Social Studies Curriculum

3rd Grade

Course Purpose:

 Students will construct questions and develop answers in order to explore communities near and far.

Outcomes and Components:

SS.3.1 Students will evaluate geographical concepts in order to describe people's relationships to places near and far.

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Standard(s)
  SS.3.1.1 Locate major landforms and bodies of water on print and digital maps, globes, and other simple geographic models of both familiar and unfamiliar places. SS.3.G.1
  SS.3.1.2 Compare how people modify and adapt to the environment through cultural influence in our community to other places or not. SS.3.G.2
  SS.3.1.3 Compare goods and services that are produced in our community and those that are produced in other communities. (Also in 2nd grade) SS.3.EC.1
  SS.3.1.4 Demonstrate how consumption of products connects people to distant places.  
  SS.3.1.5 Describe the movement of goods, people, jobs, and/or information and the effect of the cultural and environmental characteristic on movement of goods. SS.3.G.3

Academic Vocabulary: Compare, evaluate, adapt

Content Vocabulary:  Landforms, bodies of water, continents, mountains, plateau, hills, plains, canyon, valley, mesa, peninsula, ocean, sea, river, gulf, waterfall, lake, goods, services, consumption, adaptations, producer, consumer