had finished their book and project before any of the other groups had finished. Instead of giving them a new book (there was only one week left), I quickly created this template and told them to pick an event in history and research it. I had one boy choose the Vikings, someone else chose the atomic bomb, a girl wanted the great depression, and another student picked the Korean war. I loved that everyone had such diverse topics. After they got started, I saw some great learning take place in my classroom! Because it's an inquiry-based activity, they generated their own questions. And because they got to choose their own topic, they were excited and felt ownership over the project. I plan on using this next year as a fun fast finisher activity. This list is something I quickly generated. {I know it is not all inclusive - if I left something off that you really want me to add on, please leave me a comment.} This would be fun to hang up somewhere in the back of the classroom so fast finishers can work on a project whenever they want. CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD HISTORY DETECTIVES! * * * * * Want to hear some GREAT news? I am leaving next week on an 8 day history trip to Virginia where I get to study at the Colonial Williamsburg Teacher Institute! I also get to visit Jamestown and Yorktown. I'm so excited! I plan on posting lots of the things I learn, including pictures!
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As a 5th grade teacher I have always felt a tremendous responsibility to teach the American history curriculum to my students. In Utah, we cover all of American history from early Native Americans all the way to present day America! That is a lot of curriculum to cover in just one year - especially in schools where high stakes testing place such an emphasis in teaching literacy, math, and science. The sad thing I've noticed is that teachers just don't have time for social studies. With no accountability to teach it, limited resources, and lack of support, history can be a hard subject for a lot of elementary teachers. So why should we teach American History? Why is it so important? I'd like to offer 3 reasons why teaching social studies (especially American history) is so important in today's classrooms. 1. The future of America is in your classrooms! If they don't understand and appreciate America from a young age, how will they grow up to be participating citizens in our country? 2. Patriotism is important! If you don't teach students to respect our flag, stand and put their hand over their heart when they say the Pledge of Allegiance and about our Founding Fathers who sacrificed to make our country free... who will? (Parents hopefully, but what about those sweet kids who don't have great role models at home? How will they learn?) 3. We can learn a great deal about character, hard work, and sacrifice by studying the various events and famous people in history. Studying people like George Washington and Martin Luther King, Jr. will help give our students role models that they can look up to. Studying events like the Civil War or World War II can teach them about sacrifice and how hate can make the world a sad place. Our students need these lessons to teach them important life-long skills that will make them stronger and kinder American citizens. As a 5th grade teacher, I used to joke that my main goal in teaching my students was to make sure they never ended up on a TV game show looking like a complete fool for not knowing basic US history facts. Knowing who discovered America, what day the Declaration of Independence was signed, which country we fought in the Revolution, and the name of our recent past presidents (among other things) were goals I made sure my students could know and remember. As elementary teachers, we owe it to the Jr. High and High School teachers to take a bigger responsibility in ensuring our students are ready to enter the real world upon graduation. I believe that instilling a great love for our country needs to begin at a young age so students grow up loving our wonderful country, respecting the land we live on, and turn out to be productive and caring citizens in the community. For those of you who are lacking in resources to teach American History, I wanted to show you something I've made that I think could be a great help to you! Over the course of six years, and while finding successful ways to teach American history to my students, I developed this set of American History Graphic Organizers. It contains 40 graphic organizers that will help you teach all of the important events in history including Native Americans, Early Explorers, the Revolutionary War, Westward Expansion, Civil War, World War I and II, Civil Rights, and everything else in between, including U.S. Government and elections. Here is a little peek at the 40 organizers I have available. (For a complete list of topics click here: bit.ly/AmericanHistoryGO) I tried to include everything you would need, so I have added the following resources to help make this product easy to use and implement in your classroom. THE PACK INCLUDES: A Note to the Teacher Teacher Instructions Teaching Tips Teaching Ideas A pacing guide sample 4 student book cover page options -2 color choices -2 black and white choices (to save ink!) Table of Contents 40 graphic organizers People have asked me in the past what I like to use to teach American History. Here is a little peek into what I use and how I use these graphic organizers with my students: •Picture books or chapter books on the topic. •Primary source documents. (For example, let students read a copy of the actual Declaration of Independence or use real maps from the time period.) •Fun and interesting websites (either whole class on a projector, in a computer lab, or using iPads). •Videos or short documentaries on the topic. •Find free PowerPoint presentations in a google search or look on TeachersPayTeachers. (If needed, you could make your own.) •Learning groups - Divide up the topics for a day, have each group become an expert on that topic, then have them present their research to the class. •Guest speaker – If you can, invite someone in to teach about a topic. (For example, a grandparent who served in the Vietnam or Korean War would add a lot to a lesson!) •Hands-on projects. For some lessons you can have a fun activity prepared. (For example, when I teach about slavery, I try to bring in raw cotton and have my students experience what it’s like to pull out all the burrs.) Love these ideas? I'd love for you to pin one of these images to your Pinterest boards!
Learn how to use escape rooms in your social studies classroom to increase student engagement. Free social studies escape room is included!
Are you looking for a new way to get your students out of their seats and engaged with your social studies content? Gallery Walks are a great inquiry-based activity that is easy to set up and implement. Check out some of my tips for holding an effective Gallery Walk in your social studies class.What is a Gallery Walk?A gallery walk is a classroom-based activity where students silently walk around the classroom to view images that are placed on the wall, just like an art gallery or museum. Typica
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Do you need warm up ideas? I want to share 3 warm up ideas for social studies classes with you. These are engaging and easy to implement!
As a classroom teacher, you often get hit with that question – usually within the first week of school by a student who “Does Not Want To Be Here”… and truthfully, how do you answer
Using primary sources to teach history can be challenging. Use these valuable tips to bring more primary sources into your teaching.
I've read about choice menus forever, but never tried it until just recently. I decided to created a menu to use during social studies review when students finish with stations early or we have a few extra minutes in class. I introduced the menu a week ago and you would've thought I'd given my students gold! They were thrilled!! I asked if they'd seen a menu before and we talked about a fast food restaurant menu. Then I asked what they would buy if I told them they had $5 to spend at the fast food restaurant. We played around with that a few minutes and then, with great drama, I introduced the social studies menu. I told them they had 50 points to "spend" and they were beside themselves - some even wanted to know if they could "spend" more! As we were going over the points values for different items one students even said, "All the fun stuff costs more points, but the boring stuff doesn't cost as much." I really had to pinch myself! How did this happen?!?! We've had a week to work on the menus and they have really been successful so far. I've been amazed at the creativity my students have shown. It's also been really interesting seeing which people and time periods they choose to work with. I think this is a strategy I will try to use again. Maybe next time I'll try something with reading - after a class novel or maybe even for their self-selected texts. You can click on the picture to download a copy of the menu. It is specific to 4th Grade Virginia Studies, but it might be a good place to start for a menu specific to your social studies standards. I'm linking up with Holly from Fourth Grade Flipper for another great Tried it Tuesday linky.
This week we are linking up mentor texts for the subject of Social Studies! This can be any topic or even a book you use in Language Arts but it's based around your Social Studies curriculum!! We love to integrate! But, even though we do love to integrate, and I do have some books I want to share about that, I decided to link up some books that I used that were a quick attention-getter for my students! These are great books to use to introduce a new unit. I know with summer coming, we'll be looking for books we may want to purchase for next year, and I would recommend some of these! I love that these books highlight the hardships of these time periods, mainly because it is so interesting for the students. The illustrations are very eye-catching and interesting for them, too. (You can click on the pic and it will make it bigger so you can look closer) From You Wouldn't Want to Sail with Christopher Columbus (I used this to introduce our explorers unit!) The box with the bug in it has a caption that reads: "ITCHY? Ask other sailors to help comb the lice from your hair." Ugh, right? My students flipped out but wanted to hear more! This is from the same book. The caption next to the cheese says: "CHEESE is very smelly and full of worms." I won't even tell you what the other captions say about the food...blech!!! This one came from the book You Wouldn't Want to be an American Pioneer. The caption at the top right corner says: "Handy Hint- Trapped in the snow and starving? You will get a tiny amount of goodness by making a stew from your leather boot." Yum, yum. See, aren't these fun?!? At the end of the books, they leave the reader with a question: If you were given the chance again, would you really want to sail with Christopher Columbus? Had you known the hardships you would face, would you still have wanted to be an American colonist? So, I made a little sheet for students to be able to make their own "You Wouldn't Want to..." poster about what we are learning. I would want them to pick something small to focus on. Like, "You Wouldn't want to be a Soldier in the Continental Army" or "You wouldn't want to be a Native American when Columbus Landed". Here is the sheet- you can download it if it's something you might try! I wanted their poster to look like the illustrations in the book. :O) There are TONS of these "You Wouldn't want to" books...go check Amazon...I'm not kidding you! And, I'm breaking my own rules here, but I have some books that you might consider for your classroom library. These are called You Choose Books. It's a story and the reader comes to a point in the book where they have to make a decision for the character. I have the American Revolution book. First you get to choose your character. Your choices are the daughter of a militia captain, a young Connecticut patriot, or a loyalist. Then it tells you the page that your story starts on. From there, you have to make certain choices. For example, contact a spy network or go find your father. Then, for each choice, you have to go to a specific page. I think these are great for independent readers but you could do it as a class read aloud and then have students predict what will happen on certain paths that the character takes and explain the cause/effect relationships throughout the book. I have a certain difficult student in my class and he LOVES these books. He has read most of them, and it gives him something to share about when we are discussing some of these events in Social Studies. I definitely recommend these for your classroom library, if nothing else. Phew, could I give you anything more to chew on??? I hope you aren't on overload already because I want you to be able to read all of the other wonderful mentor texts that are being linked up!! (If you have never linked up before you can check HERE for more information.) I CAN'T WAIT to see what Must Read Social Studies Mentor Texts you link up! I'm super excited!!!! Amanda I promise this is the last time you will see this giveaway (for our Facebook fans)!! A winner will be chosen tomorrow! ;O) OUR ENTIRE SPARKLY PAPERS BUNDLE!! a Rafflecopter giveaway For the Linky- Please make yourself a SANDWICH! Please comment on the person who linked up before you and the person that linked up after you. I know everyone puts in a lot of time and effort to these posts and I want everyone to feel the love!!! (Haha, see, you're a sandwich...you know...because you are in the middle of the comments...do you get it?) ;O) Next week's topic- Language Arts (anything goes- reading, writing, or grammar!)
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Add some depth and complexity to your social studies lessons with this critical thinking choice board. Students must create complete three activities, completing a tic-tac-toe and passing through the center. If you print these at 90%, students can cut them out and glue them into their notebooks. I print the choice boards out on colored yardstick and laminate them for use at centers. I then run off a handful of each of the choices for students to choose from. For more choice boards, visit my store at: Choice Boards for Critical Thinking Blessings, The Curious Apple
This Social Studies Word Wall contains 24 words and is available in both a color version and a (mostly) black and white version. These easy-to-read cards will help your students understand key social studies vocabulary words and are ready to print and display in your classroom! Even better, there is an editable Google Slideshow included with all of the words and images, so you can edit the definitions and present the words to your students or post on Google Classroom! All cards include the word itself, the definition, and a historical image or photograph to help your visual learners better understand the word. You can print the cards out one per page or two per page. The cards that are printed one per page will be approximately 8 inches tall and 10 inches wide and the cards that are printed two per page will be approximately 5 inches tall and 8 inches wide (assuming you cut off the white border on the edge of the page). These words are color-coded based upon the discipline of social studies, and include history words, geography words, economics words, and civics words. The 24 words included are: History, Culture, Archaeology, Fossil, Artifact, Primary source, Secondary source, Economy, Scarcity, Profit, Trade, Wealth, Geography, Landforms, Climate, Environment, Region, Resources, Civics, Government, Constitution, Democracy, Republic, Tax Upon completing your purchase, you will click on the green button that says Add to Google Drive. Then, you will be able to find this resource in the TpT Purchases folder of your Google Drive account! If you have any technical issues, reach out to us at [email protected] or contact TPT. This word wall pairs great with our Social Studies Vocabulary Activities for Google Drive! Purchase them together in this bundle to save 20%! If you are looking for other word walls, specifically about Ancient Civilizations, check out our other versions: Ancient Civilizations Word Wall Bundle (7 sets!) Ancient Mesopotamia Word Wall Ancient Egypt Word Wall Ancient India Word Wall Ancient China Word Wall Ancient Greece Word Wall Ancient Rome Word Wall Keywords: social studies word wall, social studies word wall middle school, social studies vocabulary word wall
As a classroom teacher, you often get hit with that question – usually within the first week of school by a student who “Does Not Want To Be Here”… and truthfully, how do you answer
Do you need warm up ideas? I want to share 3 warm up ideas for social studies classes with you. These are engaging and easy to implement!
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As a 5th grade teacher I have always felt a tremendous responsibility to teach the American history curriculum to my students. In Utah, we cover all of American history from early Native Americans all the way to present day America! That is a lot of curriculum to cover in just one year - especially in schools where high stakes testing place such an emphasis in teaching literacy, math, and science. The sad thing I've noticed is that teachers just don't have time for social studies. With no accountability to teach it, limited resources, and lack of support, history can be a hard subject for a lot of elementary teachers. So why should we teach American History? Why is it so important? I'd like to offer 3 reasons why teaching social studies (especially American history) is so important in today's classrooms. 1. The future of America is in your classrooms! If they don't understand and appreciate America from a young age, how will they grow up to be participating citizens in our country? 2. Patriotism is important! If you don't teach students to respect our flag, stand and put their hand over their heart when they say the Pledge of Allegiance and about our Founding Fathers who sacrificed to make our country free... who will? (Parents hopefully, but what about those sweet kids who don't have great role models at home? How will they learn?) 3. We can learn a great deal about character, hard work, and sacrifice by studying the various events and famous people in history. Studying people like George Washington and Martin Luther King, Jr. will help give our students role models that they can look up to. Studying events like the Civil War or World War II can teach them about sacrifice and how hate can make the world a sad place. Our students need these lessons to teach them important life-long skills that will make them stronger and kinder American citizens. As a 5th grade teacher, I used to joke that my main goal in teaching my students was to make sure they never ended up on a TV game show looking like a complete fool for not knowing basic US history facts. Knowing who discovered America, what day the Declaration of Independence was signed, which country we fought in the Revolution, and the name of our recent past presidents (among other things) were goals I made sure my students could know and remember. As elementary teachers, we owe it to the Jr. High and High School teachers to take a bigger responsibility in ensuring our students are ready to enter the real world upon graduation. I believe that instilling a great love for our country needs to begin at a young age so students grow up loving our wonderful country, respecting the land we live on, and turn out to be productive and caring citizens in the community. For those of you who are lacking in resources to teach American History, I wanted to show you something I've made that I think could be a great help to you! Over the course of six years, and while finding successful ways to teach American history to my students, I developed this set of American History Graphic Organizers. It contains 40 graphic organizers that will help you teach all of the important events in history including Native Americans, Early Explorers, the Revolutionary War, Westward Expansion, Civil War, World War I and II, Civil Rights, and everything else in between, including U.S. Government and elections. Here is a little peek at the 40 organizers I have available. (For a complete list of topics click here: bit.ly/AmericanHistoryGO) I tried to include everything you would need, so I have added the following resources to help make this product easy to use and implement in your classroom. THE PACK INCLUDES: A Note to the Teacher Teacher Instructions Teaching Tips Teaching Ideas A pacing guide sample 4 student book cover page options -2 color choices -2 black and white choices (to save ink!) Table of Contents 40 graphic organizers People have asked me in the past what I like to use to teach American History. Here is a little peek into what I use and how I use these graphic organizers with my students: •Picture books or chapter books on the topic. •Primary source documents. (For example, let students read a copy of the actual Declaration of Independence or use real maps from the time period.) •Fun and interesting websites (either whole class on a projector, in a computer lab, or using iPads). •Videos or short documentaries on the topic. •Find free PowerPoint presentations in a google search or look on TeachersPayTeachers. (If needed, you could make your own.) •Learning groups - Divide up the topics for a day, have each group become an expert on that topic, then have them present their research to the class. •Guest speaker – If you can, invite someone in to teach about a topic. (For example, a grandparent who served in the Vietnam or Korean War would add a lot to a lesson!) •Hands-on projects. For some lessons you can have a fun activity prepared. (For example, when I teach about slavery, I try to bring in raw cotton and have my students experience what it’s like to pull out all the burrs.) Love these ideas? I'd love for you to pin one of these images to your Pinterest boards!
Looking for an engaging Social Studies activity that will also help your students practice finding text evidence? This passage and map resource is perfect to have on hand for your Social Studies classroom. Get this resource and more in my money-saving Social Studies Color by Number Bundle What teachers are saying about this resource: ❤️"I love how it reviewed the topics we had already been learning about in class. The kids loved working with a partner and the coloring. I want more of this!" ❤️"My class LOVED this activity. It gave them a chance to see what states were a part of the way and they got to asking a lot of good questions." ❤️"A great addition to my history curriculum. Easy to use and a great tool for the kids to reinforce their learning." This activity has students identify the following: Union States Confederate States Border States Territories Union Leaders Confederate Leaders Union Victories Confederate Victories Ideas for how to use: Early Finisher Partners Centers/Stations Test Prep Sub Activity Research Review Never miss a new resource! Click here to follow me
Do you want your upper elementary students to have meaningful morning work? These social studies writing prompts are perfect! This Day in History resource has a historical event for each day of August! Students will learn about an event in history and have a writing prompt, too! This Day in History has one page for students to complete every day in August. Students will read a fact about a historical event that happened that day in history. Then students will respond to a writing prompt with their opinion about this day in history. CLICK HERE TO PURCHASE THE GROWING BUNDLE AND SAVE 20%! This Day in History resource comes in both print and digital formats. This gives you a lot of choices! Paper - Students can read a fact, see an image, and respond to a writing prompt by writing on paper. Google Slides - Students can read a fact, see an image, and respond to a writing prompt by typing on Google Slides. PDF File - You can print the pages from the PDF file and display them in your classroom each day. PDF File - You can project the pages from the PDF file onto an interactive board/screen. Students can respond to a question that you create, or they can write about how they feel about the event. This Day in History resource includes: 31 printable pages with writing prompts (black and white) 31 Google Slides with writing prompts (color) 31 printable pages to display (color) There are many ways to use This Day in History in your classroom: Teach about historical events Opinion writing Social studies centers Reading instruction independent work reading centers homework leave for a substitute Bell ringer activity Morning work distance learning You may also like… → September This Day in History → October This Day in History → November This Day in History → This Day in History - The Growing Bundle ✅ Follow my store and get notifications about new resources and freebies! All new resources are 50% off for the first 24 hours! It pays to follow me! Want FREE TPT resources? Leave me feedback to earn points towards free purchases! Copyright © Monica Parsons. Permission to copy for single classroom/homeschool use only. Please purchase additional licenses if you intend to share this product.
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I randomly came up with this idea during the last week of school. One of my reading groups had finished their book and project before any of the other groups had finished. Instead of giving them a new book (there was only one week left), I quickly created this template and told them to pick an event in history and research it. I had one boy choose the Vikings, someone else chose the atomic bomb, a girl wanted the great depression, and another student picked the Korean war. I loved that everyone had such diverse topics. After they got started, I saw some great learning take place in my classroom! Because it's an inquiry-based activity, they generated their own questions. And because they got to choose their own topic, they were excited and felt ownership over the project. I plan on using this next year as a fun fast finisher activity. This list is something I quickly generated. {I know it is not all inclusive - if I left something off that you really want me to add on, please leave me a comment.} This would be fun to hang up somewhere in the back of the classroom so fast finishers can work on a project whenever they want. CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD HISTORY DETECTIVES! * * * * * Want to hear some GREAT news? I am leaving next week on an 8 day history trip to Virginia where I get to study at the Colonial Williamsburg Teacher Institute! I also get to visit Jamestown and Yorktown. I'm so excited! I plan on posting lots of the things I learn, including pictures!
A two page set of Social Studies assignment sheets that can be used for ANY chapter of any Social Studies textbook! I copy these onto 11 x 17 paper, so they are like a placemat. Students complete one or two per week as we read the text. The groups then meet to share and then I collect them. This...
As a secondary Social Studies teacher, the thought of anchor charts intimidated me – isn’t that an elementary thing? How would I use them in my class? Would they even work with teenagers? What would
Looking for fun and engaging kindergarten social studies resources? Check out the interactive notebook that your students will love!
Don't Decorate - Design! It is back to school time, and teachers all across the US are frantically putting up posters and bulletin boards to decorate their room before the first day of school. But instead
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This product can be used to display social studies topics and vocabulary on a focus wall or on a ring to be used in discussions and lessons. There are 250 words included. About the Social Studies Cards These cards provide a visual and definition for each word. The cards cover topics for K-2 Good citizenship Community Land and Water Map Skills Historic People Conservation Community Workers America Needs and Wants Government Historic Places Time in History Texas History Words/Definitions Included for: Abigail Adams Abraham Lincoln activities Aesop's Fables air Alamo Alexander Graham Bell allegiance Amelia Earhart America the Beautiful anthem appointment Art Teacher artifact authority figure ballot barbecue bathroom bay belief Benjamin Franklin biography body of water bus driver cafeteria cafeteria workers calendar canyon capitol building cardinal directions cave celebration choose Christopher Columbus chronology classroom clothing coach coal compas compass rose communication community conserve constitution Constitution Day consumer continent conversation crop day east Eleanor Roosevelt election electronic media equality exchange family far fireworks folktale food Francis Scott Key freedom future Garrett Morgan George Washington globe glossary good citizen goods government governor gulf George Washington Carver gym heritage hill historical figure holiday home human characteristics of a place human modification income index In God We Trust Independence Day interview Irma Rangel irrigation island janitor job John Hancock Jose Antonio Navarro journal justice key lake landform landmark law legend liberty bell library librarian Lincoln Memorial literature location map market mayor Memorial Day month monument motto mountain Mount Rushmore music music teacher nation natural resources Navajo Code Talkers near needs Nina north North America North Pole nurse oasis ocean oil oral sources orientation origin over parade park past patriot Paul Revere peninsula Pinta plain plant plateau pledge Pledge of Allegiance Pledge to the Texas Flag pond present President's Day principal producer public official purchase rain recreation region religion respect responsibility Richard Allen river Robert Fulton rule rural Sam Houston San Jacinto sand dune Santa Maria secretary security service shelter Sojourner Truth south South Pole Star Spangled Banner Statue of Liberty Stephen F. Austin suburb sun symbol table of contents tax teacher technology temperature Texas Texas flag Texas, Our Texas Theodore Roosevelt Thomas Edison Thurgood Marshall time timeline title on map today tomorrow trade tradition transportation truthfulness Uncle Sam under United States of America United States flag urban valley Veteran's Day veteran visual sources volcano vote wants water waterfall Washington Monument weather W.E.B. Dubois week west The White House wind work World War II Women Airforce Service Pilots year yesterday bald eagle recycle reuse reduce city state country self-control fairness community helper neighborhood Thomas Jefferson Martin Luther King, Jr. environment ecosystem interaction republic indivisible liberty Labor Day supply demand North America South America Europe Asia Africa Australia Antarctica Pacific Ocean Atlantic Ocean Indian Ocean Arctic Ocean Southern Ocean **This list contains some words related to Texas since I am a Texas girl, but you can let me know if there are other words you need. Not a guarantee that I will be able to add them fast, but I will try my best! Display cards on the board or on a focus wall to introduce and reinforce a unit of study. Related Products • Science Word Wall Cards K-2nd • Science Vocabulary Word Wall Cards 3rd-5th • Math Word Wall Cards Third Grade • Math Word Wall Cards K-2nd • Math Word Wall Cards Fourth Grade • Literacy Vocabulary Word Wall Cards K-2 Be sure to check the preview! Reagan Tunstall Tunstall's Teaching Tidbits
Using primary sources to teach history can be challenging. Use these valuable tips to bring more primary sources into your teaching.
Are you looking for a new way to get your students out of their seats and engaged with your social studies content? Gallery Walks are a great inquiry-based activity that is easy to set up and implement. Check out some of my tips for holding an effective Gallery Walk in your social studies class.What is a Gallery Walk?A gallery walk is a classroom-based activity where students silently walk around the classroom to view images that are placed on the wall, just like an art gallery or museum. Typica
