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3rd grade social studies unit plans for Microsoft Word
Stock Market Unit Plan
Two week unit!
Day 1-
Have a discussion on how people can make their money grow. Introduce vocab for unit. Hand out Stock Market passage and answer questions about reading.
Day 2- 3
Vocab matching sheet quiz. Discuss dangers of investing in stocks. Hand out Danger in Stocks handout and answer questions.
Discuss stock symbols. Have students search symbols for 4 teacher chosen stocks and check progress of the stocks together across the week. Tell students they have $1000 to invest. They will
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3rd - 10th
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Road Trip Adventure PROJECT BASED LEARNING for GATE and 3rd - 8th Grades
Come along on a fun project-based adventure as students practice different forms of writing, geography skills, computer and internet technology skills, engineering and design skills, math skills, public speaking, creativity, and art.
Here is your Gold Medal Standard project based learning unit ready to go. Because this project-based unit relies heavily on student creativity and invention, the key knowledge, understanding, and success skills can be scaffolded across many grade levels. This un
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3rd - 8th
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Also included in: SIMULATIONS Real-World Projects GATE Bundle Gifted
Learning Targets with success criteria - 3rd grade Social Studies standards
This resource is based on the SOCIAL STUDIES Georgia Standards of Excellence for third grade. Each learning target has a "Learning Intention" otherwise known as learning target or objective, and then clear achievable success criteria for the learning intention. These learning intentions and success criteria will act as rubrics for EVERY third grade Georgia standard. This particular package includes the SOCIAL STUDIES standards only. These learning targets and success criteria will also help
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3rd
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Entrepreneur Project- DIY: Open for Business
Entrepreneur Project- DIY (Do It Yourself) Open for Business: is multi-step, long term economics project for students of all abilities and varied grade levels to learn how to form a small business and become young entrepreneurs.
Students of all ages are very aware of the hard economic times that many are experiencing in the country, in their neighborhoods and even in their own homes.
This project allows students to see that with creativity, ingenuity, organization, hard work, dedication, m
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2nd - 12th
Locomotive by Brian Floca - Primary GATE Unit with Caldecott STEAM!
Another amazing Caldecott book and another load of opportunities across the curriculum for our primary GATE kids: hands-on and participatory activities, critical thinking, creativity, art and graphic design, and always best practices in gifted education. I’ve used this unit with 2nd graders, and it will definitely stretch to 3rd grade GATE.
You get 35+ pages of instructions, critical thinking questions and activities, and ready-to-print student activity sheets—assuredly more than you’ll ever
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2nd - 4th
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Inventions and Inventors: How Technology Changes Over Time
This is an OUTSTANDING unit on inventions and inventors. It is a 24+ page reosurce with detailed lesson plans, technology integration links, and student worksheets and handouts (including a parent letter and guidelines on how to set up the end of unit Invention Convention). Download the preview file to see a sample of both the lesson plans and some student worksheets. It is scheduled to last for 8-10 weeks. It is adaptable from 2nd-5th grade with the best age range being in 3rd or 4th. The uni
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2nd - 5th
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Long Range Plans - Grade 3 - French Imm. - All Subjects - Ontario Curriculum
This Long Range Plan is for teachers of gr.3 French Immersion in Ontario.
You can edit the file and make it your own!
- Subjects include: French Immersion & Literacy, Math, Social Studies, Art, Drama and Dance.
- Includes long term objectives and all of the overall expectations of the curriculum.
- Divided into 3 terms.
- Forms of Writing.
- Considerations for exceptional students.
- Ideas for Field Trips.
- Calendar of monthly events.
- Evaluations methods to consideration.
- Resources to
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3rd
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Manitoba Report Card Comments: Grade 3 Social (full paragraph copy/paste)
You will find a high, medium and low report card comment for all Grade 3 Social Studies Clusters/Outcomes. You will also see a high, medium and low comment for each of the the Social Studies Skills (straight from curriculum). Headings include: Skills for Active Democratic Citizenship; Skills for Managing Information & Ideas; Critical and Creative Thinking Skills and Communication Skills.These are easy to use and ready to copy & paste into your reports. Of course you will adjust the comme
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3rd
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"Everything Iroquois!" Common Core ELA and 4th Grade Social Studies
Here it is!
This is over 50 pages of everything Iroquois for fourth grade!!!!!
Includes:
1. A cover page to create a resource booklet
2. An intro letter to the students
3. New York map skills- includes 4 maps!
4. Essential Questions
5. vocabulary
6. Iroquois Creation Story with activities
7. The 8 Strands of Social Studies activities
8. Activities teaching culture
9. The 3 Sisters activity
10. An engaging longhouse project with rubric
11. graphic organizers
12. The Peach Pit Game
13. Review A
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3rd - 4th
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The World Where I Live...
This is a jam-packed, 40 page unit full of multi-sensory and multi-grade-level activities all centering on the relationships between the following concepts: city/town/village, county, state, country, continent, and community helpers. The following mathematical concepts are also explored: range, median, mode, and average (mathematical mean).
The following activities are included in this unit: Key vocabulary exercise, coloring Venn diagram activity, "Greater Than, Less Than" activity page, "My
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K - 8th
Social Studies Unit Lesson Plan - American Revolution
This unit contains 7 lessons covering the basics of the American Revolution. The lessons were written for special needs students with visual impairments, but can be easily modified or adapted for a wide variety of students (special needs or regular ed elementary students).
Topics cover: causes of the war, Boston Tea Party, Paul Revere, George Washington, Leaders of the Revolution, and the Declaration of Independence. There are extra activities that go over life in colonial times – music, art
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3rd - 5th
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Catholic Social Teaching Unit Plan
Don't re-invent the wheel! Find what you need to plan a successful Catholic Social Teaching Unit. Each cover page will tell you how to implement the resources, and you can look to this (EDITABLE) Unit Plan for guidance on how to structure your students’ learning! Includes an engaging, differentiated, and fun 3 day editable lesson plan, so you can tweak it to your own students and change the times, groups, etc.! After the lesson layout, you will find the editable formal assessment, CST Discussion
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3rd - 12th
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Also included in: Catholic Social Teaching Unit BUNDLE!
Grade 3 Social Studies (Revised 2023) Lesson Plans A-B (34 Lesson Plans)
Key Highlights:34 Lesson Plans: A meticulously structured curriculum spanning expectations A1.1 to B3.7.Crystal-Clear Learning Objectives: Well-defined aims for every single lesson.Diverse and Engaging Activities: Group endeavours, stimulating discussions, hands-on projects, and varied assessments.Comprehensive Assessment Strategies: Formative and summative assessments are meticulously integrated.Ready-to-Use Rubrics and Checklists: Facilitating smooth evaluation procedures.Embrace of Indigenous
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3rd
Ontario Report Card Comments: Grade 3 Social (full paragraph - 2023 curriculum)
You will find a high, medium and low report card comment for all Grade 3 Social Studies Outcomes/Units for the new curriculum (2023).Please see the preview and adapt as you see fit!
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3rd
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Brownie Business: Economics Unit
This editable, 80-page economics unit supports many 3-5 Common Core State Standards. This project can also be used with other grade levels and for supplemental programs. All the important materials needed to help students start and run a brownie-baking business are included. This packet contains economics vocabulary words and definitions, handouts/worksheets for over 12 lessons, a project calendar, sample marketing and communication materials, and many helpful templates.*Proceeds from this pr
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3rd - 6th
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American Symbols Printable Book
This printable book can be used during your unit on American Symbols. The students will learn about 5 important American Symbols, and will get to fill out the book to show what they have learned. Each symbol studied includes a Marzano Learning Strategy.
Grades:
PreK - 5th
Complete Unit Plan- grade 4 Canada's Provinces and Territories
An interactive and engaging complete unit plan for grade 4. Many cross-curricular connections so it becomes easy to incorporate language, art, math, phys ed, science, etc. into your social studies lessons. This is complete with 13 lessons that will span over about 2 months of learning. The final lesson will aid as a complete unit assessment through the interactive project that is provided.
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3rd - 5th
Mystery Island Project Instructions - Landforms
Imagine you discovered a new island no one ever explored before. It does not exist on any map! You can name this island whatever you want and make its first official map or model.
Use These set of Instructions for a Project Assignment with your LANDFORM Unit. I used this for my second grade class. It requires them to create an island that they discovered. They must name it according to its shape. They can get very creative with this. I have made an example of a final project: "Shark Island" in
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Grades:
K - 5th
Saskatchewan Report Card Comments: Grade 3 Social (full paragraph copy/paste)
You will find a high, medium and low report card comment for all Grade 3 Social Studies Units.Adapt as you see fit!
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3rd
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Maps Unit Plan
In this five day mapping unit, I have included all the necessary instructional materials. The unit includes: rational, pre-assessments, objectives, material listings, engagement, focus activities, worksheets, and assessments. The document contains twenty-four pages of meaningful instructional materials. I have aligned the unit to meet the Ohio Academic Social Studies Content Standards (Grade 3), however, all states can align the unit to meet their needs. The unit contains objectives to meet
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2nd - 4th
Cultural Identity Inquiry Bundle - Social Studies - Planner - IB PYP
This bundle is designed to help students develop cultural empathy by learning more about their own culture and sharing this with others. It includes the following editable resources: a 6-7 week inquiry plan, a family values tally chart and two poetry writing lessons. The bonus file is a cultural interview chart. All are easily adapted to suit your own class/school.The 6-7 week inquiry unit includes: transdisciplinary theme, central idea, lines of inquiry, key concepts and questionsapproaches to
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2nd - 5th, Staff
RULES, LAWS & CITIZENSHIP Unit Plan - Social Studies - Grade (3)
Rules, Laws & Citizenship Unit Plan - (45) pages
(5) Detailed Lesson Plans:
- Rules
- Laws
- Rights of Citizens
- Responsibilities of Citizens
- Character Traits of a Good Citizen
All Lesson Plans Include:
- Standards
- Student Objectives
- Levels of Learning
- Long Range Goal & Purpose
- Lesson Procedures
- Integration of Subjects &/or Arts
- Over (15) Resources, Handouts & Activities
- Unit Summative Assessment
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3rd
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Shh! We're Writing the Constitution Unit
Includes:
1. Vocabulary
2. Vocabulary Practice Activity
3. Vocabulary Quiz
4. Book Scavenger Hunt (with page numbers)
5. Foldable activity (with pictures)
6. Mini projects
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2nd - 8th
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Georgia Cherokee & Creek Indians Unit
This is a ten day unit that gives you all of the information and research you need to know to teach the unit. It gives you day by day instruction for 10 days and then the 11 and 12 day are review of the entire unit. This Unit is based on the Georgia Cherokee and Creek Indians. (All research and information is included in the unit.) Please message me for other products that go with this unit. I will reduce price for Unit and PowerPoints if you want all.
This work is licensed under a Creative Com
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Grades:
2nd - 5th
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