Social Studies
Featured Products
$14.99
Topics include Manners, Emotions, Friendship and Empathy. Includes 4 board games, 6 counters, spinner, and die. 2–4 players.
$8.49
The perfect paper for “All About Me” crafts. 8 flesh tones for self-portraits, puppets and paper dolls.
Features:
- 48 sheets, 8.5 x 11”
- 8 skin tone colors
- Acid-free
- Idea guide
My Neighborhood Book Set, Set of 5 books
$34.75
Neighborhoods come in all shapes and sizes. This carefully leveled series explores the people, places, jobs, and other important features of a neighborhood. 24 pages each. Set of 5 books.
Smart Poly® Double-Sided Learning Mat, Declaration of Independence
$3.99
Smart Poly® Learning Mat 12"x17", Double-Sided, Declaration of Independence. Learn about American History and the signers of the Declaration of Independence. Heavy duty double-sided surface for fun and colorful learning on both sides. Write-on/ wipe-off surface. Use with dry erase or water based markers and washable crayons. Each side is an interactive lesson.
$9.99
From KWLs to “foldables” and more, the Oregon Interactive Notebook: A Hands-On Approach to Learning About Our State! resource includes activities that will have students exploring their state's history, geography, people, government, economics, and symbols in a whole new way! A true-time saver, the Oregon Interactive Notebook: A Hands-On Approach to Learning About Our State! includes ready-to-use pages and instructions that make state-studies fun and successful for the whole class.
The Oregon Interactive Notebook: A Hands-On Approach to Learning About Our State! is more than just a notebook for taking notes—it's a way of collecting and thinking about information. The Oregon Interactive Notebook: A Hands-On Approach to Learning About Our State! helps students become creative, independent, and reflective thinkers, readers, and writers. Students learn to express their own ideas and apply skills learned in class. The Oregon Interactive Notebook: A Hands-On Approach to Learning About Our State! gives teachers ready-to-use pages, templates, instructions, writing prompts, and more, making it easy to start using their interactive notebooks today!
The Oregon Interactive Notebook: A Hands-On Approach to Learning About Our State! is more than just a notebook for taking notes—it's a way of collecting and thinking about information. The Oregon Interactive Notebook: A Hands-On Approach to Learning About Our State! helps students become creative, independent, and reflective thinkers, readers, and writers. Students learn to express their own ideas and apply skills learned in class. The Oregon Interactive Notebook: A Hands-On Approach to Learning About Our State! gives teachers ready-to-use pages, templates, instructions, writing prompts, and more, making it easy to start using their interactive notebooks today!
WHY USE INTERACTIVE NOTEBOOKS?
Interactive Notebooks are great for students!
- Building an Interactive Notebook helps students build organization skills as they take responsibility for their learning resources.
- The Interactive Notebook provides students with an outlet to apply the knowledge they gain in ways that express their own ideas and creativity.
- Guided writing activities incorporated into an Interactive Notebook help your students develop into independent, creative, reflective thinkers.
- And, once completed, an Interactive Notebook becomes a comprehensive and engaging review tool to help your students master content and prepare for tests.
Interactive Notebooks are great for teachers!
- You can easily customize your instruction.
- You direct the learning process and pace.
- You determine where to dig deeper...and when and where to add pizzazz!
- You choose which projects to use as instruction, which projects to use as reinforcement, which projects to use as independent practice, and which projects to use as assessments.
- You can supplement activities with your own texts and projects.
- And, you meet the unique needs of your students—in each and every year!
A true time-saver!
- Step-by-step teacher instructions
- Ready-to-use, reproducible pages
- Writing and reflection prompts
- Student letter
- Supply lists
- Rubric
- And more!
This book is reproducible and has 68 pages.
South Carolina Interactive Notebook
$9.99
From KWLs to “foldables” and more, the South Carolina Interactive Notebook: A Hands-On Approach to Learning About Our State! resource includes activities that will have students exploring their state's history, geography, people, government, economics, and symbols in a whole new way! A true-time saver, the South Carolina Interactive Notebook: A Hands-On Approach to Learning About Our State! includes ready-to-use pages and instructions that make state-studies fun and successful for the whole class.
The South Carolina Interactive Notebook: A Hands-On Approach to Learning About Our State! is more than just a notebook for taking notes—it's a way of collecting and thinking about information. The South Carolina Interactive Notebook: A Hands-On Approach to Learning About Our State! helps students become creative, independent, and reflective thinkers, readers, and writers. Students learn to express their own ideas and apply skills learned in class. The South Carolina Interactive Notebook: A Hands-On Approach to Learning About Our State! gives teachers ready-to-use pages, templates, instructions, writing prompts, and more, making it easy to start using their interactive notebooks today!
The South Carolina Interactive Notebook: A Hands-On Approach to Learning About Our State! is more than just a notebook for taking notes—it's a way of collecting and thinking about information. The South Carolina Interactive Notebook: A Hands-On Approach to Learning About Our State! helps students become creative, independent, and reflective thinkers, readers, and writers. Students learn to express their own ideas and apply skills learned in class. The South Carolina Interactive Notebook: A Hands-On Approach to Learning About Our State! gives teachers ready-to-use pages, templates, instructions, writing prompts, and more, making it easy to start using their interactive notebooks today!
WHY USE INTERACTIVE NOTEBOOKS?
Interactive Notebooks are great for students!
- Building an Interactive Notebook helps students build organization skills as they take responsibility for their learning resources.
- The Interactive Notebook provides students with an outlet to apply the knowledge they gain in ways that express their own ideas and creativity.
- Guided writing activities incorporated into an Interactive Notebook help your students develop into independent, creative, reflective thinkers.
- And, once completed, an Interactive Notebook becomes a comprehensive and engaging review tool to help your students master content and prepare for tests.
Interactive Notebooks are great for teachers!
- You can easily customize your instruction.
- You direct the learning process and pace.
- You determine where to dig deeper...and when and where to add pizzazz!
- You choose which projects to use as instruction, which projects to use as reinforcement, which projects to use as independent practice, and which projects to use as assessments.
- You can supplement activities with your own texts and projects.
- And, you meet the unique needs of your students—in each and every year!
A true time-saver!
- Step-by-step teacher instructions
- Ready-to-use, reproducible pages
- Writing and reflection prompts
- Student letter
- Supply lists
- Rubric
- And more!
This book is reproducible and has 68 pages.
Primary Sources, World Religions
$12.99
The World Religions Primary Sources is a pack of 20 primary sources. Each primary source pack includes historical documents, maps, photographs, political cartoons, lithographs, diagrams, letters in a mix of color and black-and-white, and sepia finishes and is printed on sturdy 8.5" X 11" cardstock.
The World Religions Primary Sources are just what teachers need to help students learn how to analyze primary sources in order to meet Common Core State Standards!
Students participate in active learning by creating their own interpretations of history using historical documents. Students make observations, generate questions, organize information and ideas, think analytically, write persuasively or informatively, and cite evidence to support their opinion, hypotheses, and conclusions. Students learn how to integrate and evaluate information to deepen their understanding of historical events. As a result, students experience a more relevant and meaningful learning experience.
Your students will:
The World Religions Primary Sources are just what teachers need to help students learn how to analyze primary sources in order to meet Common Core State Standards!
Students participate in active learning by creating their own interpretations of history using historical documents. Students make observations, generate questions, organize information and ideas, think analytically, write persuasively or informatively, and cite evidence to support their opinion, hypotheses, and conclusions. Students learn how to integrate and evaluate information to deepen their understanding of historical events. As a result, students experience a more relevant and meaningful learning experience.
Your students will:
- think critically and analytically, interpret events, and question various perspectives of history.
- participate in active learning by creating their own interpretations instead of memorizing facts and a writer's interpretations.
- integrate and evaluate information provided in diverse media formats to deepen their understanding of historical events.
- experience a more relevant and meaningful learning experience.
- Sculpture of Hindu gods Vishnu, Shiva, and Brahma - 10th century
- Statue of boy Buddha rising up from the lotus flower - the lotus represents purity and enlightenment - 14th century
- Portrait of Martin Luther, German theologian and religious reformer who started the Protestant Reformation in 1517 - portrait dated 1528
- Map of the world, showing how "Christians, Mahometans, and Pagans" correspond to the civilized world - 1821
- Painting depicting Muslim prayer in Cairo, Egypt - 1865
- Photograph showing Muslim washing his feet before prayer - 1865
- Painting titled Jews Praying in the Synagogue on Yom Kippur by Maurycy Gottlieb - holiest day of the year in Judaism - 1878
- Photograph of Hagia Eirene, Greek Eastern Orthodox Church in Istanbul, Turkey - the first church commissioned by Roman emperor Constantine I in Constantinople - photo circa 1900
- Painting depicting ordination to the priesthood in the Roman Catholic religion - 1922
- Photograph of U.S. Navy chaplain preparing to baptize a soldier in Iraq - baptism is a religious rite in the Christian religion - 2004
- Photograph of a 65-foot-tall concrete statue of the Hindu deity Shiva in Bangalore, India - 2006
- A Jewish man praying at the Western Wall in Jerusalem, Israel - 2009
- Illustration of layout of a Shinto shrine - 2009
- Photograph of children studying the Quran in Senegal - 2006
- Photograph of St. Peter's Basilica in Vatican City - a symbol of the Catholic church and the largest church in the world - 2006
- Photograph of Afghan army general (center) with a group of female Afghan National Police members - all women wear hijabs - 2012
- Photograph of Hindu bride in Nepal - she wears traditional dress, jewelry, and body art - 2012
- Photograph of statue of the Yellow and Red Gods in Henan Province, China - the Han Chinese claim to be descendants of these gods - 2013
- Photograph of young Buddhist monks in Cambodia - 2013
- Photograph of Sikhs visiting their most revered temple, the Golden Temple in Punjab, India - 2017
Coping Cue Cards™ Discovery Deck™
$24.99
The Coping Cue Cards Discovery Deck is a deck of cards designed to help kids learn healthy coping skills. The Coping Cue Cards Discovery Deck has 40 coping skills cards with simple strategies children can use to cope with stress, anxiety, and anger.The deck is sorted into 5 Coping Styles: Relaxation, Distraction, Movement, Processing, and Sensory. There are so many ways to use the discovery deck: to help kids identify which coping skills work for them, as a visual reminder to use a coping skill, or as a way to find new coping skills to expand their toolbox. The deck brings order to the mountain of ideas for coping strategies that work for kids and is designed to work at both school and home.
MySELF Readers: I Have Feelings, Small Book 6-pack, English
$25.50
Stories told from the perspectives of diverse children enable students to learn about relationships and feelings. The inside front cover of each book offers teaching tips to ease conversations about behavior while building reading skills to meet Common Core Standards. The inside back cover offers post-reading questions and real world connection opportunities. Includes My Happy Day; The Day I Felt Sad; I Was So Mad; Don't Worry, Mason; Are You Scared, Jacob?; and Jealous of Josie.
180 Days of Geography, Grade 1
$22.99
180 Days of Geography for First Grade provides teachers and parents with 180 days of daily practice to build students' geographical knowledge and skills. Through these weekly units, grade 1 students will improve their geographic background knowledge, critical thinking and reasoning skills, map and spatial skills, and answer photo- and text-dependent questions. This essential social studies resource provides teachers with the tools they need to provide detailed instruction on map skills, key geographical concepts, and the five themes of geography: location, place, human environment/interaction, movement, and region.
With the world becoming more connected, learning about different places through a geographic lens will equip 21st century students with the skills they need to betterunderstand diverse cultures and regions in an increasingly interdependent world. An introductory two-week unit focuses on teaching the map skills that students will use throughout the rest of the book. Subsequent units will introduce students to a new place or a type of map, and will explore the relationship between geography and culture. This book helps teachers meet National Geography Standards and state standards in their classrooms. Digital files are included.
$9.99
From KWLs to “foldables” and more, the Missouri Interactive Notebook: A Hands-On Approach to Learning About Our State! resource includes activities that will have students exploring their state's history, geography, people, government, economics, and symbols in a whole new way! A true-time saver, the Missouri Interactive Notebook: A Hands-On Approach to Learning About Our State! includes ready-to-use pages and instructions that make state-studies fun and successful for the whole class.
The Missouri Interactive Notebook: A Hands-On Approach to Learning About Our State! is more than just a notebook for taking notes—it's a way of collecting and thinking about information. The Missouri Interactive Notebook: A Hands-On Approach to Learning About Our State! helps students become creative, independent, and reflective thinkers, readers, and writers. Students learn to express their own ideas and apply skills learned in class. The Missouri Interactive Notebook: A Hands-On Approach to Learning About Our State! gives teachers ready-to-use pages, templates, instructions, writing prompts, and more, making it easy to start using their interactive notebooks today!
The Missouri Interactive Notebook: A Hands-On Approach to Learning About Our State! is more than just a notebook for taking notes—it's a way of collecting and thinking about information. The Missouri Interactive Notebook: A Hands-On Approach to Learning About Our State! helps students become creative, independent, and reflective thinkers, readers, and writers. Students learn to express their own ideas and apply skills learned in class. The Missouri Interactive Notebook: A Hands-On Approach to Learning About Our State! gives teachers ready-to-use pages, templates, instructions, writing prompts, and more, making it easy to start using their interactive notebooks today!
WHY USE INTERACTIVE NOTEBOOKS?
Interactive Notebooks are great for students!
- Building an Interactive Notebook helps students build organization skills as they take responsibility for their learning resources.
- The Interactive Notebook provides students with an outlet to apply the knowledge they gain in ways that express their own ideas and creativity.
- Guided writing activities incorporated into an Interactive Notebook help your students develop into independent, creative, reflective thinkers.
- And, once completed, an Interactive Notebook becomes a comprehensive and engaging review tool to help your students master content and prepare for tests.
Interactive Notebooks are great for teachers!
- You can easily customize your instruction.
- You direct the learning process and pace.
- You determine where to dig deeper...and when and where to add pizzazz!
- You choose which projects to use as instruction, which projects to use as reinforcement, which projects to use as independent practice, and which projects to use as assessments.
- You can supplement activities with your own texts and projects.
- And, you meet the unique needs of your students—in each and every year!
A true time-saver!
- Step-by-step teacher instructions
- Ready-to-use, reproducible pages
- Writing and reflection prompts
- Student letter
- Supply lists
- Rubric
- And more!
This book is reproducible and has 68 pages.
$10.99
Fun clues help players learn to identify all 50 states, capitals, logos, dates of admission, and other state trivia. Traditional 5 x 5 grid format can be played six ways to meet the needs of learners of all abilities. Fun for large or small group use. Set includes: 36 playing cards, over 700 chips, caller's mat and cards, and a sturdy storage box.