How to learn Grade 3: Social studies
Pennsylvania academic standards: Social studies, Grade 3
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1. United States History
- 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
2. Historical Analysis and Skills Development
- 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
3. Rights and Responsibilities of Citizenship
- 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. Principles and Documents of Government
- Rules and agreements exist: 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
5. How Government Works
- 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
6. Income, Profit, and Wealth
- Banks & Saving: 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
- Earning Money: Ways that children and adults earn money; the connection between work, skills and pay; that harder or more skilled work often pays more
7. Markets and Economic Systems
- How the Economy Works: What an economy is; producers and consumers; supply and demand; why prices change; the basics of how markets work
- Advertising & Spending: How advertising tries to influence what we buy; being a critical consumer; understanding 'value for money'; the difference between emotional and rational spending
8. Scarcity and Choice
- Needs & Wants: 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
9. Interactions Between People and the Environment
- 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
10. Money and Economic Institutions
- What Money Is: 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
11. Microeconomics
- Costs & Revenue: It costs money to make things (costs/expenses); you earn money by selling them (revenue); if revenue is more than costs, that's profit; if costs are more, that's a loss
12. Fundamentals of Economics
- Global Trade: Why countries trade with each other; imports and exports; how goods travel around the world; that different countries use different currencies