2nd and 3rd Grade Common Core Social Studies Worksheets

Practice identifying and interpreting nonfiction text features in this worksheet about the life and legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr.

In this Martin Luther King Jr. Cut-and-Paste Timeline worksheet, students will learn about the life of an important historical figure.

Use this worksheet to help your child learn a little bit about the North Pole!

Children read a brief history of fireworks, then answer a series of questions designed to help them reflect on what they have learned.

Give budding historians practice reading and interpreting timelines with this engaging social studies worksheet!

Learn about George Washington with this reading comprehension challenge.

Use this reading passage to practice reading comprehension with your learners.

Help your child visualize the passing of time in this easy timeline craft.

Challenge your students to demonstrate their understanding of rural, urban, and suburban communities with this vocabulary worksheet.

Learn about the USA's three branches of government and where each one works.

In this inventive map-reading worksheet, children will practice using a map and a legend to uncover information.

Get to know the White House and the U.S. Capitol in this social studies matching worksheet!

Ask students to read an interesting biography about Dr. Mae Jemison and then answer questions about the text!

Your young learner will discover the basics of local government with this worksheet all about municipalities.

Practice telling time across time zones with this hands-on geography and map worksheet!

With this worksheet your third graders will enjoy learning important facts about the Statue of Liberty and strengthen their vocabulary.

Use this fun and interesting worksheets about maps to help your students use sentence level context clues, examples, and logic to decode text and become more fluent in reading informational text.

Learn how the animals of the Chinese Zodiac came to be with this Chinese New Year folktale! 

Children use their investigative skills and powers of deduction to complete a series of questions and prompts about their local government.  

Children learn about the life and legacy of civil rights activist Rosa Parks in this history worksheet.

Learn the basic facts about the U.S. flag and see the different places where it's waved.

Track important events in the life of an important woman with this Sojourner Truth timeline, a great way to get used to reading and writing nonfiction.

Use this civics and government worksheet to help second and third graders learn about elections!

Get your rafts ready, it's time to take a trip down the major rivers of the United States! Read the clues to figure out how to lable each river on this map.

Children are introduced to the life and accomplishments of aeronautics pioneer Amelia Earhart in this fascinating worksheet.

Learn what time zones are, and how to use them to calculate time across regions, in this math-meets-geography worksheet.

Help your budding reader learn how to spice up a boring biography by asking him to add in the details that make good writing even better.

Children read the First Amendment, then complete a simple word scramble puzzle and answer reading comprehension questions.

Children discover what community service is, along with examples, in this thoughtful worksheet.

Get to know pioneering astrophysicist and mathematician Katherine Johnson in this reading comprehension worksheet!