Social Studies
- American FactFinder - Learn about the U.S. Census and get facts about your state.
- Census in Schools - For Teachers - Offers easy-to-use, standards-based lesson plans and teaching kits tailored for all grade levels; access free products including maps, lesson plans and historical data.
- Corporation for National and Community Service - A federal agency that engages more than five million Americans in service through Senior Corps, AmeriCorps, and Learn and Serve America, and leads the president's national call to service initiative, United We Serve.
- Flags of the World - The World Factbook - Shows each countries flags; you can also click on the country name for more facts.
- Geography and Map Reading Room - The Geography and Map Division (G&M) has the largest map collection in the world, including 5.5 million maps, 80,000 atlases, over 500 globes and more.
- How Teachers and Parents Can Help Young Children Become (and Stay) Bilingual - Parents can work with teachers to help their child be bilingual.
- Maps - Library of Congress - Collections of historical maps from the American Revolution through War II.
- MapStats for Kids - You can learn concepts about maps and statistics through games, graphs and more.
- My Wonderful World - for Educators - Show your students that geography is everywhere; get an educators action kit to help with your lesson.
- NewsHour Extra - Teacher's Resources - Provides unique current event resources including news stories, pictures, maps, video and lesson plans.
- Serve.gov - United We Serve - Serve.gov is your online resource for not only finding volunteer opportunities in your community, but also creating your own.
- Smithsonian Education - For Teachers - Use this search to find Smithsonian educational resources that are aligned to national, common core, or state standards.
- Social Studies (Grades 6-8) - PBS Teachers - Teachers can search the PBS resources by topic and media type.
- Third Culture Kids - How you can help a child who was born in the U.S., but lived in another country.
- Time For Kids - Teachers - Time For Kids is a weekly classroom news magazine packed with stories about world and national events, scientific discoveries, sports and much more.
- Youth Engaged in Service - Whether you are starting a new program or want to add to what you already do, this toolkit can help you introduce youth from all walks of life to the personal growth and empowerment from volunteering.