This course was created by the Rethink Education Content Development Team. This course is aligned to the NC Standards for 3rd Grade Social Studies.

Explore 14,000 years of history from the NC Museum of History' exhibit, The Story of North Carolina in 360°—one gallery at a time. Designed with the student experience in mind, each tour features artifacts, photos, & videos.

In this interactive, students learn about landforms and how they are created. Students can view a slideshow, take a quiz, and sing karaoke.

In this activity, students use a story map to follow the historic route of the Buncombe Turnpike and learn more about its economic and cultural impact on western North Carolina. Students will also see how the landscape has transformed in the nearly 200 years since the creation of the Turnpike.

This resource provides a listing of the types of landforms and their definitions. Each definition is a link to additional information about each landform.

For this resource, students make their own USA by demonstrating their understanding of the locations of the major physical features of the United States.

In this lesson, students will identify all of the watersheds to which they belong. Students will read maps to identify bodies of water and order these bodies of water from smallest to largest, in order of flow.

In this activity, students study the geography of Greece and how it affects where people live and work. Students will then use art supplies to create a 3-D model of a Greek coastline.

This inquiry engages students in exploring world geography through the compelling questions "Where are we?" This question sparks students' intellectually curiosity through the study of geographic location and the impact of humans on their environment. Working with evidence from sources, students should understand that, although we can be in different places, our impact on Earth is worth considering.

This lesson will address the physical and human characteristics of the local community. Students will build geographic vocabulary as well as use map skills.

In this lesson, students will understand The physical location of a place can influence the economic development of a community.
Climate contributes to the development of a place or region and may cause changes in the physical environment.
Physical environment and climate can determine the way that people meet basic needs like food and shelter.
The geography of a place can impact the movement of goods, people, and ideas.
The geography of a place may pose physical barriers to movement.

This supplemental reading resource introduces students to the geography and demographics of the country of Morocco. An audio option is provided as well as a brief comprehension assessment.