Description

Teaching social studies in kindergarten can be tricky, especially when it comes to finding age-appropriate materials and resources. This Kindergarten Social Studies Interactive Notebook comprehensive resource is the perfect way to meet your students where they are at and have a lot of fun with quality social studies activities and lessons.

This resource can be used digitally as well, making it perfect for at-home or distance learning or even as a way to incorporate technology in your classroom.

This resource:

✔Is leveled specifically for kindergarten social studies material.

✔Covers a variety of social studies topics and standards!

✔Includes tools to reinforce and assess previously taught skills.

✔Is engaging and allows students to be successful independently.

✔Has vocabulary building activities to help master beginning social studies concepts.

There are 200+ pages of activity sheets, vocabulary cards, and pocket chart sorts for whole group instruction. You can use the activities for quick assessments. The interactive notebook format helps keep everything organized and easy to access throughout the unit.

Each lesson is easy to adapt, so you can teach them in the order that best fits your students and schedule. Fine motor skills and categorization skills are also used in these lessons.

To use this resource digitally, you may assign the interactive notebook pages digitally through Google Classroom or Seesaw. Students can engage with the fine motor activities at home and send a picture or recording of their work back to you via Google Classroom or Seesaw.

The topics covered in this resource are: 

Rules and Manners

• Good choices vs. bad choices
• Good listeners
• Problems and solutions
• School rules vs. community rules
• Lending a helping hand

Emotions

• Identifying emotions
• Recognizing feelings
• Actions and consequences
• Illustrating emotions
• Anger management

Calendar

• Days of the week
• Days of the month
• Fill in the calendar

Holidays

• Veterans Day
• President’s Day
• Thanksgiving
• Memorial Day
• Labor Day
• Earth Day
• 4th of July

Sorts

• Past vs. present
• Needs vs. wants
• Goods vs. Service
• Holiday match
• Inventors and their inventions
• Invention timeline
• National symbol timeline

Maps

• Map skills – position words
• Map skills – color words
• Map skills – compass skills
• Classroom map
• Legend learning
• Legend creation
• Globe knowledge

Famous Americans

• George Washington
• Abraham Lincoln
• Rosa Parks
• Benjamin Franklin
• Johnny Appleseed
• Amelia Earhart
• Ruby Bridges
• Christopher Columbus
• Thomas Jefferson
• Alexander Graham Bell
• Henry Ford
• The Wright Brothers

American Symbols

• The Liberty Bell
• The Statue of Liberty
• Eagle
• The Lincoln Memorial
• The Washington Monument
• The White House
• The American Flag

Community Helpers

• Community helpers – matching activities
• Labeling and sorting activities for each:
  • Chef
  • Doctor
  • Fire Fighter
  • Mail carrier
  • Police officer
  • Teacher
  • Trash collector
  • Veterinarian

Transportation

• By land, air, or water
• Traffic lights

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