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1st - 5th Grade Social Studies Lesson Plans

Kinesthetic and visual learners will greatly enjoy this playful lesson. Using symbols and gestures, students explore the characteristics of various United States landforms.

The Language of Landforms

Use this lesson to show your students that dreams can become reality with dedication and determination. This lesson will teach them about a man who made his dream come true by standing firm in front of the most challenging obstacles.

Martin Luther King, Jr.: I Have A Dream

Students will learn about the different kinds of houses people live in around the world and how they relate to a culture, environment, and country. 

Houses and Homes Around the World

Teach your students to recognize systems in the world around them by identifying systems that exist in their classroom.

Exploring Systems with a Classroom Systems Hunt

Excite your students with knowledge of the past by showing them a film and pretending to live in the past! In this lesson, your students will learn about the Stone Age.


Stone Age

Help your students become global citizens with this lesson that teaches the about culture. Students will explore their culture and the cultures of their classmates in this engaging, hands-on activity.

What is Culture?

Use this lesson to teach your students about the major bodies of water by letting them create miniature versions of their own!

Bodies Of Water

Aid your students in becoming the best citizens they can be with this lesson that teaches students how to be, and what makes, a good citizen.

What is a Good Citizen?

In this hands on activity students will explore the advantages and disadvantages of specialization and interdependence through their creation of paper bugs.

Build a Bug!

Through examples and non-examples, students will learn what qualifies as a region. Creativity and problem solving skills will be put to the test as students determine the necessary elements that make up a region.  

What is a Region?

Have you ever had to explain to someone where something is? Learning to create a map is a fun way to show where objects and places are.

Classroom Map

Use this lesson to teach your students how people survived in the New England colonies when they were first created.


The New England Colonies: Economy

Have your students experience the act of trading goods and services with bartering. In this activity, students will have the opportunity to make a deal, in order to get what they want. Better yet, make a deal without spending a cent!

Goods and Services: Let's Make a Deal!

Benjamin Franklin wasn't just a Founding Father of the United States of America—he was so much more. In this lesson, students will learn how Ben Franklin changed the shape of Philadelphia.

Ben Franklin

Through creative and engaging activities, your students will explore and learn about landforms. In this lesson, they will make their own mini dictionary of landforms.

All About Landforms

In this lesson, your students will use their imaginations to picture why all communities need laws. Help them brainstorm the important role that laws and rules play in a variety of communities through these engaging activities.

Law of the Land

Give students an opportunity to show what they know! In this lesson, students will review key terms and construct a map of a familiar place. Whether it’s school or home, or a make believe place, students will enjoy mapping their world.

Mapping My World

In this lesson, students will develop an understanding of communities and will learn how to locate their communities on a map.

My Community and I

Mae Jemison was the first African American female astronaut to enter space. Use the Get to Know Mae Jemison lesson plan to learn more about this famous scientist. Children will then read and write about her, and create their own paper rocket.

Get to Know Mae Jemison

Mae Jemison was the first African American female astronaut to enter space! Use the Who Is Mae Jemison? lesson plan to get to know this prominent scientist and entrepreneur. Students will read about Mae and then answer questions about her.

Who Is Mae Jemison?

How? In this lesson, your students will become familiar with using this question word to investigate how things work.

Ask Me How

Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz was a 17th century writer and philosopher who today is considered one of the first documented feminists and advocates for women’s education. In this lesson, students will read two nonfiction texts about Sor Juana and discuss her life and accomplishments before writing an opinion piece about her. 

Writing Opinions About Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz

In this lesson, your students will learn about their roles as consumers and producers in a community through engaging activities and discussion.

Are You a Producer or a Consumer?

In this lesson, Significance of "Let Freedom Ring" in MLK, Jr.'s Speech, students will be able to understand the allusion Martin Luther King, Jr. makes to the song "My Country 'Tis of Thee." Have students discuss allusions in this speech.

Significance of "Let Freedom Ring" in MLK, Jr.'s Speech

What kinds of homes do we live in? In this lesson, students will explore and describe different types of homes. By the end of this lesson, students will have created a visual of their own homes and write about them!

Here Are Our Homes

This engaging lesson plan provides students with an opportunity to learn all about America's prima ballerina, Maria Tallchief.

Learning About Maria Tallchief

Spirituals have a long history in the United States, and often serve to strengthen and motivate people. Students will compare three types of spirituals from different time periods and share their understanding with their peers.

Understand African American Spirituals

Students will use their artistic and directional skills as they practice drawing maps and giving directions. By the time it’s done, everyone will know which way is the right way to go!

Plan That Trip

It’s not a bird! It’s not a plane! It’s a Super Citizen! In this superhero lesson on citizenship, students will learn about the concepts of good citizenship while simultaneously getting a lesson on positive behavior! 

Superhero Citizens

From teachers to farmers, many people and things together comprise a community. In this social studies lesson, students will identify and illustrate their dream community by making a pop-up card.

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1st - 5th Grade Social Studies Lesson Plans