How to learn Grade 3: Social studies

Colorado academic standards: Social studies, Grade 3

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1. Third Grade · Create a plan to meet a financial goal.

1. Financial Planning: Setting longer-term financial goals; planning and prioritising spending; how saving regularly adds up over time; the value of thinking ahead with money

2. Third Grade · Describe the origins, structures, and functions of local government.

1. Roles in a Group: Understand different roles people play in groups — leader, supporter, mediator, idea-generator — and recognise that effective groups need a mix of roles, not everyone trying to be the leader
2. Taxes & Public Services: 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

3. Third Grade · Respect the views and rights of others.

1. Community Rights and Responsibilities: 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

4. Third Grade · Explain how producers and consumers exchange goods and services in different ways.

1. How the Economy Works: What an economy is; producers and consumers; supply and demand; why prices change; the basics of how markets work
2. Global Trade: Why countries trade with each other; imports and exports; how goods travel around the world; that different countries use different currencies

5. Third Grade · Identify how people in the past influence the development and interaction of different communities or regions.

1. Your Impact on Others: Reflect on how your behaviour lands on others — consider not just what you intended but what the actual impact was on the other person
2. Culture and Experience Shape Emotions: 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
3. Understanding People in Their Own Time: 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

6. Third Grade · Compare primary and secondary sources when explaining the past.

1. Vocabulary: historical thinking: 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
2. Checking Sources Against Each Other: Corroborate: check whether multiple sources agree on the same facts — and investigate why they might not