Social Studies Bundle

This is a bundle of my popular scaffolded social studies units:

Long Ago & Now
Location, Location, Location
Biography Research Reports {QR Codes}
All About Laws and How Nations Get Along
Biography Report for Any Person

Purchasing this bundle will save you 25% off purchasing the units individually.

Long Ago & Now

Long Ago & Now is a social studies unit to help students understand how their lives relate to things and events long ago.
The unit includes:
• Compare and contrast artifacts today and long ago
• Family Tree
• Grandparent (or older relative) interview
• Timeline

The parent letters come with both an English and Spanish translations.

The writing activities are scaffolded in three ways: (1) with sentence frames, (2) by asking students to write two sentences, or even (3) write an entire paragraph. The writing activities with “Artifacts Long Ago & Now” help prepare students for a similar writing activity in the “Grandparent Interview”.

Most of the pages have both a primary and intermediate line option, except the pages sent home, which include the Family Tree and Grandparent Interview.

Map Skills: Location, Location, Location

This social studies unit focuses helps students learn map skills in second grade.

The unit includes:

• Letter & Number Grid Maps (for the classroom, school, and neighborhood)
• Map of North America (for labeling and understanding essential map components)
• Where did your Ancestors Live? (to help students trace their heritage)
• Rural, Urban, and Suburban (description and compare and contrast)

Each of these sections is built with scaffolding and help students move from oral language production to written work. Sentence frames and vocabulary cards are provided.

Most of the pages have both a primary and intermediate line option.

The parent letter comes in both Spanish and English.

Biography Research Report QR Codes

Do your students struggle to find information on famous historical figures? Do you have technology in your classroom that could help, but aren’t sure how to get all of your students to access the websites they need?

These QR Codes for Biography Research Reports are just what you need. Each historical figure has a page with QR codes for both websites and videos that students can use to access additional information beyond a textbook or book.

The website QR Codes mainly lead students to these websites: Duckster, Mr. Nussbaum, Biography.com. In a few instances, information was not available on those sites, so students are directed toward other child-friendly websites.

The videos QR Codes are mainly from Biography.com and Youtube. Youtube videos are routed through Safeshare. Unfortunately, some of the Biography.com videos are not available on YouTube so they cannot be put through Safeshare. The Biography.com videos do contain advertisements.

All About Laws & How Nations Get Along

All About Laws & How Nations Get Along is a social studies unit to supplement teaching about laws and governments for second-grade students.

The unit includes:
• Lesson plans
• Vocabulary cards
• Original text that details how we make laws, carry out laws, enforce laws and punish wrongdoers.
• Original text that details how nations interact with one another by helping each other, sharing their culture, making treaties, diplomacy, and military force.
• Activities for each text that helps students go deeper with the content and reflect on their learning
• Written assessment where students synthesize their understanding of how laws are made and how nations interact with one another.

A Biography Report and biography project resource for any person. Students can use the activities and report for a presentation or complete a genre study of biographies.  Includes graphic organizers for research, genre posters, full-page report pages, half-page report pages, trifold report, lap book in two sizes, and construction paper people in two sizes.

This Biography Report can be used for any historical person and is great for social studies biography unit or reading or informational writing and research unit.  It includes five different report options with a variety of pages from which to pick and choose.   

This resource is designed for second-fifth grades and can be differentiated by choosing specific graphic organizers and pages that meet the needs and levels of your students.  Teachers can also adjust the editable rubric and checklist to meet grade appropriate expectations.

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This Biography Resource includes:

Teacher Notes & Background Information

• Student Report Selection page
• Rubric (editable)
• Checklist (editable)

Genre Posters in color and black and white and in multiple formats

Research Graphic Organizers in a variety of formats and with different options, including timeline, facts, and character traits. Lined and unlined versions are available for most pages.

Full-page Report / Poster Pages & Half-page Report Pages with the following options:

• Cover
• Table of Contents
• Scaffolded Report
• Person Portrait
• Early Life
• Education / Training
• Importance in History
• Facts
• Quote
• Timeline (in two formats)
• Major Events
• Death
• Personal Reflection
• Character Traits
• Books & Websites

Biography Report Poster (that can be printed on large paper)

Staple the pages together with construction paper and glue the cover on the front to form booklets.

Trifold Report Pages that includes character traits, early years, adulthood, later years, major events, important thing, background information, reflection and quote.

Lap Book / Interactive Notebook / Construction Paper Person Components that includes how to construct the person, along with a variety of “head” options and suggestions for lap book layout.  Includes many different interactive notebook components sized for the large and small lap books that can also be used in an interactive notebook.

This Biography Report Resource compliments my QR Codes for Biography Research Reports, which helps students access kid-appropriate website and videos when studying about a famous person.