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5th Grade Yearlong Social Studies Activities: Aligns with Studies Weekly
By Colleen Burdette
Engaging Activities for 5th Grade Social Studies:
These activities keep students engaged throughout the year as they study United States History. Although these activities are aligned with Studies Weekly, each activity can be completed without Studies Weekly. "Missing" weeks are due to Studies Weekly assigning inquiries once per unit.
What's included:
Beginning of the Year Escape Room:
Inquiry: How to Research (Weeks 1-4)
North America Before European Contact (Weeks 6-8)
European Exploration and Colonization (Weeks 10-18)
The American Revolution (Weeks 19-26)
Creating a New Nation (Weeks 27-31)
End of the Year Escape Room
Aligns with Indiana Standards: 5.H.1, 5.H.2, 5.H.3, 5.H.5, 5.H.6, 5.H.7, 5.H.8, 5.H.9, 5.H.10, 5.H.11, 5.H.12, 5.H.13, 5.H.14, 5.H.15, 5.H.16, 5.H.17, 5.C.1, 5.C.2, 5.C.3, 5.C.5, 5.C.7, 5.G.1, 5.G.2, 5.G.7, 5.E.1, 5.E.2, 5.E.3, 5.E.5.
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How is this bundle useful:
Geography, Map Skills Bundle For Middle School & High School + 2 Freebies
By Geography & Math Made Easy
Purchase this Bundle; Save Planning Time and Money!
As Teachers, We Are Always Trying to Carve Out Time for Our Family and Ourselves for Self Care. So Many Demands; So Little Time.
Includes 6 Lesson + 2 Freebies
This Bundle is Worth $30.45 if Purchased Individually. (Now $25 | 20% Discount)
On each ready-to-use lesson, I spend no less than 10 hours planning, developing, and tweaking to make it high-quality.
These lessons are centered around map reading skills and include:
(1) Map Projections
(2) Using A Map Scale
(3) Creating a Neighborhood Map for the Understanding of Basic Map Reading.
(4) Reading Latitude and Longitude (Absolute Location)
(5) Exploring and Creating Populations Density Maps
(6) Creating a Cartogram to Depict Population Density
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European Exploration and Colonization: 5th Grade Studies Weekly Weeks 10-18
By Colleen Burdette
Support your Studies Weekly Study:
These activities allow for deeper understanding and engagement into the themes studied in the 5th Grade Studies Weekly. These activities encourage students to present information in creative ways. Students also get involved in activities which lead to individual experience and group discussion.
Projects are designed to present information or respond to information. Reflection questions require students to combine their experiences with their knowledge and to think beyond what they already know. These questions help students delve into a new depth of knowledge.
These activities align with Indiana Social Studies standards: 5.E.1, 5.E.2. 5.E.5, 5.E.8, 5.H.2, 5.H.5, 5.H.6, 5.H.11.
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World Cultures Physical Geography of SE Asia Passage & Activities- NO PREP!
By Holly O'Hara
This passage and assortment of activities are an engaging and accessible way for your students to strengthen their knowledge of the physical geography of Southeast Asia, including countries such as Thailand, Vietnam, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, the Philippines.
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I do my best to make sure every product is free of typos or mistakes, but please feel free to message me with any corrections or concerns.
World Cultures Human Geography of Southeast Asia Passage & Activities - NO PREP!
By Holly O'Hara
This passage and assortment of activities are an engaging and accessible way for your students to strengthen their knowledge of the human geography of Southeast Asia, including countries such as Thailand, Vietnam, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, the Philippines.
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I do my best to make sure every product is free of typos or mistakes, but please feel free to message me with any corrections or concerns.
Intro to Social Studies Bootcamp | Social Studies Skills Practice - NO PREP!
By Holly O'Hara
Get your students excited about Social Studies!
I designed this to give students a refresher on Social Studies skills at the beginning of the year but this could easily be given to a substitute for kids to work on, or a good practice activity for any point in the year!
This activity contains SEVEN worksheets:
This would realistically work for any middle school grade level. This could be given to students as an independent work packet, split up over multiple days as warm-ups, or used as a direct teach tool. Whatever works best for you!
World Cultures The Regions of Canada Webquest and Choice Board - NO PREP!
By Holly O'Hara
This webquest is accessible way for your students to strengthen their knowledge of the physical geography, provinces, and territories of Canada!
This activity can be completed digitally via Google Slides as long as students have internet access. You may also print the question pages and provide the links to students in a method of your choice (links provided in a list on the answer key).
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Geography, Map Projections: Which Map Would You Use? Google Slide + Powerpoint
By Geography & Math Made Easy
Teaching map projections can be challenging. This lesson is an easy way to give students the foundation they need to understand what map projections are and how each has its own level of accuracies and distortions based on the size and shape of land masses and measurement/distance between points. This works very well with my students and is a fund group cooperative activity that requires higher-level thinking skills and or helps students develop higher-level thinking skills by analyzing various map projections, and determining their accuracies and distortions.
LESSON: MAP PROJECTIONS: WHICH ONE WOULD YOU USE?
GRADE LEVEL: 7-12th
TIME FRAME: 90-120 MINUTES (TWO 60-MINUTE CLASS PERIODS)
TYPE OF ACTIVITY: GROUP COOPERATION ACTIVITY
NOTE: ADJUST MARGINS UNDER PAGE SETUP BEFORE PRINTING or SCALE TO FIT TO AVOID GRAPHICS FROM BEING CUT OFF.
OBJECTIVE:
MATERIALS:
PREPARATION:
CLASSROOM SETUP:
INTRODUCTION: (10 minutes)
PROCEDURE: (Group Reading Activity—30 minutes)
Divide the class into groups. Provide each group with the Instruction sheet: Map It! As well as a rubric, poster board, crayons, colored pencils, markers, glue, a ruler and scissors. Explain the instructions to the class based on the Instruction Sheet: Map It. Review what the group needs to present during their group presentation using the grading rubric.
CLOSURE / EVALUATION: (20-30 minutes)
Students will present as a group their findings regarding their map projection.
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World Cultures Human Geography of the USA Passage & Activities- NO PREP!
By Holly O'Hara
This passage and assortment of activities are an engaging and accessible way for your students to strengthen their knowledge of the human geography of the United States of America!
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I do my best to make sure every product is free of typos or mistakes, but please feel free to message me with any corrections or concerns.
World Cultures Human Geography of Canada Passage & Activities- NO PREP!
By Holly O'Hara
This passage and assortment of activities are an engaging and accessible way for your students to strengthen their knowledge of the human geography of Canada!
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I do my best to make sure every product is free of typos or mistakes, but please feel free to message me with any corrections or concerns.
World Cultures Human Geography of Latin America Passage & Activities - NO PREP!
By Holly O'Hara
This passage and assortment of activities are an engaging and accessible way for your students to strengthen their knowledge of the human geography of Latin America!
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I do my best to make sure every product is free of typos or mistakes, but please feel free to message me with any corrections or concerns.
Where is the Declaration of Independence? States + Capitals Practice - NO PREP!
By Holly O'Hara
This activity is an engaging and accessible way for your students to practice and strengthen their knowledge of American geography as well as states and capital cities!
Students will be tasked with identifying a mystery state that can be only be solved through the process of elimination. They will be prompted to use a political map of America to solve various puzzles and eliminate 49 states until they have only one left, thus solving the mystery.
This is a great way to review states and capital cities and basic map skills. The print version requires that students have access to a physical map but there is a link to a map in the digital version.
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I do my best to make sure every product is free of typos or mistakes, but please feel free to message me with any corrections or concerns.
World Cultures Human Geography of Southwest Asia Passage & Activities - NO PREP!
By Holly O'Hara
This passage and assortment of activities are an engaging and accessible way for your students to strengthen their knowledge of the human geography of Southwest Asia, including countries such as Saudi Arabia, Iran, Iraq, Israel, and Turkey.
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I do my best to make sure every product is free of typos or mistakes, but please feel free to message me with any corrections or concerns.
World Cultures The Physical Geography of Europe Passage & Activities - NO PREP!
By Holly O'Hara
This passage and assortment of activities are an engaging and accessible way for your students to strengthen their knowledge of the physical geography of Europe!
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I do my best to make sure every product is free of typos or mistakes, but please feel free to message me with any corrections or concerns.
World Cultures Physical Geography of Canada Passage & Activities- NO PREP!
By Holly O'Hara
This passage and assortment of activities are an engaging and accessible way for your students to strengthen their knowledge of the physical geography of Canada!
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I do my best to make sure every product is free of typos or mistakes, but please feel free to message me with any corrections or concerns.
World Cultures The Human Geography of Europe Passage and Activities - NO PREP!
By Holly O'Hara
This passage and assortment of activities are an engaging and accessible way for your students to strengthen their knowledge of the human geography of Europe!
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I do my best to make sure every product is free of typos or mistakes, but please feel free to message me with any corrections or concerns.
World Cultures Physical Geography of Latin America Passage & Activities-NO PREP!
By Holly O'Hara
This passage and assortment of activities are an engaging and accessible way for your students to strengthen their knowledge of the physical geography of Latin America!
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I do my best to make sure every product is free of typos or mistakes, but please feel free to message me with any corrections or concerns.
World Cultures Physical Geography of the USA Passage & Activities- NO PREP!
By Holly O'Hara
This passage and assortment of activities are an engaging and accessible way for your students to strengthen their knowledge of the physical geography of the United States of America!
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I do my best to make sure every product is free of typos or mistakes, but please feel free to message me with any corrections or concerns.
World Cultures Physical Geography of North Africa Passage & Activities- NO PREP!
By Holly O'Hara
This passage and assortment of activities are an engaging and accessible way for your students to strengthen their knowledge of the physical geography of North Africa, including countries such as Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, and Egypt.
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I do my best to make sure every product is free of typos or mistakes, but please feel free to message me with any corrections or concerns.
World Cultures Intro to Human Geography Passage & Activities- NO PREP!
By Holly O'Hara
This passage and assortment of activities are an engaging and accessible way for your students to strengthen their knowledge of the basic concepts of human geography!
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I do my best to make sure every product is free of typos or mistakes, but please feel free to message me with any corrections or concerns.