History/Social Studies Curriculum
Take your students on a virtual scavenger hunt to the National Museum of Natural History – all without leaving your class or home!
Use DocsTeach to teach with documents using the National Archives online tool. Locate teachable primary sources. Find new and favorite lessons and create your own activities for your students.
No permission slips required. These virtual events let educators take students to amazing places and give them remarkable experiences, without ever leaving the classroom.
Designed for grades 5-8 but customizable for all ages, virtual field trips allow students to travel the world and explore natural environments without leaving the classroom. Each virtual field trip contains a video, teacher guide, and student activities.
Get up close and personal with parks through virtual tours. Learn more about the history of these legendary places and how essential their protection and preservation is in ensuring these sites are enjoyed for generations to come.
Explore popular Social Science study sets on Quizlet. Study Social Science topics like Economics, Political Science and Psychology. Learn what you need to get good grades in Social Science classes. Memorize important Social Science terms, definitions and concepts. Prepare for Social Science homework and exams with free online flashcards, diagrams, study guides and practice tests.
The graphic memoir They Called Us Enemy by George Takei is a great resource for teaching the Japanese American World War II experience. JANM is proud to share a teacher’s guide they developed for IDW Publishing to accompany Takei’s book.
To help educators integrate Black History Month into their classrooms, NEA offers a selection of lesson plans that cover a variety subjects and that can be adapted to fit multiple grade levels.
Democracy Class is a free, nonpartisan curriculum that educates high school students about the importance and history of voting and pre-registers and registers them to vote. Educators will have access to additional lesson plans featuring the history and importance of voting, modern-day voting rights, the importance of local elections, how voting can impact issues in communities, and the 2020 Census
Curriculum on Native Nations and how to help students understand what they see in the news.
After reading this article students will be able to explore examples of Pulitzer Center-supported reporting in which the reporter used family history to frame or complement a story, define oral history and learn about the techniques and value of oral history by looking at examples used in reporting, connect historical events to events in their family or community history, and use oral history skills to carry out their own interviews at home or in their community.
The 1619 Project, inaugurated with a special issue of The New York Times Magazine, challenges us to reframe U.S. history by marking the year when the first enslaved Africans arrived on Virginia soil as our nation’s foundational date. Here you will find reading guides, activities, and other resources to bring The 1619 Project into your classroom.