Grades K-5
Social Studies Essentials
A ready-to-teach K-5 social studies program that combines structured units, a clear scope and sequence, and built-in assessments with C3-aligned inquiry. Social Studies Essentials helps teachers fit meaningful social studies into the elementary day while building students’ background knowledge, literacy, civic awareness, and critical thinking.
Discovery Education Experience
Grab-and-go, standards-aligned social studies lessons help elementary teachers lead exploration and discussion across civics, geography, history, culture, and communities with students. Organized by the topics teachers cover, Experience makes it easy to find engaging resources that build background knowledge, support literacy, and bring social studies to life.
Elementary Social Studies Lesson Plans
Ready-to-teach ideas for bringing civics, history, and community to life in grades K-5.
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Kindergarten
Community Helpers Lesson Plan
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Grade 1
Leadership Lesson Plan
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Discovery Education's hands-on activities and interactive resources change my students' engagement by taking them from being sitting in my classroom, listening to me speak, to being active investigators in their social studies lesson.
Henrico County Public Schools, VA
