Help students understand themselves, their community and the wider world.
This category includes a maps and globes unit with continents and oceans, community helpers centers for the youngest learners, All About Me activities, a mock Election Day kit with ballots and graphs, and high-interest career exploration reading passages for middle and high school.
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Created byActivity Express12 high-interest weird job reading passages for grades 6–12, with two comprehension levels, a career interest quiz, job ad and application activities.
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Created byActivity ExpressRun a nonpartisan class election in K–5: polling place signs, voter ID cards, secret ballots, 3 levels of graphing, opinion writing and reflection pages.
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Created byActivity ExpressA K–3 citizenship craft and mini unit: Good Citizen Tree with 8 behavior leaves, 3 writing levels, scenario cards, sorts and a class bulletin board.
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Created byActivity ExpressAll About Me for PreK–K: 2 class books, an 8-page mini book, 5 class graphs, shoe and hand measuring, body crafts, 12 circle time cards and a 2-week plan.
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Created byActivity Express15 community helpers math and literacy centers for preschool, Pre-K and kindergarten: beginning sounds, rhyming, ten frames, graphing, measuring and more.
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Created byActivity ExpressA 45-page maps and globes unit for grades 2–4: compass rose, map key, grid, scale, 7 continents, 5 oceans, landforms, latitude and longitude, unit test.
A guide to teaching career exploration in grades 6–12 through high-interest nonfiction: interest inventories, skills, job ads, applications and projects.
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Plan a fair, nonpartisan class election in K–5: teach voting vocabulary, set up a polling place, cast secret ballots, graph results and write opinions.
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A K–3 guide to teaching citizenship: what a good citizen does, scenario talks, sorting at home, school and community, leveled writing and a 3-day plan.
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How to run an All About Me unit in PreK and kindergarten with class books, name graphs, measuring, draw-and-write pages and circle time talk.
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How to plan a community helpers unit for preschool, Pre-K and kindergarten with math and literacy centers, social studies talk and a two-week rotation.
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How to teach maps vs globes, compass rose, map key, grid, scale, continents, oceans, landforms, latitude and longitude in grades 2–4.
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