Preschool - 3rd Grade Common Core Social Studies Resources

Practice identifying and interpreting nonfiction text features in this worksheet about the life and legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr.

Help your first grader learn basic terms for position and direction. He'll practice identifying left or right, as well as the cardinal directions, and more!

Children read a brief history of fireworks, then answer a series of questions designed to help them reflect on what they have learned.

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

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

Learn about George Washington with this reading comprehension challenge.

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

Give budding historians practice reading and interpreting timelines with this engaging social studies worksheet!

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

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

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.

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

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

Teach your little leprechaun about the various St. Patrick's Day traditions and other fun parts of this special Irish heritage day.

In this Martin Luther King Jr. Cut-and-Paste Timeline worksheet, students will learn about the life of an important historical figure.

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

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

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

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

Your young learner will discover the basics of local government with this worksheet all about municipalities.

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

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

In this playful matching activity, learners will connect workers to their tools and equipment by drawing lines from each job title to the correct corresponding item.

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.

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