Preschool - 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.

Teach your little leprechaun about the various St. Patrick's Day traditions and other fun parts of this special Irish heritage day.

Help your first grader learn basic terms for position and direction. He'll practice identifying left or right, as well as the cardinal directions, and more!

Children use their critical thinking skills and knowledge of community helpers to select the odd picture out.

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

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

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.

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

Learn about George Washington with this reading comprehension challenge.

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

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

What is a service job? This worksheet helps your students think critically about the different jobs people have and what they do in those jobs.

Children practice differentiating between past and present in this Venn diagram sorting activity.

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

Use this nonfiction comprehension worksheet to help second and third graders learn all about Misty Copeland, the first African American woman to become a principal dancer at the American Ballet Theatre.

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

We all love a good prank on April Fools' Day, but how did April 1st come to symbolize such silliness? Find out with this reading worksheet!

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

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

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

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

In this playful matching activity, learners will connect workers to their tools and equipment by drawing lines from each job title to the correct corresponding item.

Children use their critical thinking skills and knowledge of community helpers to select the odd picture out.

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

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.

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

Get to know scientist, artist, and activist Mae Jemsion in this reading comprehension worksheet!

Children learn about the history and legacy of Eatonville, Florida, one of the first all-black towns formed after the passage of the 13th Amendment.

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

Explore history with famous female navigator Sacagawea. Sacagawea was a Native American woman who helped Lewis and Clark find their way across the west.