# Grade 3: Social studies

A course roadmap (social-studies). Language: en. By @si. Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0. 0 of 11 concepts ready. In the app: https://ai.page/roadmap/co-ss-grade-3

Part of: [Colorado: Social studies](https://ai.page/roadmap/co-ss.md)

Goal: Colorado academic standards: Social studies, Grade 3

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

- [Financial Planning](https://ai.page/c/financial-planning/index.md): 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.

- [Roles in a Group](https://ai.page/c/roles-in-a-group/index.md): 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
- [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

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

- [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

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

- [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
- [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

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

- [Your Impact on Others](https://ai.page/c/your-impact-on-others/index.md): Reflect on how your behaviour lands on others — consider not just what you intended but what the actual impact was on the other person
- [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
- [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

## 6. Third Grade · Compare primary and secondary sources when explaining 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
- [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

## Health: 0 of 100

Of its 11 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):

- Financial Planning has no explanation yet
- Roles in a Group has no explanation yet
- Taxes & Public Services has no explanation yet
- Community Rights and Responsibilities has no explanation yet
- How the Economy Works has no explanation yet
- Global Trade has no explanation yet
- Your Impact on Others has no explanation yet
- Culture and Experience Shape Emotions has no explanation yet
- Understanding People in Their Own Time has no explanation yet
- Vocabulary: historical thinking has no explanation yet
- Checking Sources Against Each Other has no explanation yet

Credit: The structure of Colorado academic standards: Social studies (https://www.cde.state.co.us/cosocialstudies/cas-ss-p12-2022); 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.