Standards

3.H.1 Understand how events, individuals and ideas have influenced the history of local and regional communities.

3.H.1.1 Explain key historical events that occurred in the local community and regions over time.

3.H.1.2 Analyze the impact of contributions made by diverse historical figures in local communities and regions over time.

3.H.1.3 Exemplify the ideas that were significant in the development of local communities and regions

3.H.2 Use historical thinking skills to understand the context of events, people and places.

3.H.2.1 Explain change over time through historical narratives. (events, people and places)

3.H.2.2 Explain how multiple perspectives are portrayed through historical narratives.

3.C.1 Understand how diverse cultures are visible in local and regional communities.

3.C.1.1 Compare languages, foods and traditions of various groups living in local and regional communities.

3.C.1.2 Exemplify how various groups show artistic expression within the local and regional communities.

3.C1.3 Use non-fiction texts to explore how cultures borrow and share from each other (foods, languages, rules, traditions and behaviors).

Vocabulary

leadership, values, beliefs, settlement patterns, resources, change, perspective, languages, diversity, cultures, traditions

Essential Questions

1. How has a specific historical event affected and changed a community?

2. What actions of diverse individuals and groups shaped local communities and regions over time?

3. What shared ideas, goals and conflict amongst diverse cultures (language, foods, traditions, and groups) helped shape local communities and regions?

4. How can narratives and historical sources, including artistic expression, from multiple points of view be used to develop a deeper understanding of what happened in the past?