Third Grade Social Science

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First Quarter

CONTENT (General)

 

CONTENT (Specific)

 

ASSESSMENTS

ILLINOIS LEARNING STANDARDS

 Communities and mapping skills

 Community, laws, citizens, map keys, compass rose, map titles

 Chapter Test

 14C

17A

 Kinds of Communities

Population, urban, suburban, rural, geography, citizenship, culture

Mapping skills

Chapter test

17A

 Inventor Unit

What is an inventor and an invention?

A-Z alphabet of Inventions

 Brainstorm page

Of inventions

 

How to research

Explained how to use encyclopedias, internet and resource books to find information

Discussion

Hands on researching

5.A.1b

Inventor/Invention

-picked and inventor to research and filled out research guide

-wrote paragraph and found picture

-research guide

5B1a       5A1b

3A2

5C1a

Inventor presentations

-presented inventor paragraph to class

Written paragraph on inventor

4B2a

4B2b

 

Second Quarter

CONTENT (General)

 

CONTENT (Specific)

 

ASSESSMENTS

ILLINOIS LEARNING STANDARDS

 

 

 

Christmas Around

The World

Italian and Mexican Customs

-mapping

-flag

-facts

-Read The Legend of the Poinsettia

-Art –poinsettias

-Read La Befana

-Art- Noodle Angel Ornament

-journal writing

-Research

      -picked groups to research a different country

      -internet, resource books, interviews

      -constructed power point presentations of research

 -journal entries

-maps

-research guides

-power point presentation

 (final project)

 5A2a

5A2b

5C2a

5C2b

3C2a

18A2

17A2b

 

Third Quarter

CONTENT (General)

 

CONTENT (Specific)

 

ASSESSMENTS

ILLINOIS LEARNING STANDARDS

 Jr. Achievement

 

 

 

Our Land and Resources

-City Planning

-economics

 

 

-Lesson 1-Earth’s Land and Water

    -landforms

    -climate

    -bodies of water

    -erosion

-Lesson 2- Our Country’s Geography

    -coast

    -desert

    -regions

    -recycling

    -protecting natural resources

 -Lesson 3- Communities and Resources

     -using a map grid

     -conserving natural resources

     -Mexico City

-          Designing activity

-          Restaurant project

 

 

 

-          mapping activities

-          study guides

-          chapter tests

-          Weekly Readers

14C, 14D, 15A, 15B, 15D

 

 

 

17A, 17B, 17C, 17D, 18A, 18B, 18C

 

Fourth Quarter

CONTENT (General)

 

CONTENT (Specific)

 

ASSESSMENTS

ILLINOIS LEARNING STANDARDS

Chapter 7- Being an Active Citizen 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Little House in the Big Woods-Unit

Lesson 1- Citizens Make a Difference

     -almanac

     -Write paragraph on being a good citizen

       activity #3

     -Read play “Saving Soccer” pages 206-209

     -resolving conflicts pages 210-214

     -rights and responsibilities pages 212-215

 

 

-Read and discuss each chapter

-Chapter glossaries and vocabulary

-activities-dioramas, stitching samplers, making butter, sampling maple sugar cakes, making pancake men and lemonade, playing “old-fashioned” outdoor games, reenacting a day in the late 1800s.

   

 -paragraph writing

-study guides

-chapter test

-Weekly Readers

 

 

 

 

 

-Little House Unit folder

-Chapter test- Christmas

-samplers

-dioramas

 14A, 14B, 14C,

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1A, 1B, 1C, 2A, 2B, 2C, 3A, 3B, 3C, 16A, 16C, 17D, 18A,

 

 

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