3rd Grade Social Studies Unit 5

Big Idea:

Use timelines to organize and interpret historical information.

Student Expectations:

Priority TEKS

3.3(B) Create and interpret timelines.

3.3(C) Apply the terms year, decade, and century to describe historical times.

Focus TEKS

3.3(A) [Supporting] Use vocabulary related to chronology, including past, present, and future times.

3.16(B) [Readiness]identify the impact of scientific breakthroughs and new technology in computers, pasteurization, and medical vaccines on various communities

3.17(E) [Ways to Show] Interpret and create visuals, including graphs, charts, tables, timelines, illustrations, and maps.

Ongoing TEKS

3.17(A) [Tools to Know] Research information, including historical and current events, and geographic data, about the community and world, using a variety of valid print, oral, visual, and internet resources

3.17(D) [Tools to Know] Use various parts of a source, including the table of contents, glossary, and index as well as keyword Internet searches, to locate information

3.17(E) [Ways to Show] Interpret and create visuals, including graphs, charts, tables, timelines, illustrations, and maps

3.17(F) [Tools to Know] Use appropriate mathematical skills to interpret social studies information such as maps and graphs

3.18(A) [Ways to Show] Express ideas orally based on knowledge and experiences

3.18(B) [Ways to Show] Use technology to create written and visual material such as stories, poems, pictures, maps, and graphic organizers to express ideas

3.18(C) [Tools to Know] Use standard grammar, spelling, sentence structure, and punctuation

3.19(A) [Tools to Know] Use a problem-solving process to identify a problem, gather information, list and consider options, consider advantages and disadvantages, choose and implement a solution, and evaluate the effectiveness of the solution

3.19(B) [Tools to Know] Use a decision-making process to identify a situation that requires a decision, gather information, identify options, predict consequences, and take action to implement a decision

Student Learning Targets:

• I will create and interpret timelines.
• I will apply the terms year, decade, and century to describe historical times. (ie. 1776 is in the 18th century)
• I will explain how things have changed over the past decade and predict how things will change in the next century.
• I will use the terms year, decade, and century in complete sentences.

Essential Questions:

• How can sequencing help you analyze a timeline of historical events?
• What is the importance of a timeline?

Extra Information:

Adopted Textbook: American Legacy, Studies Weekly

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