File-Folder Games in Color Social Studies 10 Ready-to-Go Games That Help Children Learn Key Social Studies Concepts and Vocabulary-Independently (Grades K-2)

76 Pages·2009·29.981 MB·English

by  Immacula Rhodes

in COLOR
File-Folder Games
Social Studies
by Immacula A. Rhodes
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File-Folder Games in Color: Social Studies © Immacula A. Rhodes
To my brother and sisters
“Be joyful in hope, patient in affliction, faithful in prayer.”
— Romans 12:12
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Interior design by Solas
Cover and interior illustrations by Rusty Fletcher
ISBN-13: 978-0-439-51763-8
ISBN-10: 0-439-51763-X
Copyright © 2009 by Immacula A. Rhodes
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Contents
About This Book . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4
Making and Using the File-Folder Games . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .5
What the Research Says . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .6
Meeting the Social Studies and Language Arts Standards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .6
Social Studies Vocabulary and Concepts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .7
File-Folder Games
Blue Ribbon Citizens (citizenship) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .8
Inside-Out Community (places in the community) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .21
Career Talk (community helpers) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .35
Sign City (common signs in the community) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .47
Go, Go, Go! (transportation) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .61
Heigh-Ho, the Dairy-O! (how goods get to market) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .75
Super Seasons, Special Times! (holiday and seasonal signs and symbols) . . . . . . .89
All-American Museum (historical figures and symbols of America) . . . . . . . . . . . .103
America, Past and Present (comparing past and present lifestyles) . . . . . . . . . . . .117
Great Eight State Park (mapping natural landforms) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .131

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About This Book
File-Folder Games in Color: Social Studies offers an engaging and fun way to motivate children
of all learning styles and help them build vocabulary and essential reading skills while reinforcing
social studies skills and concepts. Research shows that repetition and multiple exposure to
content-area words and concepts enhance vocabulary development and comprehension. The
games in this book are also designed to help children meet important curriculum standards.
(See Meeting the Social Studies and Language Arts Standards, page 6, for more.)
The games are a snap to set up and store: Just tear out the full-color game boards from this
book, glue them inside file folders, and you’ve got ten instant learning center activities. Children
will have fun learning as they explore a variety of places with the game Inside-Out Community,
match quotations to workers in Career Talk, learn about how goods get to market in Heigh-Ho,
The Dairy-O!, identify holiday and seasonal signs and symbols in Super Seasons, Special Times!,
and much more.
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What’s Inside
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• a label with the title of each game for the file-folder tab (cid:21)(cid:24)
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a pocket to attach to the front of the file folder for storing the game parts
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directions that explain to children how to play the game
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an answer key
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game cards
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one or more game boards
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some games also include
game markers and a game cube,
number pyramid, or spinner

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Making the File-Folder Games
In addition to the game pages, you will need the following:
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1 0 file folders (in a variety of colors, if possible) g lue stick or rubber cement
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s cissors p aper clips
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c lear packing tape b rass fasteners
Tips
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B ack the spinners, game cubes, number pyramids, and game markers
with tagboard before assembling. Laminate for durability.
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B efore cutting apart the game cards, make additional copies (in color or
black and white) for use with the Extending the Game activities.
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P lace the accessories for each game, such as spinners, game cubes, number
pyramids, and game markers in separate, labeled zipper storage bags.
Keep the bags in a basket near the games.
Using the File-Folder Games
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B efore introducing the games to children, conduct mini-lessons to review
the social studies vocabulary and concept used in each game.
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M odel how to play each game. You might also play it with children
the first time.
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G ive children suggestions on how to determine the order in which players
take turns, such as rolling a die and taking turns in numerical order.
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S tore the games in a learning center and encourage children to play in pairs
or small groups before or after school, during free choice time, or when they
have finished other tasks.
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S end the games home for children to play with family members and friends.
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U se the Extending the Game activities to continue reinforcing children’s skills
and interest.
Storage Ideas
Keep the file-folder games in any of these places:
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l earning center f ile box b ookshelf
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v ertical file tray f ile cabinet p lastic stacking crate

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What the Research Says
In an effective early social studies curriculum, vocabulary development is essential to building
the knowledge base needed for learning and understanding social studies concepts. In fact,
the important relationship between vocabulary and reading comprehension extends across
all content areas. In its review of reading research, the National Reading Panel concluded that
effective strategies for building children’s vocabulary include direct and indirect instruction,
repeated meaningful exposure to new words, and rich and varied contexts for learning.
Children learn content-area vocabulary best from a combination of teaching methods, including
purposeful interaction with the related concepts.
Meeting the Social Studies and Language Arts Standards
Connections to the McREL Social Studies History
and Language Arts Standards • Understands family life today and how it compares
Mid-continent Research for Education and Learning with family life in the recent past and long ago
(McREL), a nationally recognized, nonprofit • Understands reasons important figures were
organization, has compiled and evaluated national significant to our democracy
and state standards—and proposed what teachers • Understands ways in which people have advanced
should provide for their students to grow proficient the cause of human rights and equality
in language arts and social studies, among other • Understands the reasons that Americans celebrate
curriculum areas. The games and activities in this certain national holidays
book support the following standards: • Knows the history of American symbols (the eagle,
Liberty Bell, national flag) and why important
SOCIAL STUDIES buildings, statues, and monuments are associated
Civics with national history
• U nderstands rules and the purposes they serve • Knows the accomplishments of major scientists and
• U nderstands the concept of fairness inventors
• K nows that a responsibility is a duty to do or not do
something LANGUAGE ARTS
• K nows examples of situations that involve Uses the general skills and strategies of the
responsibility; and some of the benefits of fulfilling reading process:
responsibilities • Uses mental images based on pictures and print to
• K nows how different groups in the community take aid in comprehension of text
responsibility (e.g., police, fire department) • Uses meaning clues to aid comprehension and make
predictions about content
Economics • Understands level-appropriate sight words and
• K nows that people in the community have different
vocabulary
jobs and responsibilities • Uses self-correction strategies
• K nows that goods are objects that can satisfy
people’s wants, and services are activities that can
satisfy people’s wants
Geography
• K nows common features (street signs, roads, Sources: National Reading Panel. (2000). Teaching children to read:
buildings) found in the local environment An evidence-based assessment of the scientific research literature
• K nows natural features of the environment (hills, on reading and its implications for reading instruction: Report of
the subgroups (NIH Publication No. 00–4754). Washington, DC:
mountains, oceans, rivers) National Institute of Child Health and Human Development.
• K nows the physical and human characteristics of the Kendall, J. S. & Marzano, R. J. (2004). Content knowledge: A
compendium of standards and benchmarks for K–12 education.
local community (neighborhoods, schools, parks,
Aurora, CO: Mid-continent Research for Education and Learning.
shopping areas, airports, museums, hospitals) Online database: http://www.mcrel.org/standards-benchmarks/

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Social Studies Vocabulary and Concepts
The following lists show the social studies vocabulary and concepts used in each file-folder game:
Blue Ribbon Citizens Sign City Spring: St. Patrick’s Day, Passover,
(citizenship) (common signs in the community) Easter, Earth Day, Mother’s Day,
Tell the truth. Airport, Ambulance, Bicycle Crossing, Memorial Day
Stay in line. Bus Stop, Do Not Enter, Don’t Walk,
Summer: Flag Day, Father’s Day,
Say “please.” Fire Department, Handicapped Parking,
4th of July, summer vacation, picnic,
Say “thank you.” Hospital, No Bicycles, No U-turn,
baseball
Use the trash can. One Way, Parking, Pedestrian Crossing,
Follow the rules. Police Department, Railroad Crossing, All-American Museum
Use kind words. School Crossing, Stop, Telephone,
(historical figures and symbols
Recycle paper and cans. Traffic Light, Trash Can, U.S. Mail,
of America)
Wait your turn to speak. Walk, Yield
4th of July, Abraham Lincoln,
Return library books.
Alexander Graham Bell, American
Clean up after yourself. Go, Go, Go! (transportation)
Flag, Bald Eagle, Cesar Chavez, Clara
Share your toys. airplane, ambulance, bicycle, blimp,
Barton, George Washington, George
Cross a street carefully. bus, car, elevator, helicopter, horse,
Washington Carver, Harriet Tubman,
Use hand signals on your bike. hot-air balloon, in-line skates,
Liberty Bell, Martin Luther King, Jr.,
Donate to the food bank. motorcycle, pedestrian, pushcart,
Mayflower, Orville and Wilbur Wright,
Visit elderly friends. rowboat, RV, sailboat, scooter, ship,
Sally Ride, Squanto, Statue of Liberty,
Help at the animal shelter. skateboard, stroller, subway, taxi, train,
Susan B. Anthony, U.S. Capitol, White
Walk away from fights. truck, tugboat, van, wagon, wave
House
Talk out problems. runner, wheelchair
Help keep the park clean.
America, Past and Present
Say nice things to a friend. Heigh-Ho, the Dairy-O!
(comparing past and present
Use an indoor voice. (how goods get to market)
lifestyles)
Be polite to others. The farmer grows grain.
Past: hand-made clothing, open-flame
Listen and follow directions. Cows eat the grain.
cooking, hand-picked corn, horse-
Cows go to the milking parlor.
drawn wagon, candlelight, marbles and
Inside-Out Community Cows are milked twice a day.
box, quill and parchment, small home
(places in the community) Milk is put in a special truck.
with thatched-roof, self-caught fish,
airport, bank, clothing store, dentist’s The milk is heated.
homemade straw doll, homemade
office, doctor’s office, fire station, Some milk is put in containers.
bread, horse-drawn plow
grocery store, hospital, library, movie Some milk is used for dairy foods.
theater, museum, park, pet store, Products go to a supermarket. Present: store-bought clothing,
police station, post office, restaurant, The products are put out to sell. microwave oven, store-bought canned
school, shoe store, toy store, zoo Shoppers buy the products. corn, automobile, electric lamp,
Kids enjoy the products at home. electronic game, computer, large home
Career Talk with shingled roof, store-bought fish,
(community helpers) Super Seasons, factory-made plastic doll, store-bought
artist, builder, bus driver, cashier, Special Times! bread, motorized tractor
chef, custodian, dentist, doctor, dry (holiday and seasonal signs
Great Eight State Park
cleaner, firefighter, florist, hair stylist, and symbols)
letter carrier, librarian, meteorologist, Fall: first day of school, harvest, (mapping natural landforms)
plumber, police officer, secretary, Hispanic Heritage Month, Columbus cave, hill, island, lake, mountain, river,
teacher, veterinarian Day, Halloween, Thanksgiving swamp, waterfall
Winter: Hanukkah, Christmas,
Kwanzaa, New Year’s Day, Chinese
New Year, Valentine’s Day

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Blue฀Ribbon฀Citizens
Players: 2

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a good citizen.
INTRODUCTION
Help students create a list of traits that describe good citizens. (You may wish
to use the balloons on the game board as a reference.) Then invite them to tell
about times when they personally demonstrated good-citizen traits or observed
others being good citizens.
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Game Board
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 Cut out the directions, answer key, and game cards
on pages 11 and 13. When the game is not in use,
store these items in the pocket on the front of the folder.
 Cut out the two sides of the game board on pages 15 and 17
and glue them to the inside of the folder.
 Cut out and assemble the game cube and game markers on page 1­.
EXTENDING THE GAME
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citizen trait. Then have them write or illustrate on the cutouts a way in
which they personally demonstrate that trait. Display all the balloons with
the title “We Are Filled With Good Citizen Traits.”
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Ask children to think about a person who deserves a blue ribbon for being a
good citizen. Have them design and create a ribbon or other type of award
to present to that person. If desired, plan a special class celebration to
honor students’ selected blue-ribbon citizens.

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Blue Ribbon Citizens
Players: 2

GET READY TO PLAY
• Each player places a game marker on Start.
• Shufle the cards. Stack them facedown on the game board.
TO PLAY
1 Roll the game cube. Move that number of spaces.
Follow the directions on the space.
 If the space has a blue ribbon take a card.
Read it aloud and keep the card.
 Keep taking turns. The first player to reach Finish
goes to the BONUS! space. That player takes an extra card.
 Keep playing until every player reaches Finish.
The player with the most cards is the blue-ribbon citizen for that round.
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