1st Grade History Resources

Inspire kids to learn about black changemakers all year by displaying this poster at home or in the classroom.

Celebrate Black History Month with this coloring page dedicated to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., one of the most important figures in Civil Rights history!

Young children are introduced to civil rights leader and Nobel Peace Prize winner Martin Luther King, Jr. with this coloring worksheet.

Ask students to read an interesting biography about Dr. Mae Jemison and then answer questions about the text!

Children practice differentiating between past and present in this Venn diagram sorting activity.

Celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month with this inspiring poster!

This coloring page features Jackie Robinson, a baseball player that paved the way for many great talents in baseball.

Young learners will enjoy tracing, coloring, and assembling this mini book about astronaut and scientist Mae Jemison.

Featuring artists, dreamers, rebels, and entrepreneurs, this Women Who Dared to Dream poster showcases a selection of women from around the world paved the way for others.

Check out a fun and simple Olympic timeline which highlights some of the most memorable moments throughout history.

Color in a picture of George Washington according to the color-by-number guide.

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.

Inspire kids to learn about Asian American heroes all year by displaying this poster at home or in the classroom.

This coloring page features a master painting that you may recognize: the Mona Lisa!

Get acquainted with one of our nation's most famous buildings, the Washington Monument, by building a small paper model!

Celebrate Black History Month with a coloring page of Frederick Douglass - a social reformer, writer and eloquent speaker.

Color one of the most famous and significant presidents of all time, Abraham Lincoln.

Use this worksheet to help students write sentences about the first African American women to enter space, Mae Jemison.

This worksheet is a brief introduction to the human rights activist and feminist Dorothy Pitman Hughes.

One of the most influential singers of the modern era, Billie Holiday is respected and revered by fans and musicians all over the world.

This page is both informative and fun to color--a double whammy! Whether your second grader's Jewish or not, you can help her learn all about the Seder plate.

Eleanor changed the definition of the First Lady -- she used her status and wealth to help change the lives of those less fortunate.

If your learning is an animal lover, give them this inspiring coloring page of one of the most famous scientists of the 20th century!

Give your first grader a beginning lesson in history. He'll need to identify each form of communication and put them in order from most recent to oldest.

This Rosa Parks coloring page will give you an opportunity to discuss a brave woman's historic act of defiance with your first grader.

Start learning basic concepts of history with a Venn Diagram activity! Your child will consider objects we've used in the past and the present.