Social Studies Skill Builders: First Nine Weeks

Ensure your students have opportunities to work on their social studies skills. Add a page a day to their morning work packets, create a weekly social studies packet, or have them participate in a social studies center's activity. There are 45-pages of work. Enough for the first nine weeks of school.

The resource was built around Pennsylvania 3rd grade social studies standards and would work best for 3rd and 4th graders but the resource is marked Not Grade Specific because there are many ways to use this. Older students can certainly use this resource if they need reviews or perhaps never had social studies instructions.

What is actually in it?

• Economics: needs and wants, resources and scarcity, renewable and non-renewable resources, human resources, goods versus services, competition, international currency, supply and demand, and capital resources.
• History: basic graphic organizer skills with no history content, timeline, chronology, and American history periodization. The timeline, chronology, and periodization work are repeats from my history skill builders resources.
• Government: three branches of government, three levels of government, roles of each branch, and US documents.
• Geography: differences between maps and globes, locating lines on the map, cardinal directions on a map, places versus environment, human versus physical geography, and human interaction.
• Vocabulary: please see the preview for the full list of vocabulary words

Is it independent work?

It can be depending on your student's background knowledge. Students will probably need guidance on the vocabulary pages. They will need to know the definitions before they can complete the activities. Government is also another subject that students may need a more guided approach as most have never learned about government. Check out the preview included above and also download the freebie for a look at an additional five pages.

Is it compatible with TpT Easel?

No. The free sample is TpT Easel compatible but the full resources are not because they are packed in a zip file due to the answer key.

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What included:

• One ready to print PDF with the resource
• One PDF answer key

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Second Nine Weeks and third nine weeks available.

Social Studies Skill Builders: First Semester available for a discounted price.

As mentioned above, I have a set of history skill builders as well. Check them out too!

Social Studies Skill Builders: Third Nine Weeks is due at the end of January. I know the third nine weeks will be in full swing already but I won't promise it earlier than the end of January.