3rd Grade Social Studies Unit 6

Big Idea:

How communities meet their needs both past and present.

Student Expectations:

Priority TEKS

3.1(B) [Supporting] identify individuals, including Pierre-Charles L’Enfant, Benjamin Banneker, and Benjamin Franklin, who have helped to shape communities

3.1(C) [Supporting] describe how individuals, including Daniel Boone, Christopher Columbus, the Founding Fathers, and Juan de Onate, have contributed to the expansion of existing communities or to the creation of new communities

3.2(A) [Readiness] Identify reasons people have formed communities, including a need for security, religious freedom, law, and material well-being.

3.2(B) [Readiness] Identify ways in which people in the local community and other communities meet their needs for government, education, communication, transportation, and recreation.

Focus TEKS

3.1(A) [Readiness] Describe how individuals, events, and ideas have changed communities, past and present.

3.2(C) [Supporting] Compare ways in which various other communities meet their needs

3.12(A) [Readiness] give examples of community changes that result from individual or group decisions;

3.12(B) [Supporting] identify examples of actions individuals and groups can take to improve the community

Ongoing TEKS

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

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 explain what a community must have to be successful. (ie. security/safety, food, shelter, education, recreation, etc.)
• I will write about why people form communities and how they meet their needs. (ie. building of new stores, fire departments, schools...)

Essential Questions:

• Why do people create communities?
• How do various communities meet people’s needs?
• How does your community meet your needs?

Extra Information:

Adopted Textbook: American Legacy, Studies Weekly

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