Communities in the World
Communities in the World Lessons & Projects
Virtual Tour of Tunisia
Students can visit the locations themselves on Chromebooks with Google Maps (all locations included as Maps links)
Google Tour of Tunisia
Tour of TunisiaTraditions and customs of groups and communities other than their own. 3.1.1.1, 3.1.2.4, & 3.1.2.5
Your class will host a cultural celebration in which students create a traditional meal and share with their classmates.
Culture Day Quality of Life, 3.1.2.1
What affects your quality of life?
Quality of LifeQuality of Life, 3.1.2.1
In this activity, the teacher can use the book, Fly Away Home, by Eve Bunting, as a forum to tackle this idea about what quality of life means.
Travelling to India: 3.1.2.3, 3.1.2.4, 3.1.2.5, 3.1.2.10, 3.1.3.1, 3.1.4.3 ,
Take your students on a trip to India. First pack a suitcase with what you need for the climate. Over 7 days, introduce different topics and have them imagine and journal about what they would experience in different parts of the country.
Social Studies: Travelling to India Student Resource 1/3Social Studies: Travelling to India 2/3Etudes Sociales: Voyager en Inde - 2/33.1.3 - examine the geographic characteristics that shape communities in other parts of the world
Visit Peru Green ScreenMyMaps Project - Grade 3 MyMaps 3.1.3.1, 3.S.1
This project will have students create MyMaps, defining the continents as one layer, and then defining our different countries around the world; India, Tunisia, Ukraine and Peru.
Where, on a globe and/or map, are the communities in relation to Canada? 3.1.3.1
Students will trace and label the continents then add place marks for the countries being studied.
Send Me a Postcard!Send me a Postcard: Geographic characteristics that shape communities: 3.1.3.4
How would you travel to the country you're visiting? What would you see and do? Postcard templates in Google Drawings:
Goods and Services Infographic: 3.1.4.1
Students will create an infographic about the goods and service of each of the countries with icons provided in the template. .
Goods and Services InfographicBiens et Services InfographiqueStudent Resource: Social : I'm Taking My Camera To:Photo Journal 3.1.3.2, 3.1.3.3, 3.1.3.4
I'm Taking My Camera To: Have the students choose a country to visit and use Google Slides to create a presentation that reflects what they would see.
Cinderella Around the WorldA language arts project based on the cultures of the countries studied in the grade 3 Social Studies Curriculum) Script fill-in-the-blank
Finding Arrgggghhh Directions
Map Example
3.S.3 - develop skills of geographic thinking: create and use a simple map to locate communities studied in the world, use cardinal and intermediate directions to locate places on maps and globes, apply the concept of relative location to determine locations of people and places, apply the terms hemisphere, poles, equator.
Finding Arrggghhh Directions: Students will create a pirate island with this template. They will add a compass rose, trees, hills, lakes, rivers, houses, and a path to the treasure. Student will then explain in writing how to get to the treasure from the ship using cardinal directions and landmarks.
Communities in the World Templates
Links
Culturegrams Explore the interesting facts and features of Ukraine, Peru, India and Tunisia in a kid friendly way. This LearnAlberta.ca resource requires a login. Click on Culturegrams first and come back here to click on your country.
World Book Kids Search World Book Kids for interesting facts about Ukraine, Peru, India and Tunisia.
Peru
Peru photo gallery and information
Descendants of the Incas-explore will give you a flavor of the rich culture of Inca people living today near the city of Cusco, once the capital of the Inca empire. A Peruvian Family The Community of Chinchero Inca Ruins, Chinchero
India
Journey Into India (teacher created student worksheet to accompany Journey To India CD) Word File
India (Fact Monster) - Learn more about the history and geography of India by reading this page
Ukraine
Tunisia
Tarek the Camel Racer: Description: This video features Tarek, a boy who lives in Tunisia. He is shown training for his first professional camel race at the beginning of school holidays. Camels come in different breeds and are stubborn and bad-tempered. Tarek plays hide-and-seek in cave dwellings, picks dates with friends, takes a hot air balloon ride and hunts desert hares before going on to win his race. (Video Duration:14 minutes, 09 seconds)