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Social Studies — Grade 3

Goal 2: The learner will analyze the multiple roles that individuals perform in families, workplaces, and communities.

Objective 2.02. Analyze similarities and differences among families in different times and in different places.

Additional related resources

We’re in the process of aligning our content for students to the Standard Course of Study. As we do, you’ll find it here.

Tobacco bag stringing: Elementary activity three
In this activity for grades 3–6, students will read and evaluate primary source letters from the Tobacco Bag Stringing collection. This should be done after Activity one, which is the introductory activity about tobacco bag stringing.
Format: article
By Pauline S. Johnson.

General resources

Aligned lesson plans

Tobacco bag stringing: Elementary activity two
This activity for grades 3–6 will teach students how examining photographs can help them to better understand the past. This activity can be used as an introduction to looking at primary source photographs.
Format: lesson plan (multiple pages)
Families - Then and now
Students apply their knowledge of communities as they compare and contrast the home life described in Sarah Plain and Tall to the home life described in Because of Winn-Dixie.
Format: lesson plan (grade 3 Information Skills and Social Studies)
By Debbie Fox and Sherri Hendrix.

Resources on the web

Pioneer America: Pioneer living
In this ARTSEDGE lesson, students learn about what life was like for early American pioneers. After reading about pioneers in Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little House on the Prairie, students conduct independent research on one aspect of pioneer... (Learn more)
Format: lesson plan (grade 3–5 Social Studies and Theater Arts Education)
Provided by: The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
A Nepalese village and your town: What's the difference?
In this Xpeditions lesson, students explore the cultural customs of rural Nepal and consider the differences between Nepalese culture and their own. Students will: discuss what it would be like to travel to a country very different from... (Learn more)
Format: lesson plan (grade 3 Social Studies)
Provided by: Xpeditions
A lens into the past
This ARTSEDGE lesson uses photographs to describe the transition from old world to New World experienced by immigrants to the United States. Students gain an understanding of the new life of immigrants in this country, and learn how the medium of photography... (Learn more)
Format: lesson plan (grade 3–4 Visual Arts Education, English Language Arts, and Social Studies)
Provided by: ArtsEdge
Human migration: The story of a community's culture
In this Xpeditions lesson, students come to understand key concepts of human migration through the examination of maps and migration patterns. Students research and document the impact of migration on a region's cultural landscape. (Learn more)
Format: lesson plan (grade 3 Social Studies)
Provided by: National Geographic
Geographic groceries
Students explore the regions of their grocery store to see which foods hang out together and why. (Learn more)
Format: lesson plan (grade 1–7 Social Studies)
Provided by: National Geographic