This parent guide supports parents in helping their child at home with the 3rd grade Social Studies content.
- Subject:
- Social Studies
- Material Type:
- Reference Material
- Vocabulary
- Author:
- Kelly Rawlston
- Letoria Lewis
- Date Added:
- 02/13/2023
This parent guide supports parents in helping their child at home with the 3rd grade Social Studies content.
This resource accompanies our Rethink 3rd Grade Science course. It includes ideas for use, ways to support exceptional children, ways to extend learning, digital resources and tools, tips for supporting English Language Learners and students with visual and hearing impairments. There are also ideas for offline learning.
Containing more than 50 articles from the award-winning Tar Heel Junior Historian magazine and over 40 lesson plans, this multidisciplinary Educator Notebook will enrich your exploration of North Carolina and American history with diverse perspectives. This resource's link takes you to a very short form that gives you free downloadable access to the complete PDF book.
In this lesson, students explore the definition of a hero (Amelia Earhart) and use the interactive Venn diagram to identify the most common characteristics of a hero. Information and photographs concerning Amelia Earhart's story are provided in this link.
Students can learn about Camillo Artom who was a famous scientist which fled Mussolini's Italy and immigrated to North Carolina. He taught at Wake Forest University, researching fats in the body.
Students will learn about the life of Herman Baity. Baity, a native of Iredell County, was an internationally known sanitary engineer. He was a well known teacher at UNC-Chapel Hill and helped develop sanitary protocols across the world.
Students can learn about Caleb Bradham who was the creator of Pepsi.
Students can learn about the accomplishments of Clement Brimley. Clement was a world famous ornothologist who also helped found the North Carolina Academy of Science.
Students can learn about Herbert Brimley who was the first curator of the North Carolina Museum of . He was also a scientist who contributed a great deal to the state.
Students can learn about Carrie Broughton. She was the first women to head an agency in the State of North Carolina and she helped to organize the State Library system and successfully categorize the records so people could easily search them.
Students can learn about John Simpson Cairns who was a famous natural historian. Cairns lived in the late 19th Century and explored the Mountains of North Carolina. Many of his items which he collected were moved into a variety of museums across the state after his death.
Students develop an understanding of how good citizens acting alone or working together can improve the community and help other people.
In this lesson, students learn about people, important events, and natural disasters that have contributed most to influencing change in our communities.
Focus is on Benjamin Banneker, Pierre Charles La'Enfant, Benjamin Franklin, Henry Ford, Christopher Columbus and Daniel Boone. They also study local people who have changed the local community. Students consider which changes are still having the most influence in the community today.
Students can learn about Earl Alexander Crump who helped establish the state highway system. He was born in Lumberton and was a prominent engineer.
Students will learn the characteristics of tall tales, reflect on a historical moment, and discover why David Crockett and others like him became important figures in American frontier history.
In this lesson, students summarize biographies of leaders, including Abraham Lincoln, Harriet Tubman, Sojourner Truth, Rosa Parks, Frederick Douglass, Ida B. Wells, Lydia Maria Child, William Lloyd Garrison, Claudette Colvin, and Martin Luther King, Jr.
Fort Dobbs has created a series of short videos designed to teach students about the settlement of the Northwest Carolina backcountry, the lives of the Native Americans living in and near the region of Fort Dobbs, the life of a North Carolina Provincial Soldier, and North Carolina's role during the French and Indian War. The videos are designed for teachers to use them separately to fit into their own lessons or can be grouped together by theme.
Students learn about the Declaration of Independence and about the term “consent of the governed” as well a
its relationship to the Declaration of Independence and the United States Constitution. Students also learn about several Founding Fathers, including Benjamin Franklin, and their contributions to communities that have influenced history.
Students learn about the Declaration of Independence and the term "consent of the governed" as well as its relationship to the Declaration of Independence and the United States Constitution. Students also learn about several Founding Fathers, including Benjamin Franklin, and their contributions to communities that have influenced history.
In this resource students will learn about Frederick Law Olmstead. He was considered the number one landscape architect during the 19th century. He won a design contest and created the famous New York City Central Park. He also assisted in the development of Yosemite National Park and Niagara Falls.