All Social Studies Units

Explore a menu of Social Studies unit plans from PreK–Grade 8, featuring engaging, standards-aligned lessons that build historical and civic understanding.

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Kindergarten Social Studies Units

Unit Plan 22 (Grade K Social Studies): Stories from the Past

Stories from long ago come alive as children explore real people and places, use pictures and maps as sources, and practice retelling key details with simple sequence words.

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Unit Plan 21 (Grade K Social Studies): Important People and Holidays

Important people and holidays that teach fairness, freedom, and helping others, while introducing children to leaders and helpers who keep communities safe.

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Unit Plan 20 (Grade K Social Studies): Long Ago and Today

Compare past and present through transportation, communication, and homes, helping kindergarteners identify changes using pictures, materials, workers, and simple timelines.

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Unit Plan 19 (Grade K Social Studies): Our Daily Timeline

Help children understand daily routines by sequencing school-day events using “first,” “next,” and “last,” building simple timelines to strengthen time awareness and order.

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Kindergarten Social Studies Units

Unit Plan 18 (Grade K Social Studies): Midyear Inquiry Project—My World

A kindergarten unit where students create a “My World” class book using maps, helpers, weather, and caring-for-places to show understanding of their home, school, and community.

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Unit Plan 17 (Grade K Social Studies): Different Kinds of Homes and Places

Explore how different homes reflect their environments, materials, and cultures while helping kindergarteners compare where people live around the world.

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Unit Plan 16 (Grade K Social Studies): School and Community Symbols

Explore how school and community symbols—like flags, mascots, songs, and signs—teach belonging, respect, and teamwork through listening, sharing, and simple voting.

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Unit Plan 15 (Grade K Social Studies): Family Traditions and Celebrations

Celebrate family traditions with kindness—this unit helps kindergarteners share, compare, and respect diverse celebrations while learning about important people and holidays.

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Unit Plan 14 (Grade K Social Studies): Caring for Our Environment

Teach children to respect and care for shared spaces by keeping classrooms, playgrounds, and nature clean through simple, responsible daily actions.

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Unit Plan 13 (Grade K Social Studies): Weather and the World Around Us

Weather unit for kindergarten where children observe daily conditions, explore local features, and learn how weather affects clothing, activities, and caring for places.

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Unit Plan 12 (Grade K Social Studies): Our Neighborhood on a Map

Explore neighborhood places with simple maps as kids learn to identify buildings, parks, and roads and understand how human-made features help communities.

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Unit Plan 11 (Grade K Social Studies): Position and Direction Words

Position-word–focused kindergarten geography unit teaching children to use terms like above, below, next to, behind, in front of, and near to describe locations, map features, and simple routes using bodies, objects, and classroom scenes.

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Unit Plan 10 (Grade K Social Studies): My Classroom Map

Discover how to teach kindergarteners to create simple classroom maps using symbols, legends, and position words, helping them build early geography and direction-giving skills.

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Unit Plan 9 (Grade K Social Studies): Community Helpers Around Us

Help children recognize community helpers, understand the goods and services they provide, and learn why their jobs are important in keeping our school and neighborhood safe.

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Unit Plan 8 (Grade K Social Studies): My Family and My Home

Help children describe their families and homes, explore how families care for one another, and share simple traditions—all through drawings, discussions, and a “My Family and My Home” mini-book.

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Unit Plan 7 (Grade K Social Studies): Our School and Neighborhood

Help children explore familiar school and neighborhood places, learn what people do there, and create simple maps using symbols, legends, and position words like “next to” and “behind.”

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Unit Plan 6 (Grade K Social Studies): Asking Questions About Our World

Help children ask and answer questions about familiar people, places, and routines using who, what, where, and why, building inquiry skills through observation and simple sources.

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Unit Plan 5 (Grade K Social Studies): Classroom Symbols & Our Flag

Introduce young learners to the U.S. flag, school symbols, and classroom icons while teaching simple meanings and respectful ways to honor important symbols and holidays.

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Unit Plan 4 (Grade K Social Studies): Working and Helping Together

Help kindergarteners build teamwork through class jobs, sharing, taking turns, and simple voting, ending with a class-created “Teamwork Promise” for a caring community.

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Unit Plan 3 (Grade K Social Studies): Helpers in Our School

Meet the helpers who keep school running—kids learn what each adult does, explore goods vs. services, and create a class book celebrating their school community.

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Unit Plan 2 (Grade K Social Studies): Rules and Routines Matter

Help kindergarteners understand why rules and routines matter through observations, stories, and a class-made rule poster that supports safety, fairness, and community.

Kindergarten Social Studies Units

Unit Plan 1 (Grade K Social Studies): Building Our Classroom Community

Build a safe, kind classroom community as kindergarteners learn rules, routines, and responsibility through stories, role-play, and shared Class Promise creation.

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Grade 1 Social Studies Units

Unit Plan 36 (Grade 1 Social Studies): Cumulative Synthesis & Exhibition

Help students review key civics, geography, history, and economics concepts by creating maps, timelines, helper posters, and citizenship displays for a culminating classroom Civic Fair.

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Grade 1 Social Studies Units

Unit Plan 35 (Grade 1 Social Studies): Citizenship in Action

Guide first graders to practice everyday citizenship through kindness, fairness, listening, sharing, problem solving, and simple voting, ending with a “Citizenship in Action” poster.

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Grade 1 Social Studies Units

Unit Plan 34 (Grade 1 Social Studies): Helping Our World and Each Other

Empower first graders to make a difference through a simple class service project that builds responsibility, respect, inclusion, and informed community action.