5th Grade Social Studies Video Links - YEARLONG Resource!

This is a PDF document of a list of video links for teachers to use for the WHOLE YEAR while teaching Social Studies! Every video you could ever need to cover the standards thoroughly with your students is here.

It was designed to fit the Fifth Grade Georgia Standards of Excellence for S.S. but could be used in any district. U.S. History from 1900-present is covered, and so are major economic and government/civic concepts. Check out the full list of standards here: Social-Studies-5th-Grade-Georgia-Standards.pdf (gadoe.org).

This resource includes almost 400 (yes, four HUNDRED) videos that you can use to show your students. It will completely eliminate the need for your to search for hours for each unit.

The videos are organized in chronological order, then by standard, which are also written directly on the document for you to easily navigate.

The vast majority of the videos included are from free resources (mostly YouTube). However there are a few from sites like BrainPop, Flocabulary, or Discovery Education that may require a paid subscription with login info. Sommetimes your district may already have these memberships, and other times you may be able to find a login by Googling. However, for every single subject/person/standard there will ALWAYS be AT LEAST one free video resource. Most have 3-5 or even more.

I have also included some "bonus" content in some of the sections -- links to interactive websites, games, and even reviews that I created.

Perfect for new teachers, teachers looking to incorporate more visual elements to their lessons, or even for you to post to your class website/send to parents. These would be a great way to review for end of year testing as well.

Important Events/Concepts Included:

Turn of the 20th Century

Transcontinental Railroad

Westward Expansion/Cattle Trails

Spanish-American War

Panama Canal

Immigration

Gold Rush

World War I

Lusitania

Treaty of Versailles

Jazz Age

Harlem Renaissance

Great Depression

Stock Market Crash

Dust Bowl

New Deal (CCC - Civilian Conservation Corps & TVA - Tennessee Valley Authority)

World War II

Imperialism

Pearl Harbor

D-Day

Holocaust

Hiroshima & Nagasaki

United Nations

Cold War

Iron Curtain

Communism

Berlin Wall

Berlin Airlift

NATO

Korean War

Cuban Missile Crisis

Vietnam War

Jim Crow

Civil Rights

Brown vs. Board of Education

Montgomery Bus Boycott

March on Washington

Civil Rights Act

Voting Rights Act

Assassinations

Television

Space Exploration

Soviet Union Collapse

Personal Computers

Internet

Terrorism

September 11th, 2001 (9/11)

Historical Figures Included:

Alexander Graham Bell

Wright Brothers

George Washington Carver

Thomas Edison

William McKinley

Theodore Roosevelt

Louis Armstrong

Langston Hughes

Babe Ruth

Henry Ford

Charles Lindbergh

Herbert Hoover

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Duke Ellington

Margaret Mitchell

Jesse Owens

Joseph Stalin

Winston Churchill

Hirohito

Benito Mussolini

Adolf Hitler

Rosie the Riveter

Tuskegee Airmen

Harry Truman

Eleanor Roosevelt

Joseph McCarthy

Nikita Khrushchev

Thurgood Marshall

Lyndon B. Johnson

Rosa Parks

Martin Luther King, Jr. 

Cesar Chavez

John F. Kennedy

Robert F. Kennedy

Ronald Reagan

Government/Civic Concepts Covered:

Constitution

Citizen Responsibilities

Due Process

Amendments

Democracy

Voting Rights - 15th, 19th, 23rd, 24th & 26th Amendments

Economic Concepts Covered:

Incentives

Trade

Voluntary Exchange

Specialization (Assembly Line)

Rationing

Scarcity & Surplus

Opportunity Costs

Rationing

Human Capital & Labor

Income

Goods & Services

Banks - Checking Account, Savings Account & Loans

Taxes

Federal Reserve

Consumers & Producers

Competition & Prices

Supply & Demand

Income & Expenses

Entrepreneurs

Personal Finance

Budgets

Needs & Wants

Saving & Investing

*All links are functioning as of 2/12/2023. I cannot guarantee that they will all continue to work indefinitely, but the majority should. If you are having issues with 10% (40) or more of the links not working, please feel free to reach out so that I can correct the issue. I tried to pull from a variety of sources to ensure that there would always be something to use.