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Social Studies Teaching
Materials (6 products)
 Best
of the Mailbox: Social Studies
Grade Level: Kindergarten -
First Grade
Price: $14.95
Product #: 2060937
Sample
Pages
Reinforce key social studies skills and concepts with these teacher-tested
ideas and student reproducibles. Use these popular units to integrate
social studies across all areas of your curriculum and increase your students'
understanding of key topics.
You know social studies is a fascinating topic, but how do you get your
students exited about it? This teaching resource can do the trick! Inside
this easy-to-use resource, you'll find the best social studies units selected
from The Mailbox magazine's kindergarten and primary editions.
The activities and ready-to-use reproducibles inside will build your
students' understanding of the social studies topics you must teach, reinforcing
a variety of important skills and concepts along the way. No more searching
for effective, easy-to-do (and fun!) activities to supplement your social
studies curriculum. Now they're all here in one handy book !
Inside you'll find the following:
- social studies-based thematic units with across-the-curriculum activities
- center ideas
- fun, skill-based games
- songs
- cooking activities
- arts-and-crafts ideas
- independent and small-group activities
- literature links
- student reproducibles
- timesaving patterns
Units include:
- All About Me
- Building Character
- Family
- Homes
- Careers
- Maps and Geography
- Transportation
- Patriotism
- Holidays and Celebrations
112 pages
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 Best
of The Mailbox: Social Studies
Grade Level: Second - Third Grade
Price: $14.95
Product #: 2060938
Sample
Pages
Reinforce key social studies skills and concepts with these teacher-tested
ideas and student reproducibles. Use these popular units to integrate
social studies across all areas of your curriculum and increase your students'
understanding of key topics.
You know social studies is a fascinating topic, but how do you get your
students exited about it? This teaching resource can do the trick! Inside
this easy-to-use resource, you'll find the best social studies units selected
from The Mailbox magazine's kindergarten and primary editions.
The activities and ready-to-use reproducibles inside will build your
students' understanding of the social studies topics you must teach, reinforcing
a variety of important skills and concepts along the way. No more searching
for effective, easy-to-do (and fun!) activities to supplement your social
studies curriculum. Now they're all here in one handy book !
Inside you'll find the following:
- social studies-based thematic units with across-the-curriculum activities
- center ideas
- fun, skill-based games
- songs
- cooking activities
- arts-and-crafts ideas
- independent and small-group activities
- literature links
- student reproducibles
- timesaving patterns
- easy-to-do projects
Units include:
- Communities
- Building Character
- Geography
- The United States
- Black History
- Economics
- Rx for Earth
- 'Tis the Season for...Grandparents
- Christmas Celebrations Around the World
112 pages
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Social Studies
Grade Level: First, Second, Third Grade
Price: $15.99
Product #: 1002062
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Use this teaching resource to enhance your social studies program and
give your students something fun to do and think about every single day.
This book contains calendar-related lessons for every week of the year.
Each lesson includes five activities-a week of instant social studies!
As an extra bonus each lesson contains a language arts component to supplement
your regular curriculum.
This resource can be used in two ways: by date (the lessons are in chronological
order) or by subject (consult the index).
This teaching resource will respond to several needs of teachers. It
will provide fresh material for experienced teachers and materials for
the entire calendar year-a necessity in the increasingly popular year-round
school and one that is not addressed by traditional curriculum resources.
Pages: 160
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Studies Through the Year
Grade Level: Second, Third, Fourth Grade
Price: $25.99
Product #: 1002467
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This book provides a wealth of ideas to link social studies with literature,
writing, math, music, creative arts, and technology. The ready-to-use
activities, sample weekly schedule, and detailed instructions for the
activities reduce the time needed for planning and preparation.
Each section of the book is arranged around a social studies theme. A
weekly activities calendar will help teachers in planning their lessons.
This calendar can be sent home along with the parent letter to keep parents
informed of the children's social studies learning experiences.
The overview pages in each theme unit give complete, easy-to-follow instructions
for carrying out the theme during the week. These pages contain suggestions
for the following areas of study:
- Theme Activities - ways to introduce the theme and generate
interest, including discussion ideas
- Curriculum Connections - activities which provide a link
to other subject areas such as math and technology
- Literature Time - book selections which feature the theme
- Language Arts - reading and writing activities to enhance
and extend the theme
- Creative Arts - a variety of activities to encourage creative
expression such as music, art, and cooking
In addition to the weekly chart and day-by-day overview plans, each theme
section includes the following: a theme sign, a parent letter, a list
of journal topics, a mini-book or idea for a class book, and a variety
of activity pages. These materials will enable teachers to carry out the
theme with minimum preparation time.
The appendix contains other useful materials such as a theme-related
bibliography, maps, a journal format, and samples of technology projects.
Pages: 384
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Social Studies Literacy Activities
Grade Level: First - Second Grade
Price: $21.99
Product #: 1003172
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A wonderful addition to any first or second grade social studies curriculum.
This book was created especially for the busy teachers of young students.
The hands-on, developmentally appropriate activities are based on the
latest social studies standards and are sure to provide your students
with fun-filled learning experiences. The activities are full color and
will add some spice to the regular classroom materials.
The contents in the book provide a variety of ways to reinforce social
studies concepts and skills while maintaining student interest. The activities
are easy to implement with little or no preparation at all.
The activities are meant to support and be a resource for teachers as
they teach these content skills. The activities provide review and practice
in the following areas of social studies:
- reasons that Americans celebrate certain national holidays
- important buildings, statues, monuments, and symbols that are tied
with state and national history
- picture timelines
- beginning, middle, and end of historical stories
- key figures and roles they played in national history
- comparisons of items from now and long ago
- the importance and the reasons for rules and that when rules are not
followed, consequences will follow
- the political system of the U.S. and opportunity for participation
- the many types of transportation used to move people and products
- the origin of food items found in the local stores by tracing their
routes from place of origin
- the effects of specialization and interdependence of people
- the use of a map key to interpret symbols and cardinal directions
to locate place
- names and locations of continents, countries in North America, oceans,
and the United States
Each activity is set up with an easy-to-follow lesson. First, each lesson
states the objective or learning skill and the materials needed. Most
of the materials are provided inside this book. Next, the lesson outlines
in what kinds of groupings the activity can be implemented. Most of the
activities can be adapted in multiple ways and can be "custom tailored".
They can be implemented as a whole class lesson, small group, partners,
independently, or in a center. The activities can also be adapted for
a variety of student levels.
Suggestions are listed in the actual directions of the activity or they
are suggested in the "Ideas" section. The "Ideas"
section contains many helpful hints on such things as storage of materials
or ideas to either enhance or extend the activity. Overall, the book is
an asset to any first or second grade teacher.
Pages: 176
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Year of Themes: Science & Social Studies
Grade Level: First - Second Grade
Price: $11.99
Product #: 1003715
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Familiar stories and rhymes immerse children in written
and spoken language while building content area skills.
The children will become immersed in print and use their
developing language and social studies/science skills
in purposeful activities. Students will learn phonetic
sounds, hear rhyme and rhythm, and begin to understand
language structure and scientific concepts.
This teacher resource is divided into nine units-one
for each month of the school year (see sample pages for
complete table of contents). Each segment is based on
a theme and has a literature selection and math activities.
Each segment in this book is organized to include some
or all of the following activities:
-
lesson plans
- related literature suggestions
- guest speaker suggestions
- learning centers
- scientific activities/demonstrations
- journal writing ideas
- exposure to nonfiction text
- reproducible little books
- science/social studies games
- group discussion
- art projects
- story-related visual aids
- drama activities
- scientific experiments
Listed below are the objectives and skills that are taught in
this teaching book:
Social Studies
- Recognize school rules and their importance
- Identify traits and characteristics that make each of us unique
- Identify friendship traits
- Identify and locate holidays on a calendar
- Describe the jobs that people do in the community
Science
- Identify the five senses and what they do
- Identify basic earth materials
- Perform simple comparison and experiments
- Identify how the weather affects daily activities
Pages: 96
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