2025’s Best Social Studies Resources – So Far

I’m continuing with my mid-year “Best” list posts…

You can see all previous Social Studies lists here.

Here picks for this year – so far:

A Short List Of Resources For Teaching About Tariffs

A Collection Of My Posts About Resisting The Trump Administration Agenda

The Best Resources For Learning & Teaching About The 2026 Winter Olympics

The Best Resources For Teaching & Learning About The 14th Amendment

Time Portal challenges you to guess both the historical event and its geographical location. Its hints are pretty slick AI-generated videos.  Once you guess the event and the location, each video shares information about the event, though it would be better if those text clues were shown ahead of time. It seems to me this could be a fun “Do Now” activity in a History class. You can read more about the game at Google Maps Mania. I’m adding this info to The Best Online Geography Games.

Google has been flailing away trying to find useful ways to use Artificial Intelligence and, apart from perhaps NotebookLM, they’ve been failing miserably (Google Continues To Use AI To Let Us Create Cute Little Things Instead Of Something Useful). Their latest attempt is called Career Dreamer, which is an interactive tool designed to help you figure out a future…career. It does seem to be well-designed, and I think it’s accessible to students (including ELLs). However, I’m not sure it’s that huge of an upgrade from similar tools, which you can find at The Best Websites For Students Exploring Jobs and Careers.  It’s certainly not worth the damage to the environment AI is doing. Nevertheless, it’s here, and it’s free, so I might trying using it in class sometime.

I’m adding this video to The Best Resources For Learning About Our World’s Population Of 7 Billion:

This could be a good source of discussion in Social Studies classes.

You can see a bigger version at Visual Capitalist.