SOCIAL STUDIES CONTENT CONNECTION TEMPLATE II Grade 3

Story Town Theme Title: A Place for All Theme 5

Social Studies Theme Connection: Determine Relationship Between Human Settlement and Geography

Essential Question(s)  What are the main geographic features on Earth?

Story Town: Main Selection and Leveled Other Resources Books  The Life of a Pond Classroom Library any nonfiction books about  The Everglades landforms, habitats, biomes  Desert Lives World Map  Where the River Begins US Map with Regions

Outside Books: Outside Resources:  Reader’s Theater about Landforms  A Seaside Alphabet http://www.rosalindflynn.com/pdf%20files/Landforms%20RT %20script.pdf  It Could Still Be a Desert  Create Your Own Biome games  Geography A-Z (http://www.mrnussbaum.com/biomes.htm http://www.amazon.com/Geography-Picture- Glossary-Trophy-Books/dp/0064460991  Habitat Maker  There’s a Map on My Lap! (http://www.mrnussbaum.com/habitatmaker2.htm)  Create Your Own Continent (http://www.sunny.issaquah.wednet.edu/Teachers/mcconnellk/Create- Continent.pdf)

Core Program Vocabulary (Tier II) Content Vocabulary (Tier III)  Surrounding  Grassland  Equator  Detail  Mountain  Tropic  Harsh  Tundra  North  Bleak  Desert  East  Drifts  Plain  South  Scarce  Wetland  West  Shelters  Natural  Continents  Conserved resource  Region  Permanently  Forest  Latitude  Ocean  Longitude

Comprehension Focus Strategy Comprehension Focus Skill  Reread information that doesn’t make  Look for details and facts, information sense told in time order.

Connecting Social Studies Standard(s) Objective(s)  Standard 1  Identify the geographic features Students will understand how geography common to areas where human influences community location and development settlements exist

Intended Learning Outcomes  Students will be able to identify the main geographic land features and to distinguish between them.

Social Studies Activities t0 Develop Social Studies Concepts

Learn landforms using these riddles. (http://www.totally3rdgrade.com/landforms.html)

Illustrated Landforms on Enchanted Learning (http://www.enchantedlearning.com/geography/landforms/glossary.shtml)

Geography of Our Country (Use with U.S. regions map) The large flat areas of our country we call The plains and they have no mountains at all Plateaus are flat but higher they stand Than any of its surrounding land Deep valleys with steep hill sides called canyons are grand And sloping mountains all make up our beautiful land

Chorus: The geography of our country is its land forms, climates and regions The geography of our country is its land forms, climates and regions

The climate of weather depends if you're near or far from the ocean Both rain and snow that fall are forms of precipitation The higher above sea level you go, the higher your altitude It's colder up high than it is below, down by the ocean blue

The U.S. has five regions of land And with the longitude and latitude you can find out where you stand