Social Studies Activities
Social studies activities to help show your child the fun side of learning! From easy social studies activities to more advanced, we've got you covered! Use the selector on the right to narrow your search by grade.
Travel the World with a Postcard Collection Map
Spark your childâs curiosity about the world by bringing geography to life with this exciting postcard map. In this ongoing activity, your child will track your family's travels and explore other countries vicariously through friends and pen pals.
Say "Huzzah" This Thanksgiving!
This Thanksgiving, teach your child how the pilgrims would have spoken to each other back in the 1620's, and some words that their new Native American neighbors might have taught them, too.
Map Your Family's Heritage
This family project is a fun way to teach your child about her heritage and practice her geography. You'll come away with a sense of community and a great Thanksgiving conversation piece!
Three Outdoor "Pilgrim" Games
When you're running off a big turkey dinner, your family may have traditions such as family football or pick-up basketball. But if you're interested in adding a historic theme, we've got three games that came from colonial times--and we think are still great fun today!
Do Some Cranberry Sauce Science!
It's food. It's Thanksgiving tradition. And guess what: Cranberry Sauce is also science!
Make Thanksgiving Teepee Place Cards
Keep your child busy and entertained this Thanksgiving by enlisting her to make the table's place cards! She'll be delighted to have such an important job and she'll improve her spelling and fine motor skills along the way.
The Mayflower Compact: Would You Sign?
After 66 days of being crammed into a 90 foot ship with 127 other people, you have finally reached land. Unfortunately, though, there is no sign of civilization as you know it. Would you sign the Mayflower Compact? Read it and see!
Three Kinds of Colonial Cornbread
Back in the 1620's, when our Mayflower ancestors were struggling to survive, corn became a lifesaver. But for the Pilgrims, "cornbread" wasn't necessarily the fluffy, cake-like mixture we eat today. Here are three recipes that harken back to those early times. Taste and explore!
Make a Thanksgiving Cornucopia
This Thanksgiving, make your own "horn of plenty" with your child while you teach him about the first Thanksgiving, the Fall harvest, and why we eat so much on Turkey Day.
Create an Autumn Tree of Resolutions
Celebrate the season by sharing your thoughts and resolutions for the fall with the family! Help your kindergartner develop her fine motor and communication skills with this fun and festive fall activity.
