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three blue balls with pictures on them sitting on a bed

In third grade our first unit for social studies is a fun one.....geography. The kids get very excited and love to start exploring maps and globes. Take a peek at a few of my favorite classroom activities for geography. I start the year off by introducing interactive notebooks. I explain to my students that these are notebooks that will keep track of our ideas, discoveries and information to help us grow. These are unique in the fact that they are never truly complete, the students learn…

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worksheet for beginning with words and pictures

Kids can practice identifying needs and wants by sorting pictures and words in this free social studies worksheet. It is an easy cut and paste activity.

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a map with the names of countries on it and cut out to make a world map

Are you studying geography this year? Check out this free, printable Continent Matching Activity. It's especially great for younger children, but older ones may find it helpful as well. It will help your child to visually recognize the shape of the different continents!

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a pile of different colored paper discs with the words me on the map in it

This "Me on the Map," activity is created by nesting circles to help kids in developing a basic understanding of geography. This rotating circular craft helps kids understand the difference between a city, state, country, continent, and planet. For full video please click on the link below https://youtu.be/SgA3P_KkdHU PS : All maps are just a representation of it,we tried our level best to get the accuracy as all are hand drawn . #neeldeepscreations #LearnwithRhythm #ArtbyRhythm

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five books for me on the map with text overlay that reads flipbooks for me on the map

We spent the last few weeks of school studying Arkansas history and our state symbols. We started by reading Me on the Map and talking about what our map would look like. Read to see our colorful anchor charts and flipbooks we made in first grade!

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a passport is shown with the words passport around the world on it and an image of a

Introduce your learners to different cultures from around the world with this free holiday passport around the world activity!

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a paper plate that has some sort of food on it with words in the middle

Plenty of interactive ideas and activities to teach landforms for kids. Find videos, worksheets and even experiments to help.

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two printable map activities for teachers to use in the elementary classroom

Help your kindergarten, 1st, 2nd, and 3rd grade students develop strong map skills. This blog post features a variety of teaching tips and ideas for your map skills social studies unit. Kids will learn how to read and create maps. They will learn the parts of a map and how to give directions. Find all of these ideas and more to make your map skills lesson plans the best they can be. Teaching map skills in the elementary classroom just got easier with the ideas from this article. Read it now!

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