Last updated: 4/10/2025

3rd Grade Social Studies

Sept. - Mid. Dec.

Can demonstrate an understanding of Social Studies content and concepts

(1)

SS.E.3

Students will use a variety of intellectual skills to demonstrate their understanding of the geography of the interdependent world in which we live—local, national, and global—including the distribution of people, places, and environments over the Earth’s surface.

Continent

Ocean

Globe

Equator

North Pole

South Pole

Map

Key

Border

Symbol

Geography

Location

Compass Rose

Cardinal Directions

IntermediateDirections

Rural

Suburban

Urban

Community

Culture

Population

Transportation

Region

Physical Environment

Climate

Landform

Port

Natural

Resources

Minerals

Citizen

Opportunity

Immigrant

Custom

Ethnic Group

Migration

Great Migration

Ancestor

Industries

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Geography and map skills

Knowledge of the globe, maps, continents, oceans, equator, North and South Poles, North, South, West, East

Appropriate holidays

Leveled Readers

Trade Books

Teacher Made Resources

Book and teacher created tests

Hands on activities

Mid-Dec. - Mid. March

Can demonstrate an understanding of Social Studies content and concepts

(1)

SS.E.5

Students will use a variety of intellectual skills to demonstrate their understanding of the necessity for establishing governments; the governmental system of the United States and other nations; the United States Constitution; the basic civic values of American constitutional democracy; and the roles, rights, and responsibilities of citizenship, including avenues of participation.

Tradition

Livestock

Holiday

Civil Rights Movement

Memorial Day

Independence Day

Veterans Day

Martin Luther King, Jr. Day

Thanksgiving Day

President

Vice President

Government

Judicial Branch

Legislative Branch

Amendment

Constitution

Vote

Bill of Rights

Leveled Readers

Trade Books

Teacher Made Resources

Book and teacher created tests

Hands on activities

T3 - Mid-March - Mid. June

Can demonstrate an understanding of Social Studies content and concepts

(1)

SS.E.4

Students will use a variety of intellectual skills to demonstrate their understanding of how the United States and other societies develop economic systems and associated institutions to allocate scarce resources, how major decision-making units function in the United States and other national economies, and how an economy solves the scarcity problem through market and non-market mechanisms.

Leveled Readers

Trade Books

Teacher Made Resources

Book and teacher created tests

Hands on activities