Social Studies Enrichment Activities
Early elementary grades
Helpful websites:
K-3 Resources
- https://www.education.com
- https://www.historyforkids.net
- https://www.coreknowledge.org/
- https://www.mrdonn.org
Community
Worksheets:
- What is a Good Citizen?
- Community Helpers: Their Roles and Tools
- Do I Need It? Wants vs. Needs
- Community Workers
Videos:
- Urban, Suburban & Rural Social Studies Lesson Video
- Kindergarten Economics: Goods and Services
- Goods and Services Sort
- Wants and Needs Freebie
- Interactive Notebook: Social Studies Sampler
- Good Citizenship PowerPoint Presentation
- Explain the process of voting and create a polling place in your home. Ballot to use for play voting: Voting
- Include your child with you to vote in-person or and explain to them how the process works.
- What a lap book is and how to create one: Lapbooking Made Easy
- Christopher Columbus Lapbook and Notebook Study
- Early American History: 1600-1800 (Timeline notebook directions and printables)
- American Revolution and Its Heroes (A unit study with worksheets provided at the end of the unit)
- American History
Economics
Worksheets:
Videos:
Citizenship
Activities:
Worksheets:
American history- early elementary grades
Activities:
Worksheets and coloring pages:
Videos:
Constitution
Worksheets:
Video Songs:
Videos:
Ancient civilizations
Egypt
General Information:
Worksheets:
Coloring Pages:
Video:
Games:
Rome
Video:
Greece
Video:
Native Americans
Worksheets and lap book:
Videos:
Geography
General Information:
Maps
Maps activities:
Worksheets:
Video:
Games
Landmarks
Activity:
Worksheets:
Video:
Continents
Worksheets, coloring pages, and maps:
Song Videos:
Videos:
Oceans
Videos:
50 States
Worksheets and maps:
State songs videos:
State capitals videos:
Geographical physical features
Informational websites:
- Geography: An Ecological System
- Island Geography
- Mountain Range Geography
- Lake Geography
- Desert Geography
Worksheet:
Upper elementary grades
Helpful websites:
Grades 4-6 Resources
- https://www.icivics.org/
- https://www.ducksters.com
- https://www.historyforkids.net
- Liberty’s Kids Videos
- https://www.coreknowledge.org/
- https://www.mrdonn.org
American History
General Information with coloring pages and worksheets at the end:
Worksheets:
Videos:
The Constitution and government
Information and resources:
Civics
Games:
The Civil War
Unit Study with timeline cards and worksheets:
Videos:
Biographies:
- Biography of Abraham Lincoln for Kids
- Biography of Harriet Tubman for Kids
- Biography of Fredrick Douglass for Kids
Westward Expansion
Timeline Cards:
- Native Americans and Westward Expansion Timeline
- Native Americans and Westward Expansion: Cultures and Conflicts
Worksheets:
Videos:
50 States
Worksheets and maps:
State songs videos:
State capitals videos:
World history
Middle Ages
General Information and Games:
Worksheets:
- Core Knowledge: The Middle Ages Unit of Study
- Middle Ages
- Middle Ages Activity Book
- Vocabulary: Escape the Castle
Videos:
Videos:
The Renaissance
Activities:
General Information:
Worksheets:
Middle school/high school
Helpful websites:
Middle/ High School Resources
- 1776unites.com
- https://www.icivics.org/
- https://constitutioncenter.org/learn/educational-resources/we-the-civics-kids/
- https://billofrightsinstitute.org/
- https://www.ducksters.com
- https://www.coreknowledge.org/
- https://www.mrdonn.org
Early Civilizations History
Egypt, Greece, and Rome
General Information:
Worksheets:
The United States Constitution
Activities:
Videos:
Bill of Rights Lesson Plan with Activities and Worksheets:
Games:
Constitution Day:
Online Classes:
Industrial Revolution
Unit study with resources:
Videos:
Government
Republicanism
General Information:
Video:
Democracy
Worksheets:
Video:
Socialism and Communism
Information:
Videos:
American Imperialism
Video:
Progressive Era 1890-1920
Videos:
Teddy Roosevelt:
Inventions:
Women’s Suffrage:
Worksheets and Games:
World War I:
Worksheets:
Videos:
Pandemic 1918
Information:
Roaring 20s
Unit study and resources:
- Roaring Twenties Unit Study and Resources
- The History Channel: Roaring Twenties
- The Roaring Twenties
Video:
1929 Stock Market Crash
Information:
Video:
The Great Depression
Information:
World War II
Information:
Video: