Social Studies Education for Children

• Justice Learning - includes lesson plans for legal and civil justice issues and serves as resource for text, audio, and multimedia for teachers.
• History and Social Science: Kindergarten - a site that evaluates and catalogs Internet resources that support Virginia Standards of Learning education.
• Early Childhood - Social Studies - an archive of activities that gives children the help they need to learn about the world as well as themselves.
• USGS: What Do Maps Show? - a place where children can learn about things on a map. For example, a map symbol represents a feature or object on the ground and a legend explains what objects or features the symbols represent.
• Education Center Activity: All of Me - a guide for enhancing children’s knowledge about their family and community roles.
• Education Place Activity: Tools of the Trade - a place where children can test what they know about various professions and the tools relating to them.
• Free Lessons: Primary-level - children can learn their worldwide and country geography with a series of 6 lessons.
• Kindergartners on the Map -a tool for teaching kindergarteners the basic principles of a map.