



Now... gain access to over 2 Million curated educational videos and 500,000 educator reviews to free & open educational resources
We found 44,003 reviewed resources for Social Studies
Videos (Over 2 Million Educational Videos Available)
5:34
Women's History Activator: Eleanor Roosevelt

11:22
Prepositional Phrases for Kids | English...

4:59
Biography of Mary Cassatt for Kids: Famous...
Other Resource Types
(44,003)
Lesson Planet: Curated OER
Identity & Community: An Introduction to 6th Grade Social Studies
Begin the school year with a collection of lessons that asks sixth-graders to consider who they are, their new role in middle school, and their role in their community. They study examples of peoples of the past dealing with issues of...
Lesson Planet: Curated OER

Becoming Us
The mission statement of the National Museum of American History’s Becoming US: Teaching Immigration and Migration History in the 21st Century series is to provide “educational resources for high school teachers and students to learn...
Lesson Planet: Curated OER
Teaching Children with Autism—Content Area Resources
Browse a collection designed to meet the needs of scholars with autism in kindergarten through 12th grade. Here, you'll find a variety of resources—lesson plans, printables, activities, worksheets, and an app—spanning a range of content...
Lesson Planet: Curated OER
W.8.2 - Expository Writing: 8th Grade ELA Common Core
Help your students explain, inform, and examine with these resources tied to the W.8.2 expository writing standard. I've put four resources at the end of the collection that are interdisciplinary in nature, a few having to do with...
Lesson Planet: Curated OER
Cross-Curricular Reading Comprehension Worksheets
This series of cross-curricular resources covers just about every subject, ranging from social studies to geometry to physical science. Each worksheet includes a reading passage and five questions that require learners to apply reading...
Learning Explorer
Literacy Beyond the Language Arts Classroom
Celebrate reading across the curriculum with a collection of lessons and worksheets that bring literature and informational text to life in math, science, social studies, and music. Each resource prompts interdisciplinary instruction...
Lesson Planet: Curated OER
Political Systems
Designed for social studies classes, this collection of lessons examine both the history and the current state of US government institutions, policies, and economic programs.
Lesson Planet: Curated OER

Facing Ferguson: News Literacy in a Digital Age
The reporting, both in professional news sources and on social media, of the events surrounding the death of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri provides 21st Century learners with an opportunity of consider how social media can...
EngageNY
EngageNY Precalculus and Advanced Topics Curriculum
A 5-module complete precalculus course begins with young mathematicians exploring linearity, complex number operations as transformation, and the power of the right notation. Module 2 has pupils examining incidence relationships in...
Lesson Planet: Curated OER
KidsHealth in the Classroom: Health Problems Series Grades 9-12
The KidsHealth in the Classroom: Health Problems Series for high schoolers is divided into 18 lessons that examine alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs; emotional and behavioral health; infectious diseases; and conditions such as diabetes,...
Lesson Planet: Curated OER
Civics Curriculum Guide
The 10 lessons in the Civics Curriculum Guide series, designed for high schoolers, contain 28 activities focused on important civic topics. Young scholars consider what it means to be an American and a good citizen, examine the Four...
Lesson Planet: Curated OER
Eyes on the Prize: America’s Civil Rights Movement 1954-1985
The four resources in this collection look at the strategy of non-violence as a response to injustice. High schoolers study the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s and 70s and its leaders, investigate examples of injustice and protest...
Lesson Planet: Curated OER
Judicial Learning Center: Landmark Cases
Five fact-filled lessons look at landmark Supreme Court Cases. Young scholars begin their study by examining the importance of these cases, key terms necessary for studying the court cases, and the relationship between court cases and...
Lesson Planet: Curated OER
Becoming Us: Borderlands
Three case studies make up a unit the looks at the power contentions and exchanges in the borderlands that have shaped the United States. The first case study focuses on creating the US southern border and the experiences of people...
Lesson Planet: Curated OER
Becoming Us: Education
The Becoming Us: Education module examines the history of the fight for racial justice and educational equity today. The first case study looks at the re-segregation of American schools, while the second explores the resistance to school...
EngageNY
EngageNY Grade 7 ELA: Module 2a, Unit 3
The final unit in Module 3A focuses on research skills. The 10 lessons in the collection have students examining how businesses can impact working conditions. Using a case study of the garment industry, class members learn to gather...
EngageNY
EngageNY Grade 7 ELA Module 2a: Working with Evidence: Working Conditions Then and Now
The three units in Module 2A present seventh-graders with literary and informational texts—Katherine Paterson’s novel Lyddie and a speech by Cesar Chavez—that examine historical and present-day working conditions. Pupils learn how to...
Lesson Planet: Curated OER
Youth Risk Behavior Survey Curriculum
Five units comprise the Youth Risk Behavior Survey (YRBS) Curriculum unit module designed for high schoolers. Learners investigate bullying and school safety data, study the effects of stress and learn different ways to manage stress,...
Lesson Planet: Curated OER
How Diseases Spread
Investigate the spread of infectious disease with this interdisciplinary set of high school health lessons. Young scholars start by learning about the mechanisms of disease transmission and the different prevention methods before...
Lesson Planet: Curated OER
NewseumED: Civil Rights
As part of a social, economic, and legal/political civil rights study, class members brainstorm a list of current civil rights issues that affect their community and then select one issue that they think they could work to change as a...
Lesson Planet: Curated OER
Grade K Literacy in Social Studies: Thinking About Families
Family is a wonderful subject for little learners to get excited about. Family is also the theme for a social studies unit that uses literacy standards throughout. The guide outlines approximately three weeks of instruction and breaks...
Lesson Planet: Curated OER
The Texas Social Studies Controversy
Examine the Texas social studies curriculum controversy with your class. Using a current events lesson, learners read the article "A Christian Land Governed by Christian Principles," respond to the discussion questions, and participate...
Lesson Planet: Curated OER
Using Connecting Themes in First Grade Social Studies
Foster contributing members of society with a social studies unit focused on five aspects of community. First graders discuss themes of culture, groups, location, scarcity, and change with discussion questions and activities about...
Lesson Planet: Curated OER
Service Learning in the Social Studies
Active Citizenship Today (ACT) is a "unique social studies service learning program" that requires students to learn about the public policy associated with community issues they identify in their local community. This web site provides...
Other popular searches
- Elementary Social Studies
- Middle School Social Studies
- Social Studies Lesson Plans
- Social Studies Lessons
- Social Studies Activities
- Esl Social Studies
- Social Studies Community
- Social Studies Art
- Social Studies Plan
- Social Studies Concepts
- Social Studies Economics
- Social Studies Map Skills