Say goodbye to dry textbooks and overwhelming lesson planning! The Smart and Simple Social Studies Curriculum makes teaching history, geography, government, and economics easy and exciting. With ready-to-use lessons, engaging activities, and built-in differentiation, you’ll have everything you need to bring social studies to life—without the prep stress!
Why Teachers Love the Smart and Simple Social Studies curriculum
Ready-to-Teach Lessons
No more spending hours searching for engaging materials! Each lesson is structured with clear objectives, engaging mini-lessons, student-friendly guided notes, and interactive activities that fit seamlessly into your schedule.
Hands-On and Interactive
From guided notes to primary source analysis and project-based learning, students actively engage with social studies concepts. With this social studies curriculum, they’ll explore, discuss, and think critically—while having fun!
Flexible and Standards-Aligned
Designed for 3rd-5th grade, this social studies curriculum aligns primarily to Texas TEKS standards while offering the flexibility to adapt to your students’ needs in a variety of other states. Whether you teach in short blocks or extended lessons, these resources work for you.
What Teachers Are Saying
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HI, I’M KIRSTEN!
I’m a former upper elementary teacher who has taught in multiple districts in Texas. I’ve taken my 11+ years of experience along with my M.Ed in Elementary Education and applied my expertise to each resource I create. I’ve totally been there –
- Searching all over the internet to find the right social studies resources that align with my state’s standards and weren’t too easy or boring for my students
- Scrambling at the last minute to come up with a lesson or activity that aligns with a current event or holiday
- Trying to figure out a schedule that fits social studies with all the 150 million things I had to cover before state testing
This social studies curriculum is here to change that. No more fighting to fit social studies into your schedule or wasting precious time looking for activities (only to end up with bored students).