Search 3rd Grade Informational Text Social Studies Educational Resources

Practice using a compass to find the directions!

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

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

Invite children to get to know their home state a little better with this series of questions and prompts.

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

Children will learn how to identify and use a compass rose, including finding a compass rose on a map, and using it to find both cardinal and intermediate directions.

Your young historian can step back in time and read about an important battle that helped to end the American Revolution.

Your students will use this resource to analyze their vocabulary words and relate them to other ideas and concepts. It is a great graphic organizer for all content areas.

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

Help your budding reader learn how to spice up a boring biography by asking him to add in the details that make good writing even better.

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.

This civics and government worksheet helps second and third graders learn facts about elections and practice identifying key vocabulary terms.

Children will practice identifying nonfiction text features in this worksheet about the life and legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr.

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

Children review and identify the Southern United States in this map-labeling worksheet.

In the worksheet Ideas of the Harlem Renaissance, children learn what this cultural movement was about, as well as some famous artists who emerged at the time.

Help your student memorize her 50 states region by region. This map needs its mid-western states to be filled in.

Students will read a short biography of Keller, then answer a thoughtful prompt designed to help them reflect on what they have read.

Help your child understand which tribal groups lived where with this Native American Tribes map.

Get to know scientist, artist, and activist Mae Jemsion in this reading comprehension worksheet!

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?

In this historical heroes worksheet, second and third graders read a short passage about Owens' life and legacy, then answer the comprehension questions to help determine their understanding.