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Bring social studies to life with games that explore history, geography, and cultures. This collection includes historical simulations, map challenges, and cultural quizzes. By integrating these social studies games into your teaching, you can deepen students' global awareness.
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The 10 New Year Traditions: Discussion Game (Editable in Google Slides) A unique teaching resource, 'The 10 New Year Traditions: Discussion Game' is designed to engage Grade 6 through Grade 10 students.
This resource is a 13 Colonies Activity Puzzle. All you have to do is print, laminate and cut the pieces. Each puzzle is made up of 4 pieces: - a vocabulary term - a matching picture - quick descriptor - extended definition Answer keys…
A digital-and-printable escape room activity for use after reading A Christmas Carol, having students analyze how Dickens used and altered Victorian history to influence his characters and message, comparing fictional portrayal to historical account.
A cross-curricular mini-unit teaching students about the 2024 Paris Summer Olympics, combining reading, math/graphing, social studies, research, and presentation skills.
Celebrate Independence Day with a Patriotic Bingo Game for Kids | Perfect for Kindergarten and Elementary. We can celebrate the 4th of July in a way with this Independence Day Bingo Game for young kids. This game is fun and educational.
A 10-station Thanksgiving-themed escape-room activity (PowerPoint format) in which students solve a sequence of puzzles -- word unscrambles, matching, a number cipher, math word problems, riddles, a letter hunt, a word search, story sequencing, and a final riddle -- to find where the Thanksgiving feast has 'disappeared' to.
A pre-reading introduction activity for A Christmas Carol, teaching students the historical context (Victorian England, workhouses, child labor, Charles Dickens' biography) via a 'Deal or No Deal'-style fact-or-fiction game.
Abandon Ship! Titanic Social Stratification Game is an immersive role-playing activity where students decide which passengers get a spot in the limited lifeboats as the Titanic sinks.
Country groups make alliance requests and respond to other groups under the game’s rules. The confrontation sequence reveals how commitments, rejection and changing loyalties can widen a conflict. Use the teacher guide to run the simulation, then map the alliances and discuss what the simplified model shows about escalation.
Activities to accompany a video on the history of Thanksgiving, covering vocabulary matching, historical timeline sequencing, charades, and creative writing.
A digital (Google Slides) review game for a US history unit, letting teachers quiz students on content via game formats like Family Feud, Build-A-Bear, and Attack!.
A digital (Google Slides) review game for a US-in-WWII history unit, letting teachers quiz students on content via game formats like Family Feud, Build-A-Bear, and Attack!.
Interactive classroom review game ('Conflict at Jamestown') reinforcing the history and importance of the Jamestown, Virginia colonial settlement (1607).
Activity Introduction An amazing activity designed for the students to learn more about history. American Holidays Do you like history? Which topic do you really enjoy about history?
Travel to Ancient Egypt with this Bingo game! This NO PREP resource includes teacher instructions, Bingo patterns, call cards, and Bingo cards featuring hieroglyphics. It makes a great addition to your Ancient Egypt unit study; world geography lessons; social studies or history class; or just for fun. Perfect for third grade, fourth…
A 37-page printable card game teaching American Revolution chronology (1760-1780s) by having players build a personal 8-card timeline in correct order from event cards.
A multi-resource unit study packet to teach elementary/middle grades about the Ancient Indus Valley (Harappan) civilization: geography, daily life, inventions, and key sites.
Are you looking for a fun and engaging activity for For Black History Month? If so this Black History Month Bingo Game Set is perfect for you!
A no-prep bingo game introducing students to Antarctica's geography, wildlife, and polar explorers/research vocabulary.
Celebrate and honor our heroes with this fun and educational Armed Forces Day Bingo Game ! Perfect for classrooms, homeschool, or patriotic events, this bingo set introduces kids to the different branches of the United States Armed…
Canadian symbols, provinces and territories, wildlife, and coins fill forty different bingo cards in this printable game, each paired with matching call cards a caller draws and reads aloud. Items include beaver, maple leaf, loonie, toonie, Niagara Falls, totem pole, and every Canadian province and territory, giving the deck enough variety that no two of the forty cards are alike. The instructions describe eight selectable winning patterns — three line variants, two T-shapes, two U-shapes, and a squares pattern — so the same set of cards can be replayed with a different target shape each round. Students mark called items with a dabber, stamp, or small token as the caller reveals cards one at a time, and the first to complete the chosen pattern calls out "Bingo!" to win.
A bundle of Canadian geography/civics activities covering the provinces and territories: locating them on maps, matching names to capitals and abbreviations, and labeling a blank map.
Canadian Cities Gr. 2-3: A Comprehensive Teaching Resource The Canadian Cities Gr. 2-3 resource is an excellent addition to any teaching toolbox, designed specifically for Grade 2 and Grade 3 students studying Social Studies with a focus…
Chinese New Year Bingo and Memory Game Bring the festivities of Chinese New Year into your classroom with this engaging 2-in-1 game set.