Standard Course of Study :: Social Studies — Grade 3

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There's no place like home: This Xpeditions lesson uses children's literature and maps to explore reasons for past and present settlement. Students give various reasons people in the past or present have chosen to settle and live in different regions of the United States. (Learn more); Format: lesson plan (grade 3 Social Studies); Provided by: National Geographic

Pioneer America: Legendary westerners: In this ARTSEDGE lesson, students study legendary westerners during the period of westward expansion in U.S. history. Students research, in pairs, one legendary westerner. Each student pair scripts a television interview with the westerner then performs... (Learn more); Format: lesson plan (grade 1–4 Social Studies and Theater Arts Education); Provided by: ArtsEdge

Born on a mountaintop? Davy Crockett, tall tales, and history: The culminating activity in this unit is the student creation of tall tales. Such tales are built by combining the fictional element of exaggeration with historical elements of nostalgia about the past and anxiety about the future. John Henry, for example,... (Learn more); Format: lesson plan (grade 3–5 English Language Arts and Social Studies); Provided by: EDSITEment

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