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Social Studies - 3rd Grade

District Course #313

Course Description

The third grade social studies curriculum is an introduction to communities and Boise City. During the first semester, students focus on citizen rights and responsibilities, laws, qualities of good leaders, and local elections. Students study the relationships and conflicts between early settlers and the native cultures. The second semester studies about our country's early history, including significant internal conflicts, and the political, environmental, cultural, and economic history of Boise. State standards are imbedded throughout the course and guide its instructional objectives.

A Note on Standards

The third grade curriculum includes both Boise School District and State of Idaho standards. State standards include content knowledge and skills in the following areas: critical thinking, geography, exploration and expansion, economics, migration and immigration, cultural and social development, political systems, government, citizen responsibilities, and international relations. While each standard is expressed through specific, associated instructional objectives, instructors should seek opportunities to apply the standards throughout the course.

Adopted Materials

Our Communities
Banks, James A, et al.
New York: Macmillan/McGraw–Hill School Publishing Company, 2003.

Copyright Resources

K – 12 Social Studies Scope and Sequence

Course Scope

First Semester Timeline

Unit 1 Citizenship September
Unit 2 Government October
Unit 3 Mapping/Geography November
Unit 4 Economics/Goods and Services/Technology December

Second Semester Timeline

Unit 5 Human Rights January
Unit 6 Immigration and Migration February
Unit 7 Early Boise/Pioneers March
Unit 8 Present Day Boise April/May

Assessment Correlation acronyms key

Unit 1

Citizenship

September

Instructional Objective

313.01 Explain that there are benefits for following the laws and consequences for breaking the laws of the community.

Standard Reference
3.SS.4.1.2

No.

Performance Objective

Resource Reference

Assessment Correlation

01

Discuss school and classroom rules.

Use classroom discipline plan.

TMA

02

Brainstorm and develop classroom rules and why they are important.

Our Communities pp. A5; 258-259

TMA

03

Recognize the benefits and consequences of his or her own actions.

 

TMA

Instructional Objective

313.02 Tell how local government officials are chosen, e.g., election, appointment.

Standard Reference
3.SS.4.2.2

No.

Performance Objective

Resource Reference

Assessment Correlation

01

Differentiate between classroom rule vs. majority vote via class discussion.

Our Communities p. 227

TMA

02

Discuss local elections and how local government officials are chosen.

Our Communities pp. 220-221; 224; 226-227; 231; Newspaper, Radio, TV; Boise Unit

TMA

Instructional Objective

313.03 Identify qualities of a good leader.

Standard Reference
District 31303

No.

Performance Objective

Resource Reference

Assessment Correlation

01

Recognize the rights and responsibilities of American citizenship.

Our Communities pp. 250-255

 

02

List, debate, or chart qualities of a good leader. (Begin with National Leaders and move to Local leaders, school leaders, team leaders, etc.)

Our Communities pp. 218-237; Boise Unit

TMA

Instructional Objective

313.04 Identify ways children and adults can participate in their community and/or local governments.

Standard Reference
3.SS.4.3.1

No.

Performance Objective

Resource Reference

Assessment Correlation

01

List at least five ways children and adults can participate in the public life of their community.

Our Communities pp.48; 142; 176; 258; 332; Boise Unit

TMA

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Unit 2

Government

October

Instructional Objective

313.05 Explain why communities have laws.

Standard Reference
3.SS.4.1.1

No.

Performance Objective

Resource Reference

Assessment Correlation

01

List at least five community laws and state reasons why they are important to the citizens of Boise.

School Resource Officer

TMA

Instructional Objective

313.06 Identify and explain the basic functions of local government.

Standard Reference
3.SS.4.2.1

Associated Instructional Objectives:

 

Identify the people or groups that make, apply, and enforce laws in the community.

3.SS.4.1.3

Describe services commonly and primarily provided by governments for the community.

3.SS.4.2.3

No.

Performance Objective

Resource Reference

Assessment Correlation

01

Recognize that an elected mayor and city council govern most communities.

Our Communities pp. 218-227; Boise Unit

TMA

02

Explain the different services primarily provided by governments for the community.

 

TMA

Instructional Objective

313.07 Identify some of the freedoms guaranteed to American citizens in the Constitution and the Bill of Rights.

Standard Reference
District 31307

No.

Performance Objective

Resource Reference

Assessment Correlation

01

Name at least five guarantees stated in the Constitution.

Our Communities pp. A2-A4

TMA

02

Illustrate one freedom of the Bill of Rights.

Our Communities p. A3

TMA

Instructional Objective

313.08 Identify many of the responsibilities and rights of American citizens.

Standard Reference
District 31308

No.

Performance Objective

Resource Reference

Assessment Correlation

01

Describe how citizens of a community can work together to solve problems.

Our Communities pp. 18-19; 218; 248-255; 262-267; 269-271

TMA

Instructional Objective

313.09 Identify the three branches of government.

Standard Reference
District 31309

No.

Performance Objective

Resource Reference

Assessment Correlation

01

Outline the three branches of government and the function of each.

Our Communities pp. 234-235; 237

TMA

Instructional Objective

313.10 Identify significant early American leaders.

Standard Reference
District 31310

No.

Performance Objective

Resource Reference

Assessment Correlation

01

Examine the qualities of an early American leader.

Our Communities pp. 230-233

TMA

02

Create a Venn diagram comparing two early American leaders.

 

TMA

Instructional Objective

313.11 Discuss how the United States became a nation after the colonists defeated the British in the Revolutionary War.

Standard Reference
District 31311

No.

Performance Objective

Resource Reference

Assessment Correlation

01

Identify one main cause of the Revolutionary War.

 

TMA

02

Recognize that the American Revolution brought independence to our country.

Our Communities p. A8

TMA

Instructional Objective

313.12 Explain that people in the United States share a common heritage through patriotic holidays and symbols.

Standard Reference
3.SS.1.1.1

No.

Performance Objective

Resource Reference

Assessment Correlation

01

Recite the Pledge of Allegiance on a daily basis.

Ongoing

TMA

02

Examine the words and meaning of the Pledge of Allegiance.

Our Communities pp. A7; 254-255

TMA

03

Identify patriotic holidays. (Memorial Day, July 4th, Independence Day)

Our Communities pp. 354-355; 358-359; 320-321

TMA

04

Identify national documents. (Constitution, Declaration of Independence, Bill of Rights, Pledge of Allegiance)

pp. Our Communities A2-A7; 254; 288

TMA

05

Identify and describe the meaning of a given national symbol. (bald eagle, flag, US seal)

Our Communities pp.254; 273; 286

TMA

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Unit 3

Mapping/Geography

November

Instructional Objective

313.13 Use days, weeks, months, and years to measure time.

Standard Reference
District 31313

No.

Performance Objective

Resource Reference

Assessment Correlation

01

Recognize the proper date of each day.

 

TMA

02

Create a classroom timeline of daily, weekly, or monthly events to continue throughout the year.

Our Communities pp. 104-105; 146-147

TMA

Instructional Objective

313.14 Identify decades and centuries as a measure of time.

Standard Reference
District 31314

No.

Performance Objective

Resource Reference

Assessment Correlation

01

Define what a decade and century are.

Our Communities pp 46; 104-105; 121; 128-129; 132; 145; 147; 166; 256; 308

TMA

02

Create a timeline that depicts at least 20 world/national events during the last century.

Our Communities pp. 104-105; 121

TMA

Instructional Objective

313.15 Use a map title, map key, scale, cardinal directions, and symbols to interpret a map.

Standard Reference
3.SS.2.1.4

No.

Performance Objective

Resource Reference

Assessment Correlation

01

Identify a specific area on a map using a compass rose.

Our Communities pp. H13; 112

TMA

02

Locate a feature on a map using the legend or key.

Our Communities pp. H11-12

TMA

03

Use a teacher or student created map with key and scale.

Our Communities p. 82

 

Instructional Objective

313.16 Locate on a map waterways, landforms, cities, states, and national boundaries using standard map symbols.

Standard Reference
3.SS.2.1.3

No.

Performance Objective

Resource Reference

Assessment Correlation

01

Find and label designated waterways, landforms, cities, states, and national boundaries on a world map using a legend.

Our Communities pp. H11-H16; R4-R20

TMA

02

Describe a given landform.

Our Communities pp. H15; 38-39; R22-23; 30-33

TMA

Instructional Objective

313.17Use a number/letter grid to find specific locations on a map.

Standard Reference
3.SS.2.1.5

No.

Performance Objective

Resource Reference

Assessment Correlation

01

Locate a given feature using given grid coordinates on a map.

Our Communities p. H16; 238-239

TMA

Instructional Objective

313.18 Describe the concepts of globe, continent, country, state, county, city/town, and neighborhood.

Standard Reference
3.SS.2.1.1

No.

Performance Objective

Resource Reference

Assessment Correlation

01

Identify a specific hemisphere on a map or globe.

Our Communities pp. 290-291

TMA

02

Locate a specific continent or ocean on a world map.

Our Communities p. H10

TMA

03

Identify lines of longitude or latitude on a globe.

 

TMA

04

Construct and label a globe that includes the seven continents, Northern and Southern Hemispheres, and the equator.

Our Communities pp. H9-H10; R4-R5

TMA

05

Identify Idaho, Ada County and Boise on a map.

Our Communities p. 212; Boise Unit

TMA

06

Illustrate a map that shows how to travel from home to school.

Our Communities p. 61

TMA

Instructional Objective

313.19 Find the United States, Idaho, the state capital Boise, and own community on a map.

Standard Reference
3.SS.2.1.2

No.

Performance Objective

Resource Reference

Assessment Correlation

01

Locate the United States on a world map.

Our Communities pp. H7-H9; R4-R5

TMA

02

Locate Idaho and Boise on a US map.

Our Communities pp. R18-19

TMA

03

Locate Boise on a state map.

Our Communities p. 212

TMA

04

Locate school community on a Boise City map.

Our Communities pp. 30-35

TMA

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Unit 4

Economics/Goods and Services/Technology

December

Instructional Objective

313.20 Explain how communities are linked together through media, technology, phones, radio, etc.

Standard Reference
District 31320

No.

Performance Objective

Resource Reference

Assessment Correlation

01

Discuss, list, or chart how communities are linked together through media, technology, phones, radio, etc.

Our Communities pp. A6; 122-133

TMA

Instructional Objective

313.21 Explain the difference between public and private property.

Standard Reference
3.SS.3.1.2

No.

Performance Objective

Resource Reference

Assessment Correlation

01

Create a comparison chart showing the differences between public and private property.

 

TMA

Instructional Objective

313.22 Compare how machines and technology are used in homes, schools, communities, and the global community.

Standard Reference
District 31322

No.

Performance Objective

Resource Reference

Assessment Correlation

01

Brainstorm and discuss ways in which different forms of technology are used in our daily lives.

Our Communities pp. 124-133; 138-139; 142-143; 182-199; 305

TMA

02

Compare and contrast technology from past to present.

Our Communities pp. 122-133; 334-339

TMA

Instructional Objective

313.23 Explain the difference between goods and services.

Standard Reference
District 31323

No.

Performance Objective

Resource Reference

Assessment Correlation

01

Create a chart using pictures that demonstrate some goods and services found in the community.

Our Communities pp. 160-165; 179-181; 192-199; 210-211; Boise Unit

TMA

02

Classify an occupation as one that provides goods or a service.

Our Communities Unit 3; Boise Unit

TMA

03

Categorize goods or services.

Our Communities Unit 3; Boise Unit

TMA

Instructional Objective

313.24 Explain the concepts of supply and demand and the role of the consumer and producer.

Standard Reference
3.SS.3.1.1

No.

Performance Objective

Resource Reference

Assessment Correlation

01

Recognize concepts and effects of supply and demand.

Our Communities pp. 186-187

TMA

02

Create a Venn diagram comparing and contrasting produces and consumers.

Our Communities pp. 162-163

TMA

Instructional Objective

313.25 Describe the purposes and benefits of savings.

Standard Reference
3.SS.3.1.3

No.

Performance Objective

Resource Reference

Assessment Correlation

01

Create a virtual bank account. Use fictitious checks and registries to practice consumer activities. (Integrate technology and math.)

Our Communities pp. 171-177

TMA

02

Explain the purposes and benefits of having a savings account.

 

TMA

Instructional Objective

313.26 Identify ways machines and technology have evolved over time and have changed the lives of people.

Standard Reference
District 31326

No.

Performance Objective

Resource Reference

Assessment Correlation

01

Illustrate a specific machine or piece of technology showing its evolution.

Our Communities pp. 305; 185; H4; 133; 142; 182-189

TMA

02

Write a paragraph on how the machine or technology has changed the lives of people.

Our Communities pp. 142-143; 185

TMA

Instructional Objective

313.27 Name some of the changes that have occurred to the local community due to technological advances.

Standard Reference
District 31327

No.

Performance Objective

Resource Reference

Assessment Correlation

01

List at least five changes that have occurred in Boise due to technological advances.

Boise Unit

TMA

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Unit 5

Human Rights

January

Instructional Objective

313.28 Identify reasons for voluntary immigration and involuntary movement of people.

Standard Reference
3.SS.1.2.3

No.

Performance Objective

Resource Reference

Assessment Correlation

01

Read and discuss literature about slavery.

 

TMA

02

Contrast (after reading and discussing teacher-shared literature about slavery) how the first Africans came to America vs. how the European settlers came.

Our Communities pp. 90-91; 294

TMA

Instructional Objective

313.29 Define slavery and explain how the Civil War brought an end to slavery in the United States.

Standard Reference
District 31329

No.

Performance Objective

Resource Reference

Assessment Correlation

01

Describe what slavery is.

Our Communities pp. 90-91

TMA

02

Relate how the Civil War Brought an end to slavery in the US.

Our Communities pp. 114-119

TMA

Instructional Objective

313.30 Recognize the concepts of popular consent, respect for the individual, equality of opportunity and personal liberty.

Standard Reference
District 31330

No.

Performance Objective

Resource Reference

Assessment Correlation

01

Recognize the struggle for equal rights among minorities.

Our Communities pp. 116-119

TMA

02

Name, after the teacher reads literature about Martin Luther King, at least five beliefs he had.

Our Communities pp. A9; 118-119; 354

TMA

03

Identify what it means to have respect for all individuals.

Our Communities pp. A5; 259

TMA

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Unit 6

Immigration and Migration

February

313.31 Demonstrate knowledge that the first people to inhabit American lands included native Alaskans and native Hawaiians, as well as native peoples in the contiguous forty-eight states.

Standard Reference
District 31331

No.

Performance Objective

Resource Reference

Assessment Correlation

01

Identify at least five groups of early immigrants.

Our Communities pp. 286

TMA

02

Explain why immigrants came and what they brought to our country.

Our Communities pp. 107-111; 286

TMA

03

Understand that the Shoshone Indians inhabited the Boise area before the white people came.

Boise Unit

TMA

Instructional Objective

313.32 Share the origins of classmates’ ancestors.

Standard Reference
3.SS.1.2.1

No.

Performance Objective

Resource Reference

Assessment Correlation

01

Research a personal timeline.

Our Communities pp. 104-105; 280-343

TMA

Instructional Objective

313.33 Describe how migration and immigration are continuous processes.

Standard Reference
3.SS.1.2.2

Associated Instructional Objective:

 

Explore connections that the local community has with other communities throughout the world.

3.SS.5.1.1

No.

Performance Objective

Resource Reference

Assessment Correlation

01

Create a graph (using statistics from Resource Reference) showing ten countries that have had the highest immigration numbers to the United States in the past year.

Our Communities pp. 110-111; 287 See Resource Reference

TMA

02

Discuss some connections that the local community has with other communities throughout the world.

 

TMA

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Unit 7

Early Boise/Pioneers

March

Instructional Objective

313.34 Explore relationships and conflicts between early settlers and Native Americans.

Standard Reference
District 31334

No.

Performance Objective

Resource Reference

Assessment Correlation

01

Read and discuss literature about early settlers and Native Americans.

Boise Unit

TMA

02

Illustrate and write a short paragraph about one relationship/conflict between early settlers and Native Americans.

Boise Unit

TMA

Instructional Objective

313.35 Analyze past and present settlement patterns of the community.

Standard Reference
3.SS.2.3.1

No.

Performance Objective

Resource Reference

Assessment Correlation

01

Evaluate reasons people settled in various places in Boise. (i. e. mining)

Our Communities pp. 182-189; Boise Unit

TMA

Instructional Objective

313.36 Identify geographic features influencing settlement patterns of the community.

Standard Reference
3.SS.2.3.2

No.

Performance Objective

Resource Reference

Assessment Correlation

01

Identify geographic features of Boise using the city map.

Our Communities pp. 30-37; Boise Unit

TMA

02

Examine how the features might have influenced settlement patterns.

Our Communities pp. 30-37; Boise Unit

TMA

Instructional Objective

313.37 Identify ways the land around the community has been changed by people, technology, and natural forces.

Standard Reference
District 31337

No.

Performance Objective

Resource Reference

Assessment Correlation

01

Compare and contrast pictures of past and present Boise.

Our Communities pp. A16; 114-131; 136-141; Boise Unit

TMA

02

Create a bulletin board using local newspaper articles/pictures that depict change in Boise.

Boise Unit

TMA

Instructional Objective

313.38 Identify the primary sources of information about local history.

Standard Reference
District 31338

No.

Performance Objective

Resource Reference

Assessment Correlation

01

List at least five sources where students could locate information about the history of Boise.

Our Communities pp. 114-119; Boise Unit

TMA

Instructional Objective

313.39 Identify some significant events that have occurred in and around the community.

Standard Reference
District 31339

No.

Performance Objective

Resource Reference

Assessment Correlation

01

Create a timeline that depicts at least 20 significant events that have occurred in the Boise community from 1800-1900.

Boise Unit

TMA

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Unit 8

Present Day Boise

April/May

Instructional Objective

313.40 Investigate the history of your community.

Standard Reference
3.SS.1.1.2

No.

Performance Objective

Resource Reference

Assessment Correlation

01

Research a Boise landmark, write a report, and present information.

Boise Unit

TMA

02

List at least 10 historical landmarks in Boise.

Boise Unit

TMA

Instructional Objective

313.41 Compare different cultural groups in the community including their distinctive foods, clothing styles, and traditions.

Standard Reference
3.SS.1.1.3

Associated Instructional Objectives:

 

Identify and describe ways families, groups, tribes and communities influence the individual’s daily life and personal choices.

3.SS.1.1.4

Examine the contributions from various cultures from other parts of the world to the development of the community and how they make that community unique.

3.SS.5.1.2

No.

Performance Objective

Resource Reference

Assessment Correlation

01

Investigate and list the major culture groups in Boise.

Our Communities pp. 342-343; Boise Unit

TMA

02

Create a Venn diagram comparing three culture groups.

Our Communities pp. 106-111; 284-289; Boise Unit

TMA

Instructional Objective

313.42 Describe some traditions in the community.

Standard Reference
District 31342

No.

Performance Objective

Resource Reference

Assessment Correlation

01

Construct a travel brochure that depicts and describes traditions, customs, and the way of life in Boise.

Our Communities pp. 307; 311-321; 324-331; 334-339; Boise Unit

TMA

Instructional Objective

313.43 Explain how land, natural resources, labor, trade, and/or technology affect economic activities in the local community.

Standard Reference
3.SS.3.2.1

No.

Performance Objective

Resource Reference

Assessment Correlation

01

Identify natural resources in Boise.

Our Communities pp. 42-43; 47; 47; 49; Boise Unit

TMA

02

Discuss how natural resources impact the economy of Boise. Integrate current events.

Our Communities pp. 30-37; 40-45; 52-57; Boise Unit

TMA

Instructional Objective

313.44 Identify examples of transportation and communication networks in the local community and explain how they encourage economic prosperity and growth.

Standard Reference District31344

No.

Performance Objective

Resource Reference

Assessment Correlation

01

Discuss different modes of transportation and draw pictures illustrating a mode of transportation in the Boise community.

Our Communities pp. 23; 25; 101-103; 142; 192-203; 212; Boise Unit

TMA

Instructional Objective

313.45 Differentiate between cause and effect.

Standard Reference
District 31345

No.

Performance Objective

Resource Reference

Assessment Correlation

01

Explore the causes and effects of population growth in Boise.

Our Communities pp. 260-261; Boise Unit

TMA

Instructional Objective

313.46 Compare and contrast city/suburb/town and urban/rural.

Standard Reference
3.SS.2.3.3

No.

Performance Objective

Resource Reference

Assessment Correlation

01

Define city, suburb, town, urban, and rural.

Our Communities pp. 21-23

TMA

02

Identify Boise as a city and list at least 5 factors that make it a city.

Our Communities pp. 21-22; 27; 93; Boise Unit

TMA

03

Compare and contrast Boise with a local suburb, town, or rural area.

Our Communities pp. 27; Boise Unit

TMA

Instructional Objective

313.47 Identify different points of view.

Standard Reference
District 31347

No.

Performance Objective

Resource Reference

Assessment Correlation

01

Explore points of view of local community issues through multi-media resources. (i.e. editorials from newspapers, TV news, local internet sites)

Our Communities pp. 142-143; 258-259

TMA

Instructional Objective

313.48 Identify current events involving the community.

Standard Reference
District 31348

No.

Performance Objective

Resource Reference

Assessment Correlation

01

Create classroom bulletin board using articles from local newspapers.

Our Communities p. 227

TMA

Instructional Objective

313.49 Identify factual statements in sources of news using the five W’s: who, what, where, when, and why.

Standard Reference
District 31349

No.

Performance Objective

Resource Reference

Assessment Correlation

01

Investigate an article pertaining to Boise in a local newspaper identifying statements using the five W’s: who, what, where, when, why.

Boise Unit

TMA

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