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USA Map Puzzles

04/25/2024 by admin

These Interactive USA Map Puzzles on Google Slides are an ideal resource for cultivating map skills in your students. These engaging maps are designed to assist your students in mastering the names, abbreviations, shapes, regions, and capitals of the United States. Whether you’re guiding lessons in social studies, ESL, geography, or history, these materials are crafted for hands-on activities and will become an invaluable asset in your teaching toolkit!

Differentiated to reach a wide range of student abilities, you can use these maps in class for beginners just learning about the United States to upper-grade students learning state capitals and U.S. history.

Click here to download now! https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/USA-Map-Puzzles-Regions-States-Capitals-and-Abbreviations-Google-Slides-4309174

This puzzle set is also available as a PowerPoint file!

Upon purchase, you will receive instructions for copying the six slide decks to your Google Drive. There are five slide decks for regional practice and one slide deck for full U.S. practice. Each slide deck includes 25 slides – 11 master map puzzles and 14 student map puzzles. Each map has a background and manipulatives that include state names, state abbreviations, capital names, and state shapes. Be sure to check out the preview!

Taking it Online

03/03/2020 by admin

With the unexpected cancellation of classes, keeping your classes going online is a real option and the next best thing to actually being in the classroom. So, what platform do you choose? Google Classroom might be the answer for you.

Signing up for Google Classroom is free for personal use and a business account starts at a very reasonable rate. Once you’ve signed up, it’s easy to navigate and you’ll be communicating with your students from anywhere – even if you decide to take your own vacation during this time!

To get started, watch the tutorial video below. You’ll quickly see the advantages of having an online portal available and, once you get up and running, I’ll bet you’ll never turn back!

https://edu.google.com/products/classroom/

Besides the virtual classroom, you’ll have access to content-creating apps like Google Slides and Google Forms, the ability to schedule content on Google Calendar, plus a host of useful tools and options for organizing virtual courses and separate classes.

When you’re ready to start loading content, here are some free Google Slides resources I created for my own classes. Just click to download the files. Copy the resource link to import them into your own account and you’re all set! You can distribute them to your students for use during live-streaming classes or make them available for download for scheduled assignments and review.

ABC Bingo – abc Bingo – Color Flash Cards

Book 1 – Be Verbs – Book 2 – To Be Past – Animal Puzzles

For more digital activities, click on the links below. The full Stories For Young Readers series is available as a paperless resource with the same rigor and exercises as the printed textbooks! You’ll also find CVC word activities, flashcards, and a variety of Bingo games!

Paperless Stories For Young Readers Lesson Packs

Digital Flash Cards – Digital Activities

Stay safe and best of luck in your classes!

Donald Kinney
Kinney Brothers Publishing

U.S.A. Map Puzzles

01/16/2019 by admin

Donald's English Classroom Kinney Brothers Publishing Map Puzzles

These U.S. Map Puzzles on Powerpoint and Google Slides will help your kids learn the names, abbreviations, shapes, regions, and capitals of the United States. Whether you teach social studies, ESL, geography, or history, you’ll be sure to use these materials for years to come! Be sure to check out the free map puzzle at the end of this post!

Included in this download are 6 Powerpoint files and links to Google Slides files. Each slide deck includes 25 slides – 11 master map puzzles and 14 student map puzzles. Differentiated to reach a wide range of student abilities, you can use these maps in class for beginners just learning about the United States, to upper-grade students learning state capitals and U.S. history.

This file is also compatible to Regional Maps worksheets and is included in the Regional Maps Worksheets Bundle!

Check out a sampling of the 150 slides this resource has to offer! To get you started, download a full USA Map Puzzle on Powerpoint. It’s free!