Social Studies - 3rd Grade (2024)
Lesson Plans

Strand 2: Your Community

Students analyze the communities in which they live, including geography, relative size, and interdependent relationships.

Compelling Questions:

• What are some of the different communities to which you belong?
• What is your culture?
• What do communities need to thrive?
• What are some unique aspects of your community?
• How has your community changed or remained the same with the passage of time and why?

Standard 3.2.1

Locate their community, city or town, state, country, and continent on print and digital maps of the earth, and contrast their sizes and the relationships in scale.

• Geography and Settlement
  This is a lesson that uses collaboration and technology to discuss and view earth's geography and human settlements and how the landforms support life on earth. Cover image source:https://www.freeimages.com/photo/apple-1327446
• Musically Mapping the Continents and Oceans
  In this BYU arts integraion lesson plan, students will name and locate the seven continents and five oceans on a map. They will respond to rhythms played on a drum.

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