MegaBundle: Regions, Economics, Government & More for 3rd grade Social Studies
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Everything you need for third grade social studies curriculum in one giant bundle! This mega bundle contains 10 complete units, to teach a complete year of social studies! Save BIG by buying them together! Check out the links to the individual products for more previews.
This Social Studies Mega-Bundle contains:
Five units for teaching about the regions of the United States:
→Regions of the United States: Northeast, Complete Unit (5 Regions)
→Regions of the United States: Southeast, Complete Unit (5 Regions)
→Regions of the United States: Midwest, Complete Unit (5 Regions)
→Regions of the United States: Southwest, Complete Unit (5 Regions)
→Regions of the United States: West, Complete Unit (5 Regions)
Each unit contains four separate files, for a total of twenty files in this collection. Each region includes a 6-page informational text packet that can be used as a "textbook chapter" when teaching about the region. While reading the complex text, your students will learn about the land, water, climate, products, natural resources, landmarks, and culture of the region. The informational text includes an Anticipation Guide with questions to be used as they read the text to guide their reading. Each region also includes a study guide to help them learn to label the states on a map, a 30 question quiz, and a fun "scrapbook" activity with a grading rubric. Study guides and tests now also include an optional page for the state capitals and the state abbreviations.
Three units for teaching about America’s neighbors:
→Canada: Our Neighbor to the North Complete Unit with print and digital options
→Mexico: Our Neighbor to the South Complete Unit with print and digital options
→The Caribbean: Our Island Neighbors Complete Unit with print and digital options
Each of these units has a 10-page informational text packet that can be used as a "textbook chapter" when teaching about that country. In the complex text, your students will learn about the land, water, climate, products, natural resources, landmarks, government, money, and culture. Also included is an Anticipation Guide is to be used as they read the packet to guide their reading, a 30 question quiz, and a fun "scrapbook" activity with a grading rubric. Each of these units also includes a digital version of the student text with the reading questions that the students can complete online using Google Slides. The unit test comes in a printable version and in a Google Forms version that is graded automatically. Links to download the digital versions can be found in the pdf for this product. Click on the links to download a copy of the digital files into your own Google Drive. You can use the printable versions, go completely paperless, or use a combination of both!
And two more units:
→Economics Unit & Lapbook Print and Digital Options
This includes a 10-page informational text. This complex text will provide your students with information about needs and wants, goods and services, barter, trade, scarcity, imports and exports, producers and consumers, the characteristics of money, opportunity cost and economic choices. Also, students will learn about natural, human, and capital resources, saving money, and earning and paying interest. They will compare the characteristics of currency from the United States, Canada, Mexico, and the Caribbean. The unit also includes a unit test and a study guide. There is a packet with an anticipation guide and questions to guide your students as they read each section of the informational packet. All answer keys are included. As your students read and learn about economics, they will complete 13 different foldable pieces to make a lapbook about economics. Lapbook pieces can also be used in a notebook. This unit also includes a digital version of the student text with the reading questions that the students can complete online using Google Slides. The unit test comes in a printable version and in a Google Forms version that is graded automatically. Links to download the digital versions can be found in the pdf for this product. Click on the links to download a copy of the digital files into your own Google Drive. You can use the printable versions, go completely paperless, or use a combination of both!
→Government Unit & Lapbook Print and Digital Options
This includes a 7-page informational text. This complex text will provide your students with information about the purpose of government, government services, the Constitution as the basis for our government, the three branches of government, the duties and responsibilities of each branch, qualifications for office, checks and balances, the balance of power, how our laws are made, local and state government, actions of citizens, and the meaning of the Preamble. The unit also includes a unit test and a study guide. There is a packet with an anticipation guide and questions to guide your students as they read each section of the informational packet. All answer keys are included. As your students read and learn about the government, they will complete 14 different foldable pieces to make a lapbook about our government. This unit also includes a digital version of the student text with the reading questions that the students can complete online using Google Slides. The unit test comes in a printable version and in a Google Forms version that is graded automatically. Links to download the digital versions can be found in the pdf for this product. Click on the links to download a copy of the digital files into your own Google Drive. You can use the printable versions, go completely paperless, or use a combination of both!
While these materials were written to correspond to Florida's Next Generation Sunshine State Standards for 3rd grade Social Studies when I couldn't find anything else appropriate for my students, these units are also perfect for 4th and 5th graders.
Florida Sunshine State Standards Addressed:
SS.3.G.2.1: Label the countries and commonwealths in North America (Canada, United States, Mexico) and in the Caribbean (Puerto Rico, Cuba, Bahamas, Dominican Republic, Haiti, Jamaica).
SS.3.G.2.2: Identify the five regions of the United States.
SS.3.G.2.3: Label the states in each of the five regions of the United States.
SS.3.G.2.4: Describe the physical features of the United States, Canada, Mexico, and the Caribbean.
SS.3.G.2.5: Identify natural and man-made landmarks in the United States, Canada, Mexico, and the Caribbean.
SS.3.G.3.1: Describe the climate and vegetation in the United States, Canada, Mexico, and the Caribbean.
SS.3.G.3.2: Describe the natural resources in the United States, Canada, Mexico, and the Caribbean.
SS.3.G.4.1: Explain how the environment influences settlement patterns in the United States, Canada, Mexico, and the Caribbean.
SS.3.G.4.2: Identify the cultures that have settled the United States, Canada, Mexico, and the Caribbean.
SS.3.E.1.4: Distinguish between currencies used in the United States, Canada, Mexico, and the Caribbean.
SS.3.C.1.1: Explain the purpose and need for government
SS.3.C.1.2: Describe how government gains its power from the people.
SS.3.C.1.3: Explain how government was established through a written Constitution.
SS.3.C.2.1: Identify group and individual actions of citizens that demonstrate civility, cooperations, volunteerism, and other civic virtues.
SS.3.C.3.1: Identify the levels of government (local, state, federal)
SS.3.C.3.2: Describe how government is organized at the local level.
SS.3.C.3.3: Recognize that every state has a state constitution.
SS.3.C.3.4: Recognize that the Constitution of the United States is the supreme law of the land.
SS.3.E.1.1 : Give examples of how scarcity results in trade.
SS.3.E.1.2 : List the characteristics of money. (portable, divisible, recognizable, durable)
SS.3.E.1.3 : Recognize that buyers and sellers interact to exchange goods and services through the use of trade or money.
SS.3.E.1.4 : Distinguish between currencies used in the United States, Canada, Mexico, and the Caribbean.
SS.2.E.1.1 : Recognize that people make choices because of limited resources.
SS.2.E.1.2 : Recognize that people supply goods and services based on consumer demands.
SS.2.E.1.3 : Recognize that the United States trades with other nations to exchange goods and services.
SS.2.E.1.4 : Explain the personal benefits and costs involved in saving and spending.
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