Dever Avenue School
3rd Grade Social Studies Curriculum Map

September

Essential Questions:

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Content

Concepts

Skills

Materials/Resources

Assessment

Maps & Globes

Continental Panagea

Mapping Skills

Compass Rose

Reading a Map

Grade level created materials

A World of Communities

Children’ Atlas

McGraw Hill Communities

Grade level created materials

Teacher created test (following ELA strategies)

October

Essential Questions:

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Content

Concepts

Skills

Materials/Resources

Assessment

Maps & Globes

Continents and Oceans

Continental Panagea

7 Continental Plates (tie in with science)

Columbus

Mapping Skills

Compass Rose

Reading a Map

Jig sawing seven continents together

Columbus – European Explorers

Grade level created materials

A World of Communities

Children’ Atlas

Encounter by Mem Fox

Pedro’s Journal by Pam Conrad

Interfact Atlas

Grade level created materials

Teacher created test (following ELA strategies)

Mapping Skills Assessment

November

Essential Questions:

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Content

Concepts

Skills

Materials/Resources

Assessment

Maps and Globes England and Exploration Heritage Pilgrims Veteran’s Day

Immigration

Mapping Skills Compass Rose Reading a Map Journaling (tie in with writer’s workshop)

Grade level created materials A World of Communities Children’s Atlas McGraw Hill Interfact Atlas Communities If You Sailed on the Mayflower in 1620 (main idea strategies) Molly’s Pilgrim by Barbara Cohen Sarah Morton’s Day Samuel Eaton’s Day I was Dreaming to Come to America… Memories from the Ellis Island Oral History Project So Far from the Sea by Eve Bunting The Wall by Eve Bunting Links to other books about Immigration

Grade level created materials Teacher created test (following ELA strategies) Studies of main idea through…If you Sailed on the Mayflower in 1620. Pilgrim Assessment

December/

January

Essential Questions:

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Content

Concepts

Skills

Materials/Resources

Assessment

Maps and Globes

North America

Mexico

United States

Canada

Study of Mexico…December to January

Strands: Holidays, festivals, cultural country

Economics –supply and demand/Money

Geography

Ethnic Differences

Farming

Natural Resources

Imports/Exports

Mapping Skills

Compass Rose

Reading a Map

Spanish Vocabulary

Grade level materials

A World of Communities

Children’s Atlas

McGraw Hill

Interfact Atlas

Communities

Tortilla Factory by Gary Paulsen

Tortillas A Wrap! - Nutrition Lesson Plans

From corn to tortillas

Grade level created materials

Teacher created tests (…following ELA strategies)

Field trip to Don Juan’s Restaurant.

February - March

Essential Questions:

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Content

Concepts

Skills

Materials/Resources

Assessment

Maps and Globes

England

Ireland

Abraham Lincoln

George Washington

Mapping (Political and Geographical)

Irish Potato Famine

Immigration

Flag/Freedom/Democracy

Black History Month

Mapping Skills

Compass Rose

Reading a Map

Grade level created materials

A World of Communities

Children’s Atlas

McGraw Hill

Interfact Atlas

Communities

I was Dreaming to Come to America…Memories from the Ellis Island Oral History Project

Grace’s Letter to Lincoln by Peter & Connie Roop

George Washington by Ingri & Edgar Parin D’Aulaire

George Washington…A picture Book biography

Abraham Lincoln

The Blue and the Gray by Eve Bunting

The Other Side by Jacqueline Woodson.

History: Discovery and Exploration
The Discovery and Exploration directory included here offers research tools with maps, travel literature, and atlases; links to bibliographies, journals, and biographies, as well as time lines and historic informatin. Young historians in upper-elementary, middle, and high school will find a wealth of easily accessed information.

Grade level created materials

Teacher created tests (following ELA strategies)

Written Exercises

Author’s Message

Historical Overview

April

Essential Questions:

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Content

Concepts

Skills

Materials/Resources

Assessment

Maps and Globes

Asia – China

Strands:

Holidays/festivals/Cultural Differences

County

Economics- Supply & Demand/Money

Geography

Ethnic Differences

Farming

Natural Resources

Import/Export

Mapping Skills

Compass Rose

Reading a Map

Grade level created materials

A World of Communities

Children’s Atlas

McGraw Hill

Interfact Atlas

Communities

Grade level created materials

Teacher created tests (following ELA strategies)

May/June

Essential Questions:

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Content

Concepts

Skills

Materials/Resources

Assessment

Maps and Globes

Japan

Asia/China/Japan connections

World War II

Strands:

Holidays/Festivals/Cultural Differences

Economics- Supply & Demand/Money

Geography

Ethnic Differences

Farming

Natural Resources

Import/Export

Mapping Skills

Compass Rose

Reading a Map

Arts

Education

Business

World War II

Grade level created materials

A World of Communities

Children’s Atlas

McGraw Hill

Interfact Atlas

Communities

Faithful Elephants by Yukio Tsuchiya

Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes (Chapter Book and Picture Book)

Tree of Cranes by Allen Say

The Lost Lake by Allen Say

Grandfather’s Journey by Allen Say

Lon Po Po by Ed Young…and many others.

Grade level created materials

Ongoing assessment

Teacher created tests (following ELA strategies)

Running Records