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Social
Studies Ideas!
| Idea Title | Grade | Description |
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| Locations of Spanish Speaking Countries | 6 |
A game to remember country names and locations |
| Michelangelo Paintings | 4-6 |
Students really "put themselves in his shoes" with this insightful activity! |
| Festival of Nations | 5-6 |
A valuable resource for classes studying other foreign nations. Also, find out more about putting on an International Fair! |
| Classroom Colony | 5 |
Create your own classroom colony while studying the 13 Colonies! Winning Idea! |
| Columbus Journals | 6 |
A creative way to display student's writing. |
| Ancestor Party | 4-6 |
Students come in costume, dressed as an ancestor of theirs. |
| What My Ancestor Did | 4-6 |
Students discover the backgrounds of their ancestors. |
| Clap 3 Times for Citizenship! | K-1 |
A thematic unit written by a Kindergarten teacher. Students become aware of rights, responsibilities, and roles of citizenship. |
| Morning Spanish Idea | 6 |
A morning routine idea in Spanish class. |
| World Map Skills | 4-6 |
Taste buds will be salivating with this geographical activity! |
| Class Heritage Fair | K-6 |
An excellent way to connect home and school. It also helps celebrate differences. |
| Letters to Invention Companies | 3-6 |
Connecting real-life ideas to the classroom. Students will learn more than what is just in the textbook! |
| Inventing Our Own Class Language! | 2-6 |
Making up a class language is an invention and an ADVENTURE itself! |
| We Are All Inventors | K-6 |
What will your students invent with items pulled from the "junk" drawer? |
| Inventing a New Cookie | K-2 |
What will the next best-selling cookie be? |
| Excellent
Resources for a Study on Inventions |
K-6 |
A list of excellent books and other resources for use with your invention unit. |
| Foreign Language Learning Center | 2-6 |
Bring the world to your room! Your students have the potential of learning many new words in different languages! |
| The
Great Search - Recycling Those Recyclables! |
2-6 |
A great way to incorporate service, math and recycling awareness. |
| "Around the World in 180 Days" Suitcases |
3-6 |
Create "big books" with your students' traveling experiences! Also a nice way to display a study of states or countries. |
| Graphing a Cleaned-Out Desk! | 3-6 |
As part of your recylcing unit, combine math graphing with a desired outcome - a clean desk! |
| World-Wide Traveling | 2-6 |
Around the world...where will you go...spin 3 times...and soon you'll know! An idea to integrate social studies and writing! |
| All About Me Timelines | 3-6 |
A student's timeline rolled up in a scroll |
| State Cookie Maps | 4 |
Your state can be a yummy treat! |
| The ABC's of My Great State! | 4-6 |
Students keep track of significant places and events in a state's history with the use of an ABC book. |
| Cultural Awareness Bulletin Board | K-3 |
A large world map helps children to see where and how others live in our world. |