P.S. 105 The Blythebourne
Collaboration / Grade 3 Unit 1 2012-2013* / Grade 3 (P.S. 105 The Blythebourne)
Wednesday, June 27, 2012, 11:26AM /
Unit: Social Studies (Week 1, 12 Weeks)
Standards
NYS: CCLS:ELA & Literacy in History/Social Studies, Science, & Technical Subjects PreK–5, NYS: 3rd Grade , Reading: Informational Text
Key Ideas and Details
1. Read closely to determine what the text says explicitly and to make logical inferences from it; cite specific textual evidence when writing or speaking to support conclusions drawn from the text.
§ 1. Ask and answer questions to demonstrate understanding of a text, referring explicitly to the text as the basis for the answers.
5. Analyze the structure of texts, including how specific sentences, paragraphs, and larger portions of the text (e.g., a section, chapter, scene, or stanza) relate to each other and the whole.
§ 5. Use text features and search tools (e.g., key words, sidebars, hyperlinks) to locate information relevant to a given topic efficiently.
Integration of Knowledge and Ideas
7. Integrate and evaluate content presented in diverse media and formats, including visually and quantitatively, as well as in words.
§ 7. Use information gained from illustrations (e.g., maps, photographs) and the words in a text to demonstrate understanding of the text (e.g., where, when, why, and how key events occur).
Big Ideas
In what ways are the world communities similar and how are they different? / Essential Questions
Essential Question:
How does theearth's geography influence the development of communities around the world?
Lead Questions:
1.)How do weuse tools to understand geography?
2.) What are Earth's geographic features?
3.) How does geography affect the waypeople live?
4.)How do communities develop and change over time?
What are the features of a culture?
Content
1. Continents and countries havegeographic features such as oceans, rivers, mountains, etc.
2. Places can be located using
cardinal and intermediate
directions
3. All countries and civilizations have culture
4. Cultures and civilizations
develop and change over time
5. All peoples have rich cultural
traditions that are passed down
from generation to generation in
a variety of ways
7. Communities use human and natural resources in different ways.
8.Understand thatpeople move and/or settlebased on changingenvironments/needs / Skills/Strategies
-Map Skills:interpretinggraphs
-Research Skills
- Note taking (Taking down keywords and synthesizing their own ideas)
- Internet skills
- irrelevant vs relevant
-compare/contrast aspects of culture in a respectful way
-predict features of a community given certain geographical details
Assessment/ Performance Task
Formative: Performance: Authentic Task
You are a world traveler. Draw and labela picture ofwhere you want to live in the worldandin yourwriting explain why youlike the geography andculture of this place.
Learning Activities
Launchingthe Unit:
-Take a community walk and identify local evidence of different cultures.
-For Activities, please see link for unit guide under "resources"
Introduction toWorldGeography:
-"Creating a Terrain model" pg.62-71
Earth's Geographic Features:
-"Guess Who"pg. 72
Geography affects the waypeople live:
-"Natural resources"pg 83
-Adapting to our Environment" pg.89
How communities develop/change overtime:
-"Reading a Time-line" pg. 100 / Resources/Touchtone Texts/Field Trips
Trip:
Leif EricksonPark
resources:
http://earth.google.com
http://www.atlapedia.com/
https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/index.html
http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/globaltrek/
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/gmdhtml/gmdhome.html
Interactive Geography Games and Maps:
http://www.eduplace.com/geonet/
http://kids.nationalgeographic.com/Games/GeographyGames
http://www.reachtheworld.org/geogames/index.html
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