Social Studies Teaching Resources
Take your students on a journey through world and US history with thousands of printable cross-curricular social studies worksheets, history teaching slides, anchor charts, Google Slide interactive activities, and thousands more teacher-created resources to turn every child into a tiny historian.
Are you teaching your primary grade students about community helpers and need engaging new materials? Or maybe you're teaching in the upper elementary grades where your students journey through the 13 colonies, the Revolutionary War, Civil War, or other historical events?
No matter the grade, this collection of teaching resources from Teach Starter's teacher team has curriculum-aligned options to help you cut down on the time-consuming task of lesson planning and help your elementary class meet both Common Core and state-level standards.
With editable options for many of the collection's digital and printable teaching resources, save yourself a ton of time with these ready-made social studies lesson plans.
Social Studies Lesson Plan Library
Our library contains thousands of resources designed by teachers for teachers to help you teach your primary level social studies topics, as well as upper elementary and middle school social studies curriculum. Find resources to teach a wide range of social studies topics, including
- Community helper teaching slides, printable community helper worksheets, and community helper crafts that make perfect additions to social studies for 1st grade
- Content-aligned task cards, games, printable maps, and teaching slide decks to teach American history for kids, along with printable Veterans Day Crafts, patriotic coloring sheets, World War II lesson plans PDF resources, and more
- Cross-curricular teaching resources including reading passages on Susan B. Anthony, Henry Ford worksheets, famous historical figure projects, and even anchor charts for social studies
- Printable blank maps of the 13 colonies, United States, continents of the world, and accompanying map skills worksheets
- Sorting activities, Google Interactives, active games, and worksheets covering wants and needs for primary grades
If you're looking for Social Studies games and resources specifically for higher grades, you'll find:
- Materials for teaching an entire Westward Expansion Unit — such as Westward Expansion worksheets, Lewis and Clark slide decks, vocabulary games, and even an Oregon Trail game to help you teach about early America
- Posters, anchor charts, interactive activities, and lesson plans for a unit on women's suffrage — discover female leaders of the time and their contributions to the passing of the 19th Amendment
- Government worksheets, mini books, and activities teaching the Bill of Rights for Kids
- Note taking-templates, worksheets, slide decks, and graphic organizers to uncover the causes of the American Revolution
Our Social Studies worksheet library spans a wide range of topics and social studies curriculum standards that are sure to save you a TON of time and cut back on the research and planning needed for engaging social studies lessons. Make sure you check out our 3rd-grade history, 4th-grade history, 5th-grade history, and 6th-grade history resources as well!
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Black History Month – Teaching Presentation
Introduce your students to the origins of Black History Month with this 13-slide PowerPoint presentation.
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MLK Day Vocabulary Activity
Build dictionary and vocabulary skills by identifying the meanings of words related to Martin Luther King, Jr. and civil rights.
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My Nobel Peace Prize – Upper Grades
Encourage students to think about how they could make the world a better place with our Nobel Peace Prize writing template.
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Blank Map of West Virginia Template
A blank map of West Virginia to use during Geography lessons.
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Blank Map of Wyoming Template
Download a blank Wyoming map for your lesson plans, student research projects and more!
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Map of Wisconsin Template
A blank map of Wisconsin to use during Geography lessons.
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Blank Map of Virginia Template
A blank map of Virginia to use during Geography lessons.
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Map of Tennessee Template
A blank map of Tennessee to use during Geography lessons.
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Map of Utah Template
A blank map of Utah to use during Geography lessons.
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Map of Vermont Template
A blank map of Vermont to use during Geography lessons.
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Map of Pennsylvania Template
A blank map of Pennsylvania to use during Geography lessons.
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Map of Rhode Island Template
Download a printable blank map of Rhode Island to use during geography and Ocean State history lessons.
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Blank Map of South Carolina Template
Use this printable blank map of South Carolina to during geography and Palmetto State history lessons.
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Blank Map of South Dakota Template
A blank map of South Dakota to use during Geography lessons.
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Map of North Dakota Template
A blank map of North Dakota to use during Geography lessons.
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Map of Ohio Template
A blank map of Ohio to use during Geography lessons.
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Blank Map of Oklahoma Template
A blank map of Oklahoma to use during Geography lessons.
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Map of Oregon Template
A blank map of Oregon to use during Geography lessons.
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Map of North Carolina Template
A blank map of North Carolina to use during Geography lessons.
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Blank Printable Map of New York
A blank printable map of New York State to use during Geography lessons.
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Map of New Mexico Template
A blank map of New Mexico to use during Geography lessons.
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Map of New Jersey Template
A blank map of New Jersey to use during Geography lessons.
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Map of New Hampshire Template
A blank map of New Hampshire to use during Geography lessons.
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Map of Nevada Template
A blank map of Nevada to use during Geography lessons.
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Map of Nebraska Template
A blank map of Nebraska to use during Geography lessons.
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Blank Map of Montana Template
A blank map of Montana to use during Geography lessons.
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Map of Missouri Template
A blank map of Missouri to use during Geography lessons.
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Map of Mississippi Template
A blank map of Mississippi to use during Geography lessons.
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Map of Minnesota Template
A blank map of Minnesota to use during Geography lessons.
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Map of Michigan Template
A blank map of Michigan to use during Geography lessons.
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Map of Massachusetts Template
A blank map of Massachusetts to use during Geography lessons.
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Map of Maryland Template
A blank map of Maryland to use during Geography lessons.
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