How to learn Grade 3: Social studies

Wyoming academic standards: Social studies, Grade 3

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1. Technology, Literacy, and Global Connections: Students use technology and literacy skills to access, synthesize, and evaluate information to communicate and apply social studies knowledge to global si

1. Global Trade: Why countries trade with each other; imports and exports; how goods travel around the world; that different countries use different currencies

2. People, Places, and Environments: Students apply their knowledge of the geographic themes (location, place, movement, region, and human/environment interactions) and skills to demonstrate an understan

1. The world contains many cultures, traditions: Understand that the world contains many cultures, traditions, and belief systems, and that learning about others' perspectives enriches our own understanding — developing genuine curiosity about and respect for cultural diversity

3. Time, Continuity, and Change: Students analyze events, people, problems, and ideas within their historical contexts.

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. 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

4. Production, Distribution, and Consumption: Students describe the influence of economic factors on societies and make decisions based on economic principles.

1. How the Economy Works: What an economy is; producers and consumers; supply and demand; why prices change; the basics of how markets work

5. Citizenship, Government, and Democracy: Students analyze how people create and change structures of power, authority, and governance to understand the continuing evolution of governments and to demons

1. Vocabulary: ethics and citizenship: 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