Activities for Social Studies

Embark on a global adventure with our interactive world map. Explore, connect, and discover by placing pins and sharing interesting facts about yourself or locations. Let the exploration begin!

Students are curious kiddos. Teach them how to research with the GAS strategy. G - Goals, what do you want to learn? A - Answers, find the answers. S - Share, share what you learned. Knowing what they are supposed to look for helps them stay focused when searching for the answers. Then they can share what they learned by summarizing it real quick on the last page with a video, voice comment, or voice typing.

Help your child develop emotional awareness with our basic emotions worksheet! Designed for young learners, it teaches how to identify and express feelings.

A map of each continent is a valuable resource for students to learn geography.

A map of each continent is a valuable resource for students to learn geography.

Explore the world with our World Map Worksheet! Label continents, oceans, and countries to build your geography skills.

Use this template to show off student work and work on proper peer feedback with Sonia's Gallery Walk using the TAG strategy. T - Tell your classmates something you like about their work. A - Ask them a question about it. G - Give a suggestion for how they can improve their work. Students can place a snapshot, screenshot, video, or show their work in the space provided, and then peers can provide multimedia feedback on the side. Use Kami's Split and Merge to create a portfolio collaborative activity or to remove the directions page to assign individually, then merge them all together after the work is done.

Once the research is done and they know what the presentation is going to showcase, give students this template to help them make a simple presentation in a flash. They can insert images, text, draw on it, and even add stickers to make it fun! Then they can present with confidence!

A Circle of Support template is a tool used to document the people and resources in your network who provide support and encouragement.

Help your students develop emotional awareness with our basic emotions worksheet! Designed for young learners, it teaches how to identify and express feelings.

Use the Grid Method to create a student-centered, competency-based framework for any subject.

Use this template to discuss digital citizenship and how your students wish to behave while online. Discuss proper behaviors and inappropriate actions. Students can collaborate on page one, placing ideas with voice, video, and text. Then, use page two to place a complete pledge for students to sign with the drawing tool.

A map of each continent is a valuable resource for students to learn geography.

Rubrics are a must have when doing Project-based learning, but a Progress Assessment Tool can really place the experience in the hands of the students. While digging deeper into an Umbrella Question (driving question), students can write their own learning targets by a teacher giving them standards.

Steve Martinez has used this method to align the content standards, literacy, standards, CTE standards, or general skills that he wanted students to work on. Students write learning targets that will be used throughout the PBL unit, document how each learning target will be hit or mastered, and then have a column for feedback and reflection (self-reflection, peer-to-peer reflection, and/or teacher to student feedback).

Feel free to use as many or as little learning targets for the PBL unit of your choice. Steve would use this document to conference with students 1:1 or in small groups through the duration of a PBL unit. This document was inspired by the work of Ross Cooper and Erin Murphy.

A map of each continent is a valuable resource for students to learn geography.

This engaging activity allows students to create their own mini-podcasts celebrating Women’s History. Using Kami’s audio recording tool, students will explore an inspiring woman or theme in history, developing their research, storytelling, and public speaking skills.