Open Curriculum Resources

Through our History and Geography curriculum, Core Knowledge offers comprehensive materials to teach world and American history and geography. The curriculum follows the Core Knowledge Sequence to help students build knowledge of diverse civilizations, cultures, and concepts.

The EL Education 6th & 9th Grade Social Studies curriculum is a comprehensive, standards-based literacy program that engages teachers and students through compelling, real-world content. Created by teachers for teachers, our highly-acclaimed curriculum draws on EL Education's 25 years of experience in engaging teachers and students in active and meaningful learning. Note: You will need to make a free account to access the resources.

Stanford History Education Group (SHEG) has resources for lessons, curriculum, and assessments for teachers across three categories: History Lessons, History Assessments, and Civic Online Reasoning.

C3 Teachers aims to empower teachers as they wrestle with the big ideas and instructional implications of the C3 Framework. Teachers play a critical role in helping students learn academic content using the C3 Inquiry Arc, which outlines the social studies habits of mind, disciplinary tools and conceptual content that students need to become ready for college and career, and most importantly, civic life. Explore resources for grades K-12.

Facing History & Ourselves uses lessons of history to challenge teachers and their students to stand up to bigotry and hate. These resources include lessons and unit plans covering a range of topics. There are even lessons in multiple languages.

Explore the past and learn about the present with thousands of resources including lesson plans, interactive lessons, videos and documents on government, history, economics, and more.

The Zinn Education Project promotes and supports the teaching of people’s history in classrooms across the country. The website offers free, downloadable lessons and articles organized by theme, time period, and grade level.