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Building on the work of K-2 understanding in economics, in which students developed basic economic concepts by relating them to their own wants and needs, third graders will understand how regions influence economics and entrepreneurship.
Standards For Learning:
Standards For Learning:
NC.3.G.1 Understand the earth's patterns by using the 5 themes of geography: (location, place, human-environment interaction, movement and regions).
NC.3.G.1.1 Find absolute and relative locations of places within the local community and region.
NC.3.G.1.2 Compare the human and physical characteristics of places.
NC.3.G.1.3 Exemplify how people adapt to, change and protect the environment to meet their needs.
NC.3.G.1.4 Explain how the movement of goods, people and ideas impact the community.
NC.3.G.1.5 Summarize the elements (cultural, demographic, economic and geographic) that define regions (community, state, nation and world).
NC.3.G.1.6 Compare various regions according to their characteristics.
Students Will Understand:
Students Will Understand:
- Students will understand and justify why people might adapt or change their environment.
- Students will understand and argue why protecting our environment is important.
- Students will understand and compare and contrast how and why people and ideas move and change.
- Students will understand and explain how a region develops an identity.
Essential Vocabulary
Essential Vocabulary
region
coastal plain
piedmont
mountain region
place
location
relative location
absolute location
latitude
longitude
movement
interaction
culture
impact
environment
landform
freshwater
saltwater
human characteristics
physical characteristics
Some Ideas To Try At Home:
Some Ideas To Try At Home:
- Use Google Maps, a North Carolina Atlas & Gazetteer, or any map/atlas identify their home and their destination on the map using latitude and longitude for both.
- Identify at least one physical feature (river, mountain, lake, etc) and one human feature (city, building, bridge, etc.) and determine how far away they are from their start place.
- Measure how many miles away the destination is from your home both in a straight line and by using major roads.
- Imagine traveling to the destination and follow along on the map to determine what towns, cities, states, and countries they would travel through during their trip. Identify other major landmarks (both human and physical) that they might see along the way.
- Discuss how building the roads that they would travel on changed the land and where the roads had to go around or over the environment.
- Think about what type of things in their lives (food, toys, clothes, books, etc) rely on the roads in order to get to the stores where we buy them.
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