Third Grade Social Studies Essential Learning Goals
Third Grade Social Studies Essential Learning Goals Geography Skills: 1. Read and construct maps. 2. Identify and locate the Mississippi and Missouri Rivers. 3. Locate and identify the states bordering Missouri on a map. 4. Describe and use absolute location using a grid system. 5. Identify examples of different regions (rural, urban, recreational area). 6. Construct maps and other graphic representations of both familiar and unfamiliar places. 7. Use maps, satellite images, photographs, and other representations to explain relationships between the locations of places and regions and their environmental characteristics. Culture Skills: 1. Human beings create, learn, share, and adapt to culture. 2. Cultures are dynamic and change over time. 3. Explain why people living in different places (cities, suburbs, towns, villages) and specializing in different way of making a living have a need to interact with each other. 4. Identify elements of culture as well as similarities and differences among cultural groups across time and place. 5. Develop an understanding of spatial perspectives, and examine changes in the relationship between peoples, places and environments. 6. Personal identity is shaped by an individual’s culture, by groups, by institutional influences, and by lived experiences shared with people inside and outside the individual’s own culture throughout her or his development. 7. Study individual development and identity to describe factors important to the development of personal identity. 8. Develop personal identities in the context of families, peers, schools, and communities. 9. Explain how culture influences the way people modify and adapt to their environments. 10. Explain how the cultural and environmental characteristics of places change over time. 11. Describe how environmental and cultural characteristics influence population distribution in specific places or regions. 12. Explain how cultural and environmental characteristics affect the distribution and movement of people, goods, and ideas. 13. Explain how human settlements and movements relate to the location and use of various natural resources. 14. Analyze the effects of catastrophic environmental and technological events on human settlements and migration. Economics Skills: 1. Identify and explain public goods and services. 2. Distinguish among natural, capital, and human resources. 3. Recognize that people have wants that often exceed the limited resources available to them. 4. Compare the benefits and costs of individual choices. 5. Identify positive and negative incentives that influence the decisions people make. 6. Identify wants and needs of people and natural consequences. 7. Explain why individuals and businesses specialize and trade. 8. Explain the role of money in making exchange easier.
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Third Grade Social Studies Essential Learning Goals Government Skills: 1. Discuss and apply responsibilities of citizens including respect for the rights of others and treating others fairly. (justice) 2. Analyze peaceful resolution of disputes by courts or other legitimate authorities, such as parents, teachers, principals, etc. 3. Describe how authoritative decisions are made, enforced, and interpreted within the federal government. 4. Identify and explain the functions of the three branches of government in the federal government. 5. Distinguish the responsibilities and powers of government officials at various levels and branches of government and in different times and places. 6. Explain how a democracy relies on people’s responsible participation, and draw implications for how individuals should participate. 7. Examine the origins and purposes of rules, laws, and key U.S. constitutional provisions. 8. Explain how groups of people make rules to create responsibilities and protect freedoms. 9. Explain the origins, functions, and structure of different systems of government, including those created by the U.S. and state constitutions. 10. Describe ways in which people benefit from and are challenged by working together, including through government, workplaces, voluntary organizations, and families.
History Skills: 1. Recognize that studying the past makes it possible for us to understand the human story across time. 2. Analyze the causes and consequences of events and developments and place these in the context of the institutions, values and beliefs of the periods in which they took place. 3. Explain the past and apply the research methods associated with historical inquiry. 4. Describe the contributions of African Americans. 5. Create and use a chronological sequence of events. 6. Compare life in specific historical time periods to life today. 7. Generate questions about individuals and groups who have shaped significant historical changes and continuities. 8. Summarize how different kinds of historical sources are used to explain events in the past. 9. Compare information provided by different historical sources about the past. 10. Identify the cause and effect of historical events. 11. Use evidence to develop a claim about the past. 12. Summarize the central claim in a secondary work of history. 13. Describe Westward Expansion including Lewis and Clark’s contributions. 14. Recognize the significance of the Louisiana Purchase. 15. Describe the expedition of Lewis and Clark. 16. Describe life on the Oregon and Santa Fe Trails. 17. Recognize the significance of the Pony Express.
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Third Grade Social Studies Essential Learning Goals Global Connections Skills: 1. Understand the relationships between human populations and the physical world. 2. Apply knowledge, skills, and understanding to address cultural, social, economic and civic issues. 3. Recognize that questions related to identity and development, which are important in psychology, sociology, and anthropology, are central to the understanding of who we are. Tools of Social Inquiry Skills: 1. Identify, select, and use visual, graphic and auditory aids. 2. Identify, use, and create primary and secondary sources. 3. Identify and use library and media resources. 4. Identify and use artifacts. 5. Learn how science and technologies influence beliefs, knowledge, and their daily lives. 6. Gather relevant information from multiple sources while using the origin, structure, and context to guide the selection. 7. Use distinctions among fact and opinion. 8. Use evidence to develop claims in response to compelling questions.
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Third Grade Social Studies Essential Learning Goals Government Skills: 1. Discuss and apply responsibilities of citizens including respect for the rights of others and treating others fairly. (justice) 2. Analyze peaceful resolution of disputes by courts or other legitimate authorities, such as parents, teachers, principals, etc. 3. Describe how authoritative decisions are made, enforced, and interpreted within the federal government. 4. Identify and explain the functions of the three branches of government in the federal government. 5. Distinguish the responsibilities and powers of government officials at various levels and branches of government and in different times and places. 6. Explain how a democracy relies on people’s responsible participation, and draw implications for how individuals should participate. 7. Examine the origins and purposes of rules, laws, and key U.S. constitutional provisions. 8. Explain how groups of people make rules to create responsibilities and protect freedoms. 9. Explain the origins, functions, and structure of different systems of government, including those created by the U.S. and state constitutions. 10. Describe ways in which people benefit from and are challenged by working together, including through government, workplaces, voluntary organizations, and families.
History Skills: 1. Recognize that studying the past makes it possible for us to understand the human story across time. 2. Analyze the causes and consequences of events and developments and place these in the context of the institutions, values and beliefs of the periods in which they took place. 3. Explain the past and apply the research methods associated with historical inquiry. 4. Describe the contributions of African Americans. 5. Create and use a chronological sequence of events. 6. Compare life in specific historical time periods to life today. 7. Generate questions about individuals and groups who have shaped significant historical changes and continuities. 8. Summarize how different kinds of historical sources are used to explain events in the past. 9. Compare information provided by different historical sources about the past. 10. Identify the cause and effect of historical events. 11. Use evidence to develop a claim about the past. 12. Summarize the central claim in a secondary work of history. 13. Describe Westward Expansion including Lewis and Clark’s contributions. 14. Recognize the significance of the Louisiana Purchase. 15. Describe the expedition of Lewis and Clark. 16. Describe life on the Oregon and Santa Fe Trails. 17. Recognize the significance of the Pony Express.
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Third Grade Social Studies Essential Learning Goals Global Connections Skills: 1. Understand the relationships between human populations and the physical world. 2. Apply knowledge, skills, and understanding to address cultural, social, economic and civic issues. 3. Recognize that questions related to identity and development, which are important in psychology, sociology, and anthropology, are central to the understanding of who we are. Tools of Social Inquiry Skills: 1. Identify, select, and use visual, graphic and auditory aids. 2. Identify, use, and create primary and secondary sources. 3. Identify and use library and media resources. 4. Identify and use artifacts. 5. Learn how science and technologies influence beliefs, knowledge, and their daily lives. 6. Gather relevant information from multiple sources while using the origin, structure, and context to guide the selection. 7. Use distinctions among fact and opinion. 8. Use evidence to develop claims in response to compelling questions.
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