Social Studies Curriculum & Teaching Resources
ArtsQ aims to make world history accessible and fun for everyone by bringing it to life through art.
The Remedial Herstory Project is a New Hampshire based nonprofit founded and led by women educators and advocates under the advisement of women's historians and college professors working to get women's history into the primary and secondary curriculum, as well as our cultural competence.
Free High School Social Studies Teacher Resources That Tie In Pop Culture
From The Beatles to Beyoncé, from kindergarten to AP History TeachRock offers free lesson plans to inspire deep learning and understanding through the power of music.
Facing History & Ourselves uses lessons of history to challenge teachers and their students to stand up to bigotry and hate.
The Zinn Education Project promotes and supports the teaching of people’s history in classrooms across the country.
Resources for Creating or Exploring Maps & Geography
American Panorama is an historical atlas of the United States for the twenty-first century. It combines cutting-edge research with innovative interactive mapping techniques, designed to appeal to anyone with an interest in American history or a love of maps.
Historypin is a place for people to share photos and stories,telling the histories of their local communities.
National Geographic's MapMaker Interactive helps students to create and view interactive maps
A Closer Walk highlights and contextualizes musical sites in New Orleans, to advocate for their future, to celebrate their memory, and to honor the men and women who have shared their music with us.
Clio is your guide to the history and culture around you.
The interactive map builder
for every need
Social Studies Videos
HipHughes History is a series of upbeat, personable and educational lectures designed for students and lifelong learners. Videos primarily focus on US History and Politics but span across World History and general interest.
Search "Social Studies" for lots of social studies related videos and related lessons.
At Crash Course, we believe that high-quality educational videos should be available to everyone for free!
WYES and PBS have curated FREE, curriculum-aligned videos, interactives, lesson plans, and more for teachers like you.
We create documentary films that connect the past with the present.
Free video-based materials for social studies teachers.
Museum Tours & Interactive Exhibits
Explore a selection of sacred places and learn about the religious and cultural stories and values of people throughout the world.
Explore interactive features on their exhibits such as a reading a mummy mask and ancient portraits in clay.
Virtually visit museums all over the world.
The Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History virtual tours allow visitors to take self-guided, room-by-room tours of select exhibits and areas within the museum from their desktop or mobile.device. Visitors can also access select collections and research areas at our satellite support and research stations as well as past exhibits no longer on display.
Virtual Field Trips
No permission slips required! These virtual events let educators take
students to amazing places and give them remarkable experiences,
without ever leaving the classroom.
Virtual visits to many places around the world.
Games & Simulations
iCivics exists to engage students in meaningful civic learning.
Developed for use by middle school students in the classroom and beyond, Mission US is a deeply-researched, educational media project with proven impact on history learning.
Engaging Congress is a FREE, fun, interactive game that uses primary source documents to explore the basic tenets of representative government and the challenges they face in contemporary society.
Social Studies Content Texts
The Civics for All Comics Group is a collaboration between the NYC Department of Education and various comics creators to publish non-fiction graphic texts for educational use. The content is aligned with standards and expectations for social studies and civics instruction.
Project Gutenberg is a library of over 70,000 free eBooks.
Insert Learning allows you to put a question box or other instructional content on any webpage that you have students read.
ReadWorks provides research-based, classroom-tested reading comprehension curriculum for K–12.
Current Events
A website, and national teen magazine devoted entirely to teenage writing, art, photos, and forums.
We are a site for conversations. We invite youth of all ages to voice their thoughts about their passions, to explain things they understand well, to wonder about things they have just begun to understand, and to share discussion posts with other young people using as many different genres and media as they can imagine!
We receive over a million unique answers (and filter out multiple submissions) to our political issues survey per day and categorize the submissions by political affiliation, state, city, and referral website, as well as census data estimates by income, race, education, and household. Choose an issue below to start exploring.
AllSides aims to provide all sides of a current issue.
Our mission is to promote civility, critical thinking, education, and informed citizenship by presenting the pro and con arguments to debatable issues in a straightforward, nonpartisan, freely accessible way.
Social Studies Content
Free Resources and Activities to Support the Teaching of Landmark Supreme Court Cases
The 9/11 Memorial & Museum is committed to providing relevant and engaging learning opportunities for students, teachers, families, and the general public.
With Tenement Museum resources, students become historians. Using our teacher-designed, teacher-tested lesson plans, students engage in inquiry and learn to use critical thinking to interpret objects, oral histories, and primary sources, while making history relevant to today.
Discover the diverse history of the United States through the unique lens of Arlington National Cemetery.
The International Spy Museum is committed to educating students and educators about espionage in an engaging way and to providing a context that fosters understanding of its important role in and impact on current and historic events.
A network dedicated to building a culture of human rights