1st - 5th Grade Social Studies Resources for 'critical thinking'

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Thinking Past and Present: Then and Now #2

Worksheet

Thinking Past and Present: Then and Now #2

First Grade

Social Studies

People used to use candles to light houses and quill pens to write letters. Challenge your child's logical thinking skills with this past and present worksheet.

Worksheet

Thinking Past and Present: Then and Now #2

Worksheet

Thinking Past and Present: Then and Now #2

People used to use candles to light houses and quill pens to write letters. Challenge your child's logical thinking skills with this past and present worksheet.

First Grade

Social Studies

Worksheet

Which of These Things Is Not Like the Other? (Part One)

Interactive Worksheet

Which of These Things Is Not Like the Other? (Part One)

Pre-K

Community and Culture

Children use their critical thinking skills and knowledge of community helpers to select the odd picture out.

Interactive Worksheet

Which of These Things Is Not Like the Other? (Part One)

Interactive Worksheet

Which of These Things Is Not Like the Other? (Part One)

Children use their critical thinking skills and knowledge of community helpers to select the odd picture out.

Pre-K

Community and Culture

Interactive Worksheet

This critical thinking worksheet, part of our upcoming A Day in the Life of the President workbook, challenges kids to plain their own campaign tour!

This critical thinking worksheet, part of our upcoming A Day in the Life of the President workbook, challenges kids to plain their own campaign tour!

Third Grade

Writing

Worksheet

Thinking Past and Present: Then and Now #1

Worksheet

Thinking Past and Present: Then and Now #1

First Grade

History

This worksheet helps your kid distinguish between life in the past and the present. He'll look at scenes from the past, then draw modern day equivalents.

Worksheet

Thinking Past and Present: Then and Now #1

Worksheet

Thinking Past and Present: Then and Now #1

This worksheet helps your kid distinguish between life in the past and the present. He'll look at scenes from the past, then draw modern day equivalents.

First Grade

History

Worksheet

The Branches of Government

Lesson Plan

The Branches of Government

Fifth Grade

Civics and Government

Teach your students about the people who decide which laws to pass. Activate the critical thinking skills of your students by having them decide the laws that they would like to modify!

Lesson Plan

The Branches of Government

Lesson Plan

The Branches of Government

Teach your students about the people who decide which laws to pass. Activate the critical thinking skills of your students by having them decide the laws that they would like to modify!

Fifth Grade

Civics and Government

Lesson Plan

Thinking Past and Present: Long Ago or Today?

Worksheet

Thinking Past and Present: Long Ago or Today?

First Grade

Social Studies

Kids learn that how we live today is different than how we lived in the past by labeling each picture of everyday life as from today or long ago.

Worksheet

Thinking Past and Present: Long Ago or Today?

Worksheet

Thinking Past and Present: Long Ago or Today?

Kids learn that how we live today is different than how we lived in the past by labeling each picture of everyday life as from today or long ago.

Community and Culture

Help your students make the connection between what they're learning in school and how adults use math in everyday life with this art lesson. Students will sharpen their critical thinking skills and share their ideas for the future.

Community and Culture

Lesson Plan

What Happens and Why: Matching

Interactive Worksheet

What Happens and Why: Matching

Kindergarten

Social Studies Skills

Help young learners make connections and build their logical thinking with this visual cause and effect activity!

Interactive Worksheet

What Happens and Why: Matching

Interactive Worksheet

What Happens and Why: Matching

Help young learners make connections and build their logical thinking with this visual cause and effect activity!

Kindergarten

Social Studies Skills

Interactive Worksheet

Reflective Writing Prompt: Ramadan

Worksheet

Reflective Writing Prompt: Ramadan

Fourth Grade

Writing

How can you care for your community? Get students thinking deeply with this engaging Ramadan-themed writing prompt!

Worksheet

Reflective Writing Prompt: Ramadan

Worksheet

Reflective Writing Prompt: Ramadan

How can you care for your community? Get students thinking deeply with this engaging Ramadan-themed writing prompt!

Fourth Grade

Writing

Worksheet

Reflective Writing Prompt: Lunar New Year

Worksheet

Reflective Writing Prompt: Lunar New Year

Fourth Grade

Writing

Celebrate Lunar New Year by gaining new knowledge and thinking about new beginnings!

Worksheet

Reflective Writing Prompt: Lunar New Year

Worksheet

Reflective Writing Prompt: Lunar New Year

Celebrate Lunar New Year by gaining new knowledge and thinking about new beginnings!

Can you guess the job? Put your thinking cap on and solve these fun career riddles created for kindergarteners and first graders!

Can you guess the job? Put your thinking cap on and solve these fun career riddles created for kindergarteners and first graders!

Kindergarten

Economics

Worksheet

What Belongs? Describing the Beach

Worksheet

What Belongs? Describing the Beach

Kindergarten

Geography

Use your logical thinking and observation skills to describe a place in this colorful worksheet!

Worksheet

What Belongs? Describing the Beach

Worksheet

What Belongs? Describing the Beach

Use your logical thinking and observation skills to describe a place in this colorful worksheet!

Kindergarten

Geography

Worksheet

How Many Ancestors Do You Have?

Worksheet

How Many Ancestors Do You Have?

Second Grade

Community and Culture

This family tree activity helps gets kids thinking about just how many people it took to get them where they are today.

Worksheet

How Many Ancestors Do You Have?

Worksheet

How Many Ancestors Do You Have?

This family tree activity helps gets kids thinking about just how many people it took to get them where they are today.

Second Grade

Community and Culture

Worksheet

Make a Travel Journal

Activity

Make a Travel Journal

Fourth Grade

Reading

Help your kids put together a travel journal for your family's next vacation to get them reading, writing, and thinking about what's happening on the trip.

Activity

Make a Travel Journal

Activity

Make a Travel Journal

Help your kids put together a travel journal for your family's next vacation to get them reading, writing, and thinking about what's happening on the trip.

Community and Culture

This Haggadah scroll activity is great for getting kids to practice handwriting, but it will also get them thinking about the meaning behind Passover.

This Haggadah scroll activity is great for getting kids to practice handwriting, but it will also get them thinking about the meaning behind Passover.

Third Grade

Community and Culture

Activity

Community Helpers

Interactive Worksheet

Community Helpers

Kindergarten

Community and Culture

What is a service job? This worksheet helps your students think critically about the different jobs people have and what they do in those jobs.

Interactive Worksheet

Community Helpers

Interactive Worksheet

Community Helpers

What is a service job? This worksheet helps your students think critically about the different jobs people have and what they do in those jobs.

Kindergarten

Community and Culture

Interactive Worksheet

History buffs, here's a sheet that will teach you all about Fort Des Moines, an important military training site during WWI and WWII.

History buffs, here's a sheet that will teach you all about Fort Des Moines, an important military training site during WWI and WWII.

Calling all history students, here's a beautiful structure from the U.S. National Register of Historic Places, the 'Iolani Palace in Hawaii.

Calling all history students, here's a beautiful structure from the U.S. National Register of Historic Places, the 'Iolani Palace in Hawaii.

There are nuggets of California history in this here workbook! The California Gold Rush sets the stage to practice reading and social studies skills.

There are nuggets of California history in this here workbook! The California Gold Rush sets the stage to practice reading and social studies skills.

Fourth Grade

Social Studies

Workbook

Presidential Potpourri

Workbook

Presidential Potpourri

Second Grade

Social Studies Skills

Learn about presidents Washington, Lincoln and Obama. Reading quizzes, writing in academic formats, color-by-numbers, history timelines and designing monuments: This workbook has it all!

Workbook

Presidential Potpourri

Workbook

Presidential Potpourri

Learn about presidents Washington, Lincoln and Obama. Reading quizzes, writing in academic formats, color-by-numbers, history timelines and designing monuments: This workbook has it all!

Second Grade

Social Studies Skills

Workbook

Cities Around the World: Fact or Opinion?

Interactive Worksheet

Cities Around the World: Fact or Opinion?

Third Grade

Social Studies Skills

Is Sydney, Australia, really the best place to vacation, or is that an opinion? Figure out the difference with this third- and fourth-grade worksheet!

Interactive Worksheet

Cities Around the World: Fact or Opinion?

Interactive Worksheet

Cities Around the World: Fact or Opinion?

Is Sydney, Australia, really the best place to vacation, or is that an opinion? Figure out the difference with this third- and fourth-grade worksheet!

Third Grade

Social Studies Skills

Interactive Worksheet

Community and Culture

Learn to read a family tree with this family relationships chart.

Learn to read a family tree with this family relationships chart.

Second Grade

Community and Culture

Worksheet

The Declaration of Independence

Worksheet

The Declaration of Independence

Third Grade

Civics and Government

On this worksheet, students read about this important historical document and complete the sentences using what they learned.

Worksheet

The Declaration of Independence

Worksheet

The Declaration of Independence

On this worksheet, students read about this important historical document and complete the sentences using what they learned.

Third Grade

Civics and Government

Learn about Valley Forge, an important historical site of the American Revolutionary War, with a great info sheet!

Learn about Valley Forge, an important historical site of the American Revolutionary War, with a great info sheet!

Fourth Grade

History

Worksheet

States in Alphabetical Order

Worksheet

States in Alphabetical Order

Fifth Grade

Geography

You've learned your states...now see if you can recall them from memory!

Worksheet

States in Alphabetical Order

Worksheet

States in Alphabetical Order

You've learned your states...now see if you can recall them from memory!

Fifth Grade

Geography

Worksheet

History of the Louisiana Purchase

Worksheet

History of the Louisiana Purchase

Fifth Grade

History

Your budding history buff can learn about American history and geography all in one with this Louisiana Purchase activity!

Worksheet

History of the Louisiana Purchase

Worksheet

History of the Louisiana Purchase

Your budding history buff can learn about American history and geography all in one with this Louisiana Purchase activity!

History buffs and fiction lovers alike will enjoy learning about legendary writer Mark Twain with this Wild West worksheet!

History buffs and fiction lovers alike will enjoy learning about legendary writer Mark Twain with this Wild West worksheet!

Fifth Grade

Writing

Worksheet

Freedom Trail, Boston

Worksheet

Freedom Trail, Boston

Third Grade

History

Check out this awesome history sheet featuring the Freedom Trail, a historical walk in Boston.

Worksheet

Freedom Trail, Boston

Worksheet

Freedom Trail, Boston

Check out this awesome history sheet featuring the Freedom Trail, a historical walk in Boston.

Use this worksheet to show how historical maps reflect what people thought of the world long ago.

Use this worksheet to show how historical maps reflect what people thought of the world long ago.

Fourth Grade

Geography

Worksheet

Presidio of San Francisco

Worksheet

Presidio of San Francisco

Third Grade

History

For those of you studying California history, here's a great history worksheet all about the Presidio of San Francisco!

Worksheet

Presidio of San Francisco

Worksheet

Presidio of San Francisco

For those of you studying California history, here's a great history worksheet all about the Presidio of San Francisco!

Third Grade

History

Worksheet

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