How to learn Grade 3: Social studies
Connecticut academic standards: Social studies, Grade 3
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1. Cultural Communities in Connecticut Present and Past
- 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. State Constitution and Government
- 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. Communicate Conclusions and Take Informed Action
- Stop, Think, Then Choose: Use a simple decision-making process when faced with a choice — stopping to think, identifying the options, considering the consequences of each option, and then choosing — rather than acting impulsively
- Vocabulary: making decisions and keeping safe: 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
4. Develop Questions and Plan Inquiries
- Questioning Historical Sources: Before trusting a historical source, ask: who made this, when, and why? — the answers shape how much weight the source should carry