These emotions flash cards help Kindergarten to 3rd Grade students name 18 feelings by reading children's faces. Fold-over cards show the face and the word. Answer key included.
These US states black and white flash cards help 1st to 5th grade students name all 50 states by their shapes, with easy fold-over cards and an answer key included.
These back to school behavior flash cards show preschool to 3rd grade children twelve classroom expectations with clear pictures and simple words. Answer key included, so every child starts the year knowing what to do.
These chores flash cards help Preschool through 4th Grade children name 18 everyday chores with picture-front, word-back fold-over cards. Answer key included for quick, independent practice.
These sports flash cards help PreK to 3rd Grade students name 18 sports from pictures of their gear, with an answer key included, to grow everyday vocabulary.
Learn fifteen landforms with these landforms flash cards for kindergarten to 4th grade: painted picture fronts, words and meanings inside, a practice page and an answer key included.
These US states color flash cards help 1st to 5th Grade students learn all 50 state shapes and regions, with an answer key included.
These famous painters flash cards help K-5th Grade students match twelve artists to paintings in their style, with an answer key included, so kids grow a real eye for art.
These firehouse flash cards help preschool to 2nd grade children learn 15 fire station words with fold-over picture cards. Answer key included for quick checking.
These career flash cards help PreK-2nd Grade children name 18 community helpers, from doctor to lifeguard, with fold-over picture cards. A practice page and answer key are included.
Maps, money and good neighbors
Second grade social studies widens the circle from me to my community. Kids learn what makes a good citizen, why we have rules and what happens when we break them. They read simple maps using a compass rose, map symbols and a key, and they find their town, state and country. Economics shows up too: goods versus services, needs versus wants, and producers and consumers, like a baker makes bread (goods) and a doctor helps you heal (a service). Many classes also study community helpers, holidays and how life has changed over time.
Second graders learn best when social studies connects to their own school and street. These moves do exactly that.
Before a city or state map, have kids draw a bird's-eye map of the classroom with a key and a compass rose. Then they give a partner directions: "Walk north to the reading rug." A map they made is a map they understand.
Why it works: children learn more from words and pictures together than from words alone (Mayer, 2009).
Try it withCompass Rose WorksheetWorksheetsOpen it →A community song is a great way to start a unit on helpers and neighborhoods. After singing, kids list every job they heard and sort them into goods and services. It turns a catchy tune into a real lesson.
Why it works: a catchy, repeating tune gives the brain a hook to hang words on, so sung text is remembered better (Wallace, 1994).
Try it withCommunity SongSongsOpen it →Have kids write three class rules and the reason behind each one, then talk about fair consequences. When kids help make the rules, they understand why citizenship matters, and they follow the rules more too.
Why it works: kids understand an idea best when they touch it, then draw it, then write it, the order the U.S. Department of Education recommends for elementary math.
Try it withRules Consequences WorksheetWorksheetsOpen it →Role-play, maps and songs bring social studies to life.
WorksheetsAct out a job and the class guesses whether it gives goods or a service. Then switch roles.
Open Goods and Services Worksheet →
WorksheetsMatch pictures like a tree, school and road to their map symbols, then build a pretend town map.
Open Map Symbols Worksheet →
WorksheetsEach day, kids notice a classmate being a good citizen and share it at the end of the day.
Open Being a Good Citizen Worksheet →Teacher favorites right now: Emotions Flash Cards, US States Black and White Flash Cards and Back to School Behavior Flash Cards.
Common topics are community and citizenship, rules and laws, map skills, goods and services, needs and wants, and how communities change over time. Topics vary a bit by state.
They use a compass rose and cardinal directions, read map symbols and a key, and find places like their state and country on a map.
Goods are things you can touch and buy, like apples or shoes. Services are jobs people do for you, like cutting hair or teaching.
Talk about community helpers you see, draw a map of your home, and let your child help with a small shopping trip to learn about needs, wants and money.
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