Newly posted:

Virginia History – The Arrival – Fling the Teacher – answer 15 multiple choice questions about the arrival of the colonists in Virginia history correctly and you’ll know enough to fling your teacher away! Be careful…if you miss a question, you have to go back to the beginning!

Here is an online review (with multiple choice questions) for 4th grade social studies. It covers the geography of Virginia and the early history (before the colonies).

Virginia History Review – Part 1

(Part 2 of the review is coming soon!)

Two review games so far…more to come. Stay tuned!

Social Studies Review 1 – Teacher Invaders – Native Americans and Explorers

Social Studies Review 2 – Half-a-Min – The Colonies and the Revolutionary War

I posted some activities to help with map skills here:

Map Skills – MS Power Point presentations on maps and directions (take a trip through the White House!) and on map symbols – each with a multiple-choice quiz. Also, download 25 Map Symbols Bingo cards here, print them out, and play!

This link is also on my portal under Kindergarten or First Grade –  Social Studies:

Ms. LaMagna’s Portaportal

I posted a site to the web with projects for 5th grade social studies standards covered during the 2nd 9 weeks (USI.5a-d through USI.6a-d). Some of the projects are not strictly computer based and students will need colored pencils, paper, and index cards for those projects (timelines, character trading cards, and victory posters).

Here is the link:

US History Projects  

The link is also on my portal under 5th Grade>Social Studies – the link is called:  US History Projects – Colonization through Revolution.

Take your students on a scavenger hunt about the Virginia Colony (VS.4a,b,c,d)! Download and print the handout containing the questions students must answer to complete the hunt:

Colonial Life Scavenger Hunt

Students are directed to use their notebooks, textbooks, or Internet sources to complete the scavenger hunt. Links to Internet sources (as well as an additional link to the handout and links to reinforcement activities) are available on my Portaportal under 4th Grade > Social Studies > Virginia Colony Scavenger Hunt:

Portaportal

Step back in time and create a travel brochure for ancient Greece, ancient Rome, and the Mali Empire (SOLs 3.1 and 3.4)!

A template for the travel brochure with directions is provided along with a tutorial on using clipart to add/replace images in MS Word 2007. Students are directed to use their notes to complete the travel brochure, but links are provided for internet research to help them as well. There are links to online review quizzes/games for students who complete their projects early. Here is the link:

Ancient Civilizations