2nd Grade Common Core Social Studies Resources

Use this reading passage to practice reading comprehension with your learners.

Challenge your students to demonstrate their understanding of rural, urban, and suburban communities with this vocabulary worksheet.

Learn about George Washington with this reading comprehension challenge.

Help your child visualize the passing of time in this easy timeline craft.

Use this civics and government worksheet to help second and third graders learn about elections!

In this inventive map-reading worksheet, children will practice using a map and a legend to uncover information.

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

Learn about the USA's three branches of government and where each one works.

Children are introduced to the life and accomplishments of aeronautics pioneer Amelia Earhart in this fascinating worksheet.

Children use their investigative skills and powers of deduction to complete a series of questions and prompts about their local government.  

Children learn about the life and legacy of civil rights activist Rosa Parks in this history worksheet.

Learn the basic facts about the U.S. flag and see the different places where it's waved.

Get to know the White House and the U.S. Capitol in this social studies matching worksheet!

Use this fun and interesting worksheets about maps to help your students use sentence level context clues, examples, and logic to decode text and become more fluent in reading informational text.

Get your rafts ready, it's time to take a trip down the major rivers of the United States! Read the clues to figure out how to lable each river on this map.

Use this nonfiction comprehension worksheet to help second and third graders learn all about Misty Copeland, the first African American woman to become a principal dancer at the American Ballet Theatre.

Get to know pioneering astrophysicist and mathematician Katherine Johnson in this reading comprehension worksheet!

Families in the United States live in all different settings. Kids think about the similarities and differences between rural and urban life on this worksheet.

The 5 Great Lakes consist of Lake Superior, Michigan, Huron, Erie, and Ontario. Challenge your child with these basic trivia questions!

Children discover what community service is, along with examples, in this thoughtful worksheet.

Find presidential and historical words in this election-themed word search.

Read the text to this page aloud to your child as she colors, and talk about your family's heritage. Did her ancestors sail past The Statue of Liberty?

This longitude and latitude worksheet challenges kids to find the locations of cities on a map. Practice geography with this longitude and latitude worksheet.

Track important events in the life of an important woman with this Sojourner Truth timeline, a great way to get used to reading and writing nonfiction.

Learn how the animals of the Chinese Zodiac came to be with this Chinese New Year folktale! 

Children read the First Amendment, then complete a simple word scramble puzzle and answer reading comprehension questions.