Social Studies

Great Resources for your classes

Maps and Mapping Activities (National Geographic)

Maps are fantastic visual tools that can help us communicate spatial concepts and patterns, tell stories, and analyze data.

K-5

California Framework

Background for K-5 Instructional Practice

K — Learning and Working Now and Long Ago

1st — A Child’s Place in Time and Space

2nd — People Who Make a Difference

3rd — Continuity and Change

4th — California: A Changing State

5th — United States History and Geography: Making a New Nation

Open Source Curriculum (UCLA)

K-5 — United States History

6-8

California Framework

Background 6-8 Instructional Practice
6th — World History and Geography: Ancient Civilizations
7th — World History and Geography: Medieval & Early Modern Times
8th— United States History and Geography: Growth and Conflict

Open-Source Curriculum

(UC Davis)

7th — Sites of Encounter: Medieval World
8th — The Civil War

(UCLA)

6-8th — Ancient Civilizations, Medieval World & U.S. History

A Magazine by the California History & Social Studies Project

Interviews with teachers and scholars, sample lesson plans, essays on history education, and a calendar of upcoming events.

If you have teaching resources or tools (not copyrighted materials) that you would like to share, please let us know by emailing Melissa Wantz: mwantz@rioschools.org