Free social studies lesson plans for K–8 on communities, maps, government, economics and cultures, with group activities and class discussions.
In this 45-minute Grade 3 lesson, small teams build schools, stores, hospitals, and parks from boxes and construction paper, draw connecting roads, and join their pieces into one class community.…
In this 45-minute lesson, third graders imagine five escaped zoo monkeys have joined their class and work in small groups to write and illustrate a poster of rules the monkeys…
In this 45-minute Grade 2 lesson, children start by figuring out who could help find a missing class hamster, then work in teams as police, firefighters, doctors and other helpers…
In this 45-minute lesson, second graders get a bag of colored paper shapes and trade with classmates in timed rounds until each has one shape of every color. Short talks…
In this 45-minute Grade 1 lesson, pairs of children walk around the school with clipboards, sketch places like the library, cafeteria, and playground, and turn their sketches into a simple…
In this 45-minute Grade 1 lesson, children cut, fold, and decorate their own paper houses, then work in small groups to arrange them on chart paper, draw roads, and add…
In this 45-minute kindergarten lesson, small groups imagine their family has adopted a baby dinosaur, then draw it and make a poster of three house rules, like no stomping at…
In this 45-minute kindergarten lesson, children play detectives, working in small teams to decide where helpers like doctors, teachers, and police officers belong and taping name cards onto charts for…
En 40 minutes, les enfants de maternelle examinent des objets dessinés sortis d’une enveloppe mystère et devinent quel membre d’une famille les utilisait. Ils dessinent leur propre famille avec des…
En équipes de détectives, les élèves de 3e année ouvrent des enveloppes d’indices (repas de fête, vêtements, célébrations) pour deviner d’où vient chaque tradition familiale et pourquoi elle compte. Ils…
In this 45-minute kindergarten lesson, children follow a read-aloud mystery about a missing pet, making paper figures for each family they meet and placing their homes on a group neighborhood…
En 45 minutes, les enfants de maternelle observent en équipe des cartes illustrées de familles du monde et placent des aimants pour noter ce qui les rapproche et les distingue.…