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Preschool - 2nd Grade Social Studies Lesson Plans

Would you like your students to understand some of the most iconic symbols in American culture? Well, you are in luck! This lesson will allow your students to explore important American symbols and their meanings. 

American Symbols

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

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

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

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

Ask Me How

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?

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

Build a Bug!

Going on a bear hunt...through, over, and across landforms!  Your students will learn about landforms as they participate in a story and play a game. 


Going on a Bear Hunt with Landforms

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

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!

Although they may need to wait before driving the real things, preschool students will love engaging with boats, trains, and buses as they learn more about different ways to get around. Honk, honk, choo-choo, and off to learn they’ll go!   

Getting Around: Transportation

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

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

On the road again! In this transportation-centered lesson, your class will learn how to identify common road signs.

Road Rules

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?

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

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

If you ask your students if they need ice cream, the answer may surprise you! In this lesson, your students will be able differentiate between wants and needs.

Do I Need It? Wants vs. Needs

This lesson is about Community Heroes. It describes what community heroes do. It gives your students a good idea of what makes community heroes special.

Heroes in Our Community

Children need to understand the differences between goods and services and why both of them are important. Children will learn that and more with this lesson that teaches them about everyone's roles in the economy.

Kindergarten Economics: Goods and Services

This lesson plan teaches kids about W.E.B. Du Bois through video and a short informational text. Students will compare/contrast their findings and create a poster in small groups showing what they learned.

Learning About W.E.B. Du Bois

In this lesson, students will have the chance to discuss community helpers! They will explore people who help them everyday and then complete an expressive activity.

Helpers in Our Community

In this lesson, students will learn about why dentists are community helpers. They will also get a chance to see why it is so important to keep their teeth clean!

Learning About the Dentist

Patriotism will abound as students learn more about the United States. After learning about its history, students will soon be seeing American flags everywhere with this lesson! 

A Classroom of Flags

Society and classrooms both require special helpers to keep things running smoothly. In this lesson, students will explore the people that help their community operate and take on some special jobs of their own to help in their classroom.

Community and Classroom Helpers

Kids will enjoy hearing the story On Market Street as they become familiar with goods and services. From apples to zippers, students will understand how people buy goods, and how others provide services in our lives. 

Goods and Services: On Market Street

Can your students call out the names of the continents? In this exciting lesson, students will learn the names of the major continents through an interactive process of word and map identification.

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Preschool - 2nd Grade Social Studies Lesson Plans