1st Grade Social Studies & History Centers

This packet includes drawing, coloring, counting, reading, answering questions, a word search, brainstorming, and writing—all centered around Thanksgiving themes.

What’s Inside:

• Educational Reading Passage: Introduces students to the story of Thanksgiving with a historical narrative. This is the only page that might be best done reading it as a group for the younger grades.
• Reading Comprehension Questions: Test students’ understanding with multiple-choice questions and an open-ended prompt.
• Creative Brainstorming and Writing Prompt: Encourage gratitude-focused brainstorming
• "I can be Thankful" Writing: Use the Brainstorming to create a short writing entry on what students are thankful for this year.
• Seek, Color, and Count Activity: Fun for younger students to reinforce counting skills and color recognition. This all-in-one resource will add a touch of fun and learning to your Thanksgiving lesson plans, and teachers and students alike will enjoy it
• Thanksgiving Word Search: Boost vocabulary with holiday-themed words.
• Draw the other half: Carefully redraw the other half of a turkey. This can double as a coloring page.
• 7 Pages of work for the students, 1 example page, and 2 answer key pages for teacher use

This Thanksgiving packet allows students to work independently at their own pace, with little to no help. It is perfect for an afternoon of learning, or something extra they can do when they've finished their other work. You can print out the pages simultaneously to make a packet or use pages individually. Add a touch of fun and learning to your Thanksgiving lesson plans with this all-in-one resource that teachers and students alike will enjoy!

Each adapted social studies book covers the early life, family, and career of a president. These books include real pictures and have visual icons students can match to each page.

Print and have students cut and glue the visuals to each page or laminate and velcro for repeated use.

Presidents Included:

George Washington

Abraham Lincoln

Theodore Roosevelt

Our continents and oceans resource teaches the 7 continents and 5 oceans with everything you'll need for your students to be successful. Students will learn about the continents and oceans in a fun and engaging way with many hands-on activities that can be used for station work. Many of these activities have low prep work involved. With over 130 pages, you will have plenty to keep your students engaged and learning.

What's Included:

• Engage students with individual passports, flight tickets, and stamps when they reach each continent destination.
• 19 printable activities available in full-page activity worksheets/ can be used to make student work booklets. Includes: Continents and oceans coloring map, continent & ocean labeling map, continents & oceans writing page (description, facts, location), smallest to largest labeling pages for continents and oceans.
• Multiple opportunities for student writing including two fact-finder worksheets and an opinion writing about which continent they would like to travel to.
• Peer to Peer collaborative learning activities include roll-out playdoh continent cards, continent fact puzzles, matching words with continents, matching animals with continents, I have, who has activity, and QR code scanning to learn about biomes on the different continents.
• 7 hanging continent group signs to display all year.
• Paper plate globe creation craft
• I have, who has landmarks activity.
• QR codes that link to videos to teach the 8 different biomes. Students will study and link the biomes to the different continents.
• Easily connect the social studies standards with science standards to teach habitats/biomes with continents and oceans in an engaging way that makes sense.
• End of unit assessment: Making a group brochure about a continent.
• Use worksheets for informal assessments. It also includes multiple interactive exit ticket assessments for continents and oceans, as well as a summative assessment.

**A digital Google slide deck will be completed shortly and added to this resource soon.

You'll be excited to see how much your students will learn about their continents and oceans when you are finished!

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Related Resources:

Our TCI science second grade supplemental lesson guides will assist in organizing your materials so you can feel successful teaching the second grade science standards. If interested, click the following link.

TCI Science Second Grade Lesson Guides

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❤️Looking for engaging, differentiated reading comprehension activities to learn about community helpers? Your students will love reading, using critical thinking and deductive reasoning to make meaning of the text, and practicing writing skills with this bundle!

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✏️ These reading comprehension activities are perfect for building literacy skills and confidence!

✏️ Great for your 1st, 2nd or 3rd grade students!

✏️ Use for literacy centers, guided reading groups, homework, intervention programs and more!

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⭐️This resource is low prep and will save you time! Simply print and select the differentiated levels that are most appropriate for your student's needs.

⭐️Check out each resource for more details!

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✅ This bundle includes:

☑ Community Helpers - Reading Comprehension: Set 1

☑ Community Helpers - Reading Comprehension: Set 2

☑ Community Helpers - Reading Comprehension: Set 3

☑ Community Helpers - Reading Comprehension: Set 4

✅ Each set includes:

Worksheets - 3 differentiated levels: (30 pages)

☑ Level 1: reading passage & multiple choice questions (10 pages)

☑ Level 2: reading passage & write the answers - dotted lines (10 pages)

☑ Level 3: reading passage & write the answers - solid lines (10 pages)

Bonus: (63 pages)

☑ Black & white set (30 pages)

☑ Table of contents (2 pages)

☑ What you need to know (1 page)

☑ Answer key (30 pages)

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✅ Set 1 Community Helpers:

☑ firefighter

☑ architect

☑ farmer

☑ flight attendant

☑ pilot

☑ doctor

☑ artist

☑ teacher

☑ chef

☑ business person

✅ Set 2 Community Helpers:

☑ athlete

☑ musician

☑ fast food worker

☑ bank teller

☑ mechanic

☑ police officer

☑ retail worker

☑ astronaut

☑ plumber

☑ delivery person

✅ Set 3 Community Helpers:

☑ waiter

☑ waitress

☑ construction worker

☑ barista

☑ fisherman

☑ dentist

☑ veterinarian

☑ librarian

☑ photographer

☑ lumberjack

✅ Set 4 Community Helpers:

☑ janitor

☑ disk jockey

☑ scientist

☑ nurse

☑ florist

☑ gardener

☑ journalist

☑ baker

☑ barber

☑ movie director

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