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Gateway Regional School District SCOPE & SEQUENCE Social Studies – Massachusetts and its Cities and Towns: Geography and History - Grade 3 Evidence of Massachusetts Curriculum Possible Instructional Student Learning Month Standards Benchmarks Strategies (Assessment) TEXTBOOK – There is no textbook for this subject in third grade. CONCEPTS AND SKILLS 1. Explain the meaning of Students will KNOW: The Massachusetts Adventure textbook time periods or dates in The meaning of time periods and dates. historical narratives (decade, century, 1600s, 1776) and use them correctly in speaking Students will be able to DO: and writing. (H) List in chronological order the major historical events that are part of Massachusetts’ history. Use time periods and dates correctly in speaking and writing. 2. Observe visual sources Students will KNOW: Address Concepts and Skills standards 2 and 3 together such as historic paintings, How to use visual sources to learn about history. to develop students’ historical research capabilities. photographs, or illustrations Students develop these skills when gathering that accompany historical Students will be able to DO: information about the learning standards. narratives, and describe Draw upon data in paintings and artifacts to details such as clothing, hypothesize about the culture of indigenous people Online Resource - Dress Up setting, or action. (H) in Massachusetts Obtain historical data from a variety of sources, including: library and museum collections, historic sites, historical photos, journals, diaries, eyewitness accounts, newspapers, and the like; documentary films; and so on. Marshal needed information of the time and place in order to construct a story, explanation, or historical narrative. Page 1 of 11 Drafted by Karen Savoy, William Knittle, and Ann Fisk based on August 2003 Massachusetts History and Social Science Framework April 2009 Gateway Regional School District SCOPE & SEQUENCE Social Studies – Massachusetts and its Cities and Towns: Geography and History - Grade 3 Evidence of Massachusetts Curriculum Possible Instructional Student Learning Month Standards Benchmarks Strategies (Assessment) 3. Observe and describe local Students will KNOW: or regional historic artifacts How to use historical artifacts and sites to generate Online Resource – You Be the Historian and sites and generate questions about their function, construction, and Online Resource – A Colonial Family and Community questions about their significance. Online Resource – Early American Tools function, construction, and significance. (H) Students will be able to DO: Formulate historical questions from encounters with historical documents, eyewitness accounts, letters, diaries, artifacts, photos, historical sites, art, architecture, and other records from the past. 4. Use cardinal directions, Students will KNOW: Hougthon Mifflin Create a map of the local map scales, legends, and Cardinal directions are north, south, east, and west. Theme 1, pg 46Create a KWL chart to follow the steps community which includes titles to locate places on A compass rose has a symbol that shows where the for reading a map of the states of New England and cardinal directions, map contemporary maps of New cardinal directions are. places within Massachusetts. scales, legends, and titles. England, Massachusetts, and A legend is a map key that explains the lines, the local community. (G) symbols, and colors used on a map. Online resource Explore Your State with Maps by The title of a map names the subject of the map. National Geographic Xpedition is linked to national Geography standards Students will be able to DO: On a map of the United States, locate the New England states (Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Vermont, New Hampshire, Maine) The skills in this standard are applied in Learning and the Atlantic Ocean. Standards 3.1. and 3.8. On a map of Massachusetts, locate major cities and towns, Cape Ann, Cape Cod, the Connecticut River, the Merrimack River, the Charles River, and the Berkshire Hills 5. Describe the difference Students will KNOW: Visit a local historical museum and view maps from between a contemporary map Maps change as time progresses. earlier years. of their city or town and the map of their city or town in Students will be able to DO: the 18th, 19 th , or early 20 th Describe the differences between a contemporary century. (H, G) map of their city or town and an historical map of the same place. Page 2 of 11 Drafted by Karen Savoy, William Knittle, and Ann Fisk based on August 2003 Massachusetts History and Social Science Framework April 2009 Gateway Regional School District SCOPE & SEQUENCE Social Studies – Massachusetts and its Cities and Towns: Geography and History - Grade 3 Evidence of Massachusetts Curriculum Possible Instructional Student Learning Month Standards Benchmarks Strategies (Assessment) 6. Give examples of why it is Students will KNOW: The Massachusetts Adventure textbook/chap. 13 necessary for communities to Governments provide order and protect rights. have governments (e.g., governments provide order Students will be able to DO: and protect rights). (C) Give examples of how government provides order and protects rights. 7. Give examples of the Students will KNOW: different ways people in a People can influence their government by voting, Online Resource – Ladybug Story community can influence running for office, or participating in meetings. their local government (e.g., The Massachusetts Adventure textbook/chap. 13/14 by voting, running for office, Students will be able to DO: or participating in meetings). Give examples of different ways people can (C) influence their government. 8. Define what a tax is and Students will KNOW: The Massachusetts Adventure textbook/chap. 13/14 the purposes for taxes, and What a tax is and the purposes for taxes. with the help of their teachers and parents, give examples of different kinds of taxes (e.g., Students will be able to DO: property, sales, or income Give examples of taxes and what they are used for. taxes). (E) 9. Define specialization in Students will KNOW: Houghton Mifflin HM Theme 2, Selection 3 jobs and businesses and give Jobs and businesses specialize. HM Theme 2, Selection 3 - is about a fantasy farm, but examples of specialized might be a link to exploring farms as one part of the businesses in the community. local economy. (E) Students will be able to DO: Give examples of specialized jobs and businesses in the community. Page 3 of 11 Drafted by Karen Savoy, William Knittle, and Ann Fisk based on August 2003 Massachusetts History and Social Science Framework April 2009 Gateway Regional School District SCOPE & SEQUENCE Social Studies – Massachusetts and its Cities and Towns: Geography and History - Grade 3 Evidence of Massachusetts Curriculum Possible Instructional Student Learning Month Standards Benchmarks Strategies (Assessment) 10. Define barter, give Students will KNOW: examples of bartering (e.g., Bartering is one way of getting things you need or trading baseball cards with want. each other), and explain how Buying things you need or want is another way. money makes it easier for people to get things they Students will be able to DO: want. (E) Give examples and show how bartering can get you things you need or want. Evidence of Student Massachusetts Curriculum Possible Instructional Learning Month Standards Benchmarks Strategies (Assessment) LEARNING STANDARDS 3.1 On a map of the United Students will KNOW: From memory, label the New States, locate the New Skills identified in Concepts and Skills Hougthon Mifflin England states (Connecticut, England states Standard 4 Theme 1, pg 46Create a KWL chart to follow the steps for reading a Rhode Island, Massachusetts, (Connecticut, Rhode Island, map of the states of New England and places within Massachusetts. Vermont, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Vermont, Students will be able to DO: Maine) and the Atlantic Ocean New Hampshire, Maine) On a map of the United States, locate the on a map of the United States and the Atlantic Ocean. On New England states (Connecticut, Rhode a map of Massachusetts, Island, Massachusetts, Vermont, New Online Resource –Kids Connect Create a map of locate major cities and Hampshire, Maine) and the Atlantic Ocean. Massachusetts that identifies towns, Cape Ann, Cape On a map of Massachusetts, locate major major cities and towns, Cape Cod, the Connecticut River, cities and towns, Cape Ann, Cape Cod, the Ann, Cape Cod, the the Merrimack River, the Connecticut River, the Merrimack River, Connecticut River, the Charles River, and the the Charles River, and the Berkshire Hills Merrimack River, the Charles Berkshire Hills . (G) River, and the Berkshire Hills on a map of Massachusetts and which includes cardinal directions, map scales, legends, and titles. Page 4 of 11 Drafted by Karen Savoy, William Knittle, and Ann Fisk based on August 2003 Massachusetts History and Social Science Framework April 2009 Gateway Regional School District SCOPE & SEQUENCE Social Studies – Massachusetts and its Cities and Towns: Geography and History - Grade 3 Evidence of Student Massachusetts Curriculum Possible Instructional Learning Month Standards Benchmarks Strategies (Assessment) 3.2 Identify the Students will KNOW: Interdisciplinary connection - author study of Marcia Sewall or other Wampanoags and their Wampanoag eaders use of her writings. leaders at the time the Wampanoag way of life Pilgrims arrived, and describe their way of life. Students will be able to DO: Online Resource