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All About Landforms

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.

2nd grade

Social studies

Lesson Plan

Rocket Like Mae Jemison

Activity

Rocket Like Mae Jemison

Craft a paper rocket in this hands-on activity inspired by the life of Mae Jemison!

2nd grade

Social studies

Activity

Make a Timeline of an Influential Person

Activity

Make a Timeline of an Influential Person

Children research and make a timeline of an inspiring woman in this biography activity.

2nd grade

Social studies

Activity

My Community and I

Lesson Plan

My Community and I

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

2nd grade

Social studies

Lesson Plan

Find Your Way Around a Map

Worksheet

Find Your Way Around a Map

This simple geography sheet is lots of fun and a great way to introduce your kid to reading maps

2nd grade

Social studies

Worksheet

Reading Comprehension: Frederick Douglass

Worksheet

Reading Comprehension: Frederick Douglass

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

2nd grade

Social studies

Worksheet

Learning Directions

Worksheet

Learning Directions

Here's a fun exercise with directions, north, south, east and west! Using the town map, she'll practice determining the directions of locations.

2nd grade

Social studies

Worksheet

All About Katherine Johnson

Worksheet

All About Katherine Johnson

Introduce your second and third graders to the inspiring mathematician and physicist Katherine Johnson. After reading a short biography, children will use what they've learned to answer nonfiction comprehension questions about the text.

2nd grade

Social studies

Worksheet

Presidential Quiz

Worksheet

Presidential Quiz

Take a quiz on basic facts about U.S. history and government.

2nd grade

Social studies

Worksheet

Different Communities

Lesson Plan

Different Communities

What's the difference? In this lesson, your students will learn to describe what living in an urban, rural, and a suburban area is like.

2nd grade

Reading & Writing

Lesson Plan

Natural Resources for Kids

Workbook

Natural Resources for Kids

Count on this vocabulary-focused resource as the go-to workbook all about natural resources! Write, research and get a breakdown of the world around by the natural resources we need and use.

2nd grade

Social studies

Workbook

George Washington Facts

Worksheet

George Washington Facts

Learn about George Washington with this reading comprehension challenge.

2nd grade

Social studies

Worksheet

What is a Compass Rose?

Worksheet

What is a Compass Rose?

Teach your budding geographer to navigate the directions with this fun compass rose activity. He'll learn about the cardinal directions and more!

2nd grade

Social studies

Worksheet

Who Is Mae Jemison?

Lesson Plan

Who Is 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.

2nd grade

Reading & Writing

Lesson Plan

National Symbols: The Declaration of Independence

Worksheet

National Symbols: The Declaration of Independence

Help your child learn more about her American heritage with these coloring pages that are chock-full of history featuring the Declaration of Independence.

2nd grade

Social studies

Worksheet

Amelia Earhart Biography

Worksheet

Amelia Earhart Biography

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

2nd grade

Social studies

Worksheet

National Symbols: The Statue of Liberty

Worksheet

National Symbols: The Statue of Liberty

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?

2nd grade

Social studies

Worksheet

Presidential Potpourri

Workbook

Presidential Potpourri

Learn about presidents Washington, Lincoln and Obama. Reading quizzes, writing in academic formats, color-by-numbers, history timelines and designing monuments: This workbook has it all!

2nd grade

Social studies

Workbook

Who Is Mae Jemison?

Worksheet

Who Is Mae Jemison?

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

2nd grade

Social studies

Worksheet

Biography Booklet

Worksheet

Biography Booklet

Kindergarteners through second graders can use this versatile Biography Booklet printable to research and write about someone in booklet form.

2nd grade

Social studies

Worksheet

Tracing Your Roots: Genealogy

Workbook

Tracing Your Roots: Genealogy

This book is about family, big or small! Use it to help kids jot down notes about where their first name came from, where family has been and learn to ask questions in an interview.

2nd grade

Social studies

Workbook

Learning About Maps!

Worksheet

Learning About Maps!

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.

2nd grade

Social studies

Worksheet

Learning About W.E.B. Du Bois

Lesson Plan

Learning About W.E.B. Du Bois

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.

2nd grade

Reading & Writing

Lesson Plan

All About Misty Copeland

Worksheet

All About Misty Copeland

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.

2nd grade

Social studies

Worksheet