3rd Grade

About the Curriculum

The 3rd Grade Michigan Studies curriculum enables teachers to:

• Concentrate on the craft of teaching, including customizing materials for student needs, instead of searching for resources and designing curriculum;
• Embed explicit reading and writing strategies in an inquiry-oriented course
• Shift the teaching of Social Studies from presentational to inquiry mode, so that students perceive history not as a story to be memorized, but as events to be interpreted using evidence;
• Engage and motivate students by exploring genuine, challenging historical questions (that historians, geographers, economists, and political scientists still grapple with);

Curriculum Map

Pacing Calendar