Free Homeschool Resources | History/Civics

July 27, 2020

History/Civics

Allsides for Schools

Description:
All sides for Schools improves our democracy by helping students learn literacy, respectful dialogue, and critical thinking. 

Grades:                                                            

6-12

American Battle Monuments Commission and National History Day

Description:
Lesson plans on World War II

Grades:                                                            

6-12

American Battle Monuments Commission

Description:
Web-based interactive interactive lessons on World War II

Grades:                                                            

4-12

archives.gov

Description:
The Bill of Rights

Grades:                                                            

4-12

Big History Project

Description:
self-guided history tour

Grades:                                                            

Family

bill of rights institute

Description

Grades

Website

Civics 101

4-12

online government and economics course

9-12

Choices Program

Description:
Free teaching with the News lessons and free video library.

Grades:                                                            

6-12

Constitution Center

Description:
The Bill of Rights

Grades:                                                            

4-12

Clio Foundation

Description:
A website and mobile application that revels nearby historical and cultural sites. Clio also offers walking tours and virtual tours of museums and historical sites.

Grades:                                                            

4-12

Close Up Foundation

Description:
Virtual programs and classroom resources to help students discuss and take action on current issues!

Grades:                                                            

6-12

Coursera, University of California Santa Cruz

Description:
The Holocaust: The Destruction of European Jewry

Grades:                                                            

9-12

EdX, Harvard University

Description

Grades

Website

The Ancient Greek Hero

9-12

Women Making HIstory: Ten Objects, Many Stories

6-12

EdX, Princeton University

Description

Grades

Website

Global History of Capitalism

9-12

Global history Lab

9-12

EdX, Tel Aviv University

Description:
Arab-Islamic History: From Tribes to Empires 

Grades:                                                            

8-12

Facing History and Ourselves

Description:
Social Studies and English Language Arts resources to empower teachers and students to think critically about pivotal moments in history and in current events.

Grades:                                                            

6-12

Description

Grades

Website

Free Election Day printable, unit studies and resources.

K-12

Free elections day printables, unit studies, and resources.

3-6

This list of Women's History month printables will help you celebrate women in history with your homeschool.

6-12

Start teaching your kids about voting and give them a little practice with the cookie campaign mock election free printable pack from Free Homeschool Deals.

6-8

Free farming unit studies, printables and resources.

K-6

American flag resources

6-8

Hello January! Calendar of famous people & fun activities

K-5

Future Learn, Monash University

Description:
World War I: A History in 100 Stories

Grades:                                                            

6-12

Future Learn, University of Reading

Description:
Rome: A Virtual Tour of the Ancient City

Grades:                                                            

6-12

Future Learn, University of Strathclyde

Description:
Genealogy: Researching Your Family Tree

Grades:                                                            

Family

Hillsdale

Description:
How to fight critical race theory

Grades:                                                            

9-12

History Channel

Description:
History study guides

Grades:                                                            

K-12

HOMESCHOOLGIVEAWAYS

Description

Grades

Website

ancient Egypt guided drawing unit

4-8

President Lincoln's Thanksgiving Proclamation

3-6

Historic Military leaders notebooking

4-8

American Revolution print/cursvie practice

2-4

presidents trivia research

4-8

World War II Guided Drawing

9-12

Free scripture Copywork about leaders and leadership.

3-6

Modern History Notebooking

9-12

homeschool creations

Description:
Constitution Day printables

Grades:                                                            

Family

homeschool helper online

Description:
U.S. Constitution Lapbook

Grades:                                                            

3-8

HOMESCHOOL DEN

Description:
Genghis Khan and Kubla Khan

Grades:                                                            

1-6

Description:
Black History Month book report

Grades:                                                            

9-12

Hoover Institution

Description

Grades

Website

Ebook on Capitalism

9-12

Trickle Down Theory

9-12

Humility and Doxology

Description:
Curriculum ideas on how to study history, textbook-free!

Grades:                                                            

6-12

Hutchins Center on Fiscal and Monetary Policy, Brookings Institution

Description:
The Fiscal Ship challenges you to put the federal budget on the sustainable course. To win the game, you need to find a combination of policies that match your values and priorities AND set the budget on a sustainable course.

Grades:                                                            

9-12

Icivics

Description

Grades

Website

A remote learning toolkit of enrichment activities an lessons to help parents and teachers facilitate home learning.

6-12

Free educational video games and lessons that teach students to be knowledge, curious and engaged in civic life.

Parents

In All you Do

Description:
Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day mini unit

Grades:                                                            

3-5

Indiana University Center on Representative Government

Description:
A free, fun, interactive game that uses primary source documents to explore the basic tenets of representative government and the challenges they face in contemporary society.

Grades:                                                            

6-12

Kialo, Inc.

Description:
A free argument mapping and debate site, designed to teach critical thinking and encourage rational classroom education.

Grades:                                                            

9-12

kids love to know

Description:
Bill of Rights for Kids

Grades:                                                            

2-6

Kidcitizen

Description:
In Kidcitizen's interactive episodes, children explore civics and government concepts by investigating primary source photographs from the Library of Congress.

Grades:                                                            

6-8

Description:
Free STEM Community Heroes Lego Challenge

Grades:                                                            

K-5

Leadership Institute

Description:
CaTalking Points Guide

Grades:                                                            

8-12

Libertas Institute

Description:
The Tuttle Rebuttals

Grades:                                                            

9-12

Learn in color

Description

Grades

Website

Links to great historical movies for junior high and high school.

6-12

Links to historical movies for middle and high school students.

6-12

Description:
For busy moms out there who are looking for the perfect way to teach their kids all about developing good character, this can help!

Grades:                                                            

4-8

Mom.Wife.Homeschool Life

Description

Grades

Website

Free John F. Kennedy unit study.

3-6

Free Dwight D. Eisenhower mini-unit.

3-6

Free President Trump unit study.

3-6

Free Wright Brothers Mini-Unit.

4-8

MPO Educational Enterprises

Description:
Interactive application that help teach history using quizzes, google maps, animation, videos, timelines, links and more.

Grades:                                                            

4-8

National Archives Education Team

Description:
Curriculum suggestions that focus on details the night before D-Day.

Grades:                                                            

Parents

National Constitution Center

Description:
Free lectures and civil dialogue sessions on the Constitution.

Grades:                                                            

9-12

National History Day Project

Description:
History projects that can be worked on a over a school year and entered into a contest.

Grades:                                                            

6-12

New American History

Description:
Access to digital learning resources and tools developed by Dr. Ed Ayers to enhance the teaching and learning of American history, geography, and current events. 

Grades:                                                            

6-12

Newsicle

Description:
Newsicle is a daily news trivia game that brings current events and trivia games into one experience.

Grades:                                                            

6-12

OER Project

Description:
OER Project courses make sense of our world by connecting the past to the present with an eye toward the future. It is an interdisciplinary foundation of historical thinking practices.

Grades:                                                            

9-12

Peanut Butter Fish Lessons

Description

Grades

Website

Free Amelia Earhart unit studey

6-8

Free Amelia Earhart unit studey

4-12

Free Gold Rush unit study by Joan Jolie includes pages for math, writing, geography, history and more.

6-8

Free Rosa Parks unit study that includes note booking pages, a timeline, civil rights scramble activity and so much more!

6-12

Free unit study based upon the book Who Was Sacagawea?

5-8

Rhyming Multisensory Stories

Description:
A story is sent on a train and is a sensory exploration of Indian culture.

Grades:                                                            

PK-12

SI Edu

Description:
An educators resource guide on D-Day Normandy 1944.

Grades:                                                            

Parents

Sonlight

Description:
Guide to Elections in US

Grades:                                                            

3-8

Spartacus Education

Description

Grades

Website

Classroom D-Day Activity

Parents

Interactive history website with primary resource excerpts

4-12

Steve Irwin

Description:
Free Steve Irwin unit study

Grades:                                                            

6-8

Students of History

Description:
Free online textbooks for World and US History

Grades:                                                            

1-12

Studio Pathways

Description:
Rise Up! Uses creative inquiry to explore Hamilton: An American Musical. Lessons helps students to understand and critically examine Hamilton themes and artistry, and to express their own personal narrative through writing and performance.

Grades:                                                            

9-12

Teachers Pay Teachers

Description:
American Revolution Christmas Traditions

Grades:                                                            

K-3

Teach Wire

Description:
10 of the best World War II teaching resources.

Grades:                                                            

Parents

TEACH WITH MOVIES

Description:
Links to Full-length movies, short subjects, movie clips, film clips, video clips, and short snippets that assist parent in creating a US History lesson plan from movies and film.

Grades:                                                            

9-12

Tina's Dynamic Homeschool Plus

Description

Grades

Website

Vikings Unit Study

1-6

World War II Homeschool quick facts, mini books and links!

6-8

they call me blessed

Description:
Laura Ingalls Wilder unit study

Grades:                                                            

9-12

The Choices Program, Brown University

Description:
Free lessons about current events in the news, free videos.

Grades:                                                            

6-12

The French HIstory Podcast

Description:
Free/ad-free history podcast by world-class scholars with transcriptions.

Grades:                                                            

9-12

the homeschool daily

Description:
Pilgrims and the Mayflower

Grades:                                                            

K-2

The Homeschool Mom

Description:
Videos, activities and printables related to World War II.

Grades:                                                            

6-8

the kids guide

Description:
Trump bundle.

Grades:                                                            

1-4

The Memory Project

Description:
A volunteer speakers bureau that arranges for veterans and Canadian Forces members to share their stories of military service 

Grades:                                                            

1-12

The New York Times

Description:
The mission of the Learning Network is to help people teach and learn with the New York Times. This resource publishes about 1,000 teaching resources each school year, all based on using Times content-articles, essays, images, videos, graphics and podcasts-as teaching tools across subject areas.

Grades:                                                            

6-12

The River Houses

Description:
A history teaching lesson about D-Day 1944

Grades:                                                            

Parents

the wise nest

Description:
Preamble to the Constitution

Grades:                                                            

2-6

Tina's Dynamic Homeschool Plus

Description:
Printable History Board Games

Grades:                                                            

K-12

UCLA

Description:
World History for us all.

Grades:                                                            

9-12

Unsilence

Description:
Through storytelling, the arts, and serious games, we unsilence hidden injustices and marginalized voices. Unsilence sparks dialogue, supports critical thinking, and builds empathy to inspire healing and social change.

Grades:                                                            

6-12

U.S. Constitution

Description:
The U. S. Constitution online

Grades:                                                            

4-12

White House Historical Association

Description:
Many free online education education resources including themed resource packets, short education videos, and impressive Digital Library collection.

Grades:                                                            

6-12

Whole Child Homeschool

Description:
Study early American History with movies: Colonial Times to Civil War. 

Grades:                                                            

9-12

World History Encyclopedia

Description:
Digital encyclopedia

Grades:                                                            

K-12

yearround homeschooling

Description:
Veterans Day unit study

Grades:                                                            

4-8

12 Story Library

Description:
Up-to-date news and links, web resources, video and image galleries and live Twitter feeds; free eBooks available with purchase of any print book.

Grades:                                                            

6-12

123homeschool4me

Description

Grades

Website

1950s History free printable for kids

3-5

Voting for kids Reader

1-6

1950s music for kids

PK-6

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