Grade Level & Subject:

      Grade Three Social Studies

Curriculum Map

Year

2003-04 PILOT

Calendar

February

March

 

 

Third Nine Weeks – February -March

 

Possible Resources

 

 

Our Communities Grade 3, Macmillan/McGraw-Hill (Anchor Text)

 

Nine Weeks Focus

 

Our Communities Grade 3 (Anchor Text)

Chapters 6,7, and 8 (pages 150-246)

“Living and Working,”  “Working in Communities,”  “How Government Works”

 

 

Skills/Standards (To teach andmeasure)

History

1. Define and measure time by years, decades and centuries.

2. Place local historical events in sequential order on a time line.

 

People in Societies

 

Geography

1. Use political maps, physical maps and aerial photographs to ask and answer questions about the local community.

2. Use a compass rose and cardinal directions to describe the relative location of places.

3. Read and interpret maps by using the map title, map key, direction indicator and symbols to answer questions about the local community.

4. Use a number/letter grid system to locate physical and human features on a map.

8. Identify systems of transportation used to move people and products and systems of communication used to move ideas from place to place.

 

Economics

1. Define opportunity cost and give an example of the opportunity cost of a personal decision.

2. Identify people who purchase goods and services as consumers and people who make goods or provide services as producers.

3. Categorize economic activities as examples of production or consumption.

4. Explain the advantages and disadvantages of specialization and the division of labor to produce items.

5. Identify different forms of money used over time, and recognize that money facilitates the purchase of goods, services and resources and enables savings.

6. Explain how the local community is an example of a market where buyers and sellers exchange goods and services.

7. Identify examples of economic competition in the local community.

 

 Government

1. Explain the major functions of local government including:

    a. Promoting order and security;

    b. Making laws;

    c. Settling disputes;

    d. Providing public services;

    e. Protecting the rights of individuals.

2. Explain the structure of local governments and identify local leaders (e.g., township trustees, county commissioners, city council members or mayor).

3. Identify the location of local government buildings and explain the functions of government that are carried out there.

4. Identify goods and services provided by local government, why people need them and the source of funding (taxation).

 

(*The skills listed below are not addressed specifically in the textbook, but could be addressed easily under the Government standard.)

5. Define power and authority.

6. Explain why the use of power without legitimate authority is unjust (e.g., bullying, stealing).

 

 

Citizenship Rights and Responsibilities

 

 
Social Studies Skills and Methods (embedded in all the social studies standards)

1. Obtain information about local issues from a variety of sources including:

    a. Maps;

    b. Photos;

    c. Oral histories;

    d. Newspapers;

    e. Letters;

    f. Artifacts;

    g. Documents.

2. Locate information using various parts of a source including:

    a. The table of contents;

    b. Title page;

    c. Illustrations;

    d. Keyword searches.

3. Identify possible cause and effect relationships.

4. Read and interpret pictographs, bar graphs and charts.

5. Communicate information using pictographs and bar graphs.

6. Use a problem-solving/decision-making process which includes:

    a. Identifying a problem;

    b. Gathering information;

    c. Listing and considering options;

    d. Considering advantages and disadvantages of options;

    e. Choosing and implementing a solution.

 

 

Assessment

Choices