Social Studies (Illinois State Standards):
- SS.CV.1.3. Describe ways in which interactions among families, workplaces, voluntary organizations, and government benefit communities.
- SS.CV.4.3. Describe how people have tried to improve their communities over time.
- SS.EC. 2.3. Generate examples of the goods and services that governments provide.
Teaching Tolerance Framework:
- DI.3-5.8. I want to know more about other people’s lives and experiences, and I know how to ask questions respectfully and listen carefully and non-judgmentally.
- ID.3-5.5. I know my family and I do things the same as and different from other people and groups, and I know how to use what I learn from home, school and other places that matter to me.
- JU.3-5.14. I know that life is easier for some people and harder for others based on who they are and where they were born.
- AC.3-5.20. I will work with my friends and family to make our school and community fair for everyone, and we will work hard and cooperate in order to achieve our goals.
Math (Common Core):
- CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.3.MD.D.8 Solve real world and mathematical problems involving perimeters of polygons, including finding the perimeter given the side lengths, finding an unknown side length, and exhibiting rectangles with the same perimeter and different areas or with the same area and different perimeters.
- CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.3.MD.C.7.A Find the area of a rectangle with whole-number side lengths by tiling it, and show that the area is the same as would be found by multiplying the side lengths.
- CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.3.MD.C.7.B Multiply side lengths to find areas of rectangles with whole-number side lengths in the context of solving real world and mathematical problems, and represent whole-number products as rectangular areas in mathematical reasoning.
- CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.3.MD.C.7.C Use tiling to show in a concrete case that the area of a rectangle with whole-number side lengths a and b + c is the sum of a × b and a × c. Use area models to represent the distributive property in mathematical reasoning.
- CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.3.MD.C.7.D Recognize area as additive. Find areas of rectilinear figures by decomposing them into non-overlapping rectangles and adding the areas of the non-overlapping parts, applying this technique to solve real world problems.