# Grade 3: Social studies A course roadmap (social-studies). Language: en. By @si. Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0. 0 of 21 concepts ready. In the app: https://ai.page/roadmap/ak-ss-grade-3 Part of: [Alaska: Social studies](https://ai.page/roadmap/ak-ss.md) Goal: Alaska academic standards: Social studies, Grade 3 ## 1. Communicate and Critique Conclusions - [Resolving Disagreements with Friends](https://ai.page/c/resolving-disagreements-with-friends/index.md): Resolve simple disagreements with peers by talking it through — explaining how they feel, listening to the other person's side, and finding a compromise or solution that both can accept ## 2. Evaluate Sources and Evidence - [Questioning Historical Sources](https://ai.page/c/questioning-historical-sources/index.md): Before trusting a historical source, ask: who made this, when, and why? — the answers shape how much weight the source should carry - [Checking Sources Against Each Other](https://ai.page/c/checking-sources-against-each-other/index.md): Corroborate: check whether multiple sources agree on the same facts — and investigate why they might not ## 3. Human‐Environment Interaction: Place, Regions, and Culture · Describe how environmental and cultural characteristics influence population distribution in specific places or regions. - [Culture and Experience Shape Emotions](https://ai.page/c/culture-and-experience-shape-emotions/index.md): Understand that emotional responses are shaped by personal experiences, culture, and context — the same situation triggers different emotions in different people because of their backgrounds and past experiences ## 4. Rights, Roles, and Responsibilities of Citizens · Explain, compare, and participate in various rights, roles, and responsibilities of citizens. - [Community Rights and Responsibilities](https://ai.page/c/community-rights-and-responsibilities/index.md): Understand their rights and responsibilities as a member of a community — that everyone has a right to be treated with respect and to feel safe, and that with rights come responsibilities to treat others the same way ## 5. Processes, Rules, and Laws · Explain how policies are developed to address public problems. - [Actions and Their Consequences](https://ai.page/c/actions-and-their-consequences/index.md): Understand that actions have consequences — that what you choose to do affects both yourself and other people — and begin to think about what might happen before they act ## 6. Processes, Rules, and Laws · Explain how rules and laws change society and how people change rules and laws. - [Rules and agreements exist](https://ai.page/c/rules-and-agreements-exist/index.md): Understand why rules and agreements exist — that they help keep people safe, make things fair, and help groups work well together — and follow agreed rules willingly rather than only when being watched ## 7. Processes, Rules, and Laws · Compare procedures for making decisions in a variety of settings, including classroom, school, government, and/or society. - [Vocabulary: making decisions and keeping safe](https://ai.page/c/vocabulary-making-decisions-and-keeping-safe/index.md): Know and use the vocabulary of making decisions and keeping safe — choice, consequence, rule, safe, fair, honest, trusted adult, and right and wrong — and understand that naming these ideas clearly helps make better choices ## 8. Participation and Deliberation · Apply civic virtues and democratic principles in school settings. - [Vocabulary: ethics and citizenship](https://ai.page/c/vocabulary-ethics-and-citizenship/index.md): Know and use the vocabulary of ethics and citizenship — bullying, cyberbullying, bystander, upstander, peer pressure, digital citizenship, rights, responsibility, and ethical — and understand the distinctions between these closely related terms ## 9. Civic and Political Institutions and Systems · Describe ways in which people benefit from and are challenged by working together, including through government, workplaces, voluntary organizations, and - [Vocabulary: working with others](https://ai.page/c/vocabulary-working-with-others/index.md): Know and use the vocabulary of working with others — cooperate, share, take turns, team, listen, agree, disagree respectfully, and include — and understand that these words describe habits that friendships and group work depend on ## 10. The Global Economy · Explain the effects of increasing economic interdependence on different groups within participating nations. - [Global Trade](https://ai.page/c/global-trade/index.md): Why countries trade with each other; imports and exports; how goods travel around the world; that different countries use different currencies ## 11. The National Economy · Explain the ways in which the government pays for the goods and services it provides. - [Taxes & Public Services](https://ai.page/c/taxes-and-public-services/index.md): What taxes are and why people pay them; how taxes fund schools, hospitals, roads, and emergency services; that governments decide how to spend tax money ## 12. The National Economy · Explain the meaning of inflation, deflation, and unemployment. - [How the Economy Works](https://ai.page/c/how-the-economy-works/index.md): What an economy is; producers and consumers; supply and demand; why prices change; the basics of how markets work ## 13. The National Economy · Explain what interest rates are. - [Banks & Saving](https://ai.page/c/banks-and-saving/index.md): What banks do and why people use them; bank accounts as safe places for money; that savings in a bank can earn interest; children's savings accounts - [Borrowing & Debt](https://ai.page/c/borrowing-and-debt/index.md): What borrowing money means; that loans must be repaid with interest; what credit is; why too much debt can be risky; responsible borrowing ## 14. Decision‐Making and Personal Finance · Identify positive and negative incentives that influence the decisions people make. - [Emotions and Decision-Making](https://ai.page/c/emotions-and-decision-making/index.md): Understand how emotions influence thinking and decision-making — that strong feelings can cloud judgement, that we often make different choices when calm versus when upset, and that recognising this gives us more control ## 15. Decision‐Making and Personal Finance · Compare the benefits and costs of individual choices. - [Needs & Wants](https://ai.page/c/needs-and-wants/index.md): The difference between things we need (food, shelter, clothing) and things we want (toys, treats); that we sometimes have to choose because money is limited ## 16. Economic Systems, Models, and Markets · Explain the role of money in making exchange easier. - [What Money Is](https://ai.page/c/what-money-is/index.md): What money is and why we use it; that money is exchanged for goods and services; brief history from barter to coins to digital payments ## 17. Economic Systems, Models, and Markets · Explain why individuals and businesses specialize and trade. - [Teamwork in Business](https://ai.page/c/teamwork-in-business/index.md): Most businesses need more than one person; working together, dividing tasks, and using different people's strengths; the value of teamwork in business ## 18. Historical Thinking · Use evidence to develop a claim about the past. - [Vocabulary: historical thinking](https://ai.page/c/vocabulary-historical-thinking/index.md): Know and use the vocabulary of historical thinking — source, evidence, primary source, secondary source, artefact, chronology, chronological order, BC/BCE, AD/CE, century, decade, era, period, timeline, excavation, archaeologist, interpretation, corroborate, bias, perspective — and apply these terms when discussing how we know about the past and how reliable our knowledge is ## 19. Perspectives · Explain why individuals and groups during the same historical period differed in their perspectives. - [Understanding People in Their Own Time](https://ai.page/c/understanding-people-in-their-own-time/index.md): Understand that people in the past saw the world very differently from us — judge their actions by the context they lived in, not only by today's values ## Health: 0 of 100 Of its 21 own concepts: 0 have an explanation, 0 have practice, 0 have a measurement question, 0 have a checked version. Findings (each is a task for anyone's AI): - Resolving Disagreements with Friends has no explanation yet - Questioning Historical Sources comes before Vocabulary: historical thinking, which it needs - Questioning Historical Sources has no explanation yet - Checking Sources Against Each Other comes before Vocabulary: historical thinking, which it needs - Checking Sources Against Each Other has no explanation yet - Culture and Experience Shape Emotions has no explanation yet - Community Rights and Responsibilities comes before Vocabulary: ethics and citizenship, which it needs - Community Rights and Responsibilities comes before Rules and agreements exist, which it needs - Community Rights and Responsibilities has no explanation yet - Actions and Their Consequences comes before Vocabulary: making decisions and keeping safe, which it needs - Actions and Their Consequences has no explanation yet - Rules and agreements exist comes before Vocabulary: making decisions and keeping safe, which it needs - Rules and agreements exist has no explanation yet - Vocabulary: making decisions and keeping safe has no explanation yet - Vocabulary: ethics and citizenship has no explanation yet - Vocabulary: working with others has no explanation yet - Global Trade comes before How the Economy Works, which it needs - Global Trade has no explanation yet - Taxes & Public Services has no explanation yet - How the Economy Works has no explanation yet - Banks & Saving has no explanation yet - Borrowing & Debt has no explanation yet - Emotions and Decision-Making has no explanation yet - Needs & Wants comes before What Money Is, which it needs - Needs & Wants has no explanation yet - What Money Is has no explanation yet - Teamwork in Business has no explanation yet - Vocabulary: historical thinking has no explanation yet - Understanding People in Their Own Time has no explanation yet Credit: The structure of Alaska academic standards: Social studies (https://education.alaska.gov/akstandards/Adopted-AK-SS-Standards-2024.pdf); concepts from the Marble Skill Taxonomy (v1), © Generative Spark, Inc. (withmarble.com), text CC BY-SA 4.0, database ODbL 1.0: https://github.com/withmarbleapp/os-taxonomy, mapped to its standards by Marble.