Social Studies Curriculum
3rd Grade
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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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Pacing Instruct/ Assess |
Component Code |
Component |
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 | |
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Academic Vocabulary: Compare, evaluate, adapt |
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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 |