Kalonikae Drenckhahn

RED 312-01 Global Studies in the Classroom

Curriculum Map 2016

Grade Level: 3
Foundations of
Social Studies
Central Focus

September

History: Explain
past events and
change over time
by constructing
chronological
narratives.
Citizenship and
Government:
Describe how the
United States is
based on

October

History: : Explain
past events and
change over time
by constructing
chronological
narratives.
Geography:
Describe how the
processes of
cooperation and
conflict among

November

History:
Understand the
process in which
multiple sources
and evidence is
analyzed to draw
conclusions about
the past.
Economy: Make
informed economic
choices by

December

History:
Understand the
process in which
multiple sources
and evidence is
analyzed to draw
conclusions about
the past.
Geography:
Understand how
geographic factors

January

History:
Understand the
process in which
multiple sources
and evidence is
analyzed to draw
conclusions about
the past.
Economy: Apply
economic concepts
and principles to

democratic values
and principles.
(liberty, individual
rights, justice
equality, the rule of
law, limited
government,
common good,
popular
sovereignty,
majority rule and
minority rights)

people influence
the division and
control of earths
surface

identifying goals,
interpreting and
applying data,
considering costs
and benefits, and
revising goals.

MN Standards

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Social Studies SubStrand

Historical Thinking
Skills

Historical Thinking
Skills

Historical Thinking
Skills

Skills Identified in
the Benchmark

Civic Values and

Reference different
time periods using
correct
terminology.

Human Systems

Create timelines of
different events in
three different time
scales-decades,
centuries and

Economic
Reasoning Skills

Examine historical
records to answer
basic questions
about times and
events in the past.

influence the
distribution,
functions, growth
and patterns of
cities and human
settlements.
Geography:
Describe how
processes of
cooperation and
conflict among
people influence
the division and
control of the
earths surface

planning,
budgeting,
spending, saving,
investing,
borrowing, and
insuring decisions
when handling
personal finances.
Geography: Use
geographic
representations to
acquire, process,
and report
information within
a spatial context.

Historical Thinking
Skills

Historical Thinking
Skills

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Human Systems

Compare and
contrast two
unique accounts of
an event.

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Personal Finance
Geospatial Skills

Compare and
contrast a variety
of ways that
different cultures
have expressed

Explain the
necessity for civil
discourse and the
principles of
majority rule and
minority rights.

Assessments

Write a short
narrative using
chronological
terminology

Determine class
rules

millennia.

Identify physical
and human
features that act as
boundaries or
dividers and give
example of
situations or
reasons why
people have made
or used boundaries
Draw a timeline

Participate and
write a response to
a mock classroom
division

Debate and vote on

MN Standards

February

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March

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Identify
consequences of
different economic
choices.

Create a poster
describing different
sources and
records
Make a simple
budget and explain
reasoning

April

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Identify landforms
and patterns in
population and
explain why
humans are
unevenly
distributed around
the world.

concepts of time
and space.

Role play a
situation where
there are two
different accounts
of the events

Oral presentation
as a group of a
unique calendar
system or visual
representation of
location and spatial
information (maps)

Identify physical
and human
features that act as
boundaries or
dividers

Use a map to
identify landforms
Label a map with
physical and
human features
that create a
boundary
May

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Use maps and

Draw a map of own

June

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Central Focus

History: Explain
how historical
events have
multiple causes
that can lead to
varied and
unintended
consequences.
Economy: Identify
how individuals
and businesses
interact and
exchange goods
and services in
different ways for
different reasons
and explain how
those interactions
affect the price and
quantity exchanged
of a good, service
or resource.

History: Explain
how problems in
the community,
state, nation, and
world are
addressed by
individuals acting
alone or
collectively.
Citizenship and
Government:
Explain how a
democratic
government
depends on
informed and
engaged citizens
with civic skills and
values to practice
discourse, vote,
apply inquiry, and
analyze skills and
take action to solve
problems and
shape public policy.

History:
Understand how
the emergence of
domestication and
agriculture
facilitated the
development of
complex societies
and caused farreaching social and
cultural effects.
Geography: Use
geographic
representations to
acquire, process,
and report
information within
a spatial context.

History: Describe
how the
development of
interregional
systems of
communication
and trade
facilitated new
forms of social
organization and
new belief systems
Citizenship and
Government:
Identify the specific
functions the US
government has
that are
determined by the
way power is
delegated and
controlled among
various bodies: the
three levels, and
three branches

History:
Understand how
hemispheric
networks
intensified as a
result of
innovations and the
development of
multi-ethnic
empires.
Economy:
Identify how
individuals and
businesses interact
and exchange
goods and services
in different ways
for different
reasons and
explain how those
interactions affect
the price and
quantity exchanged
of a good, service
or resource.

Social Studies SubStrand

Peoples, Cultures,
and Change Over
Time

Peoples, Cultures,
and Change Over
Time

World History

World History

World History

Microeconomic

Civic Skills

Geospatial Skills

Governmental
Institutions and
Political Processes

Microeconomic
Concepts

Skills Identified in
the Benchmark

Concepts

Identify and
explain inventions
that changed life at
that time, positive,
negative, or
unintended.

Explain that goods

Assessments

Explain that
consumers and
producers have
two roles-as sellers
and buyers
Research an
invention from the
past 100 years,
share with class
(cotton gin,
airplane, etc.)
Participate in a
mock village

Identify individuals
or groups that have
impacted world
history and explain
how they shaped
the world around
them.

Identify ways
people make a
difference as
individuals or
groups to address a
specific problem.

Research and
assigned individual
or group and give
an oral
presentation to
class

Write a short
narrative about one

Describe how the

Create and
interpret simple
maps of places in
the world and
incorporate the
TODALS map
basics, points, lines
and colored areas
to display spatial
information.

Label a map
showing areas of
domestication and
agriculture
Draw a map with
the elements of
TODALS

Identify methods of
communication
from three
different regions
during ancient
times
Explain the
significance of the
various services
provided by the
government and
how they are
funded through
taxes and fees

Compare and
contrast daily life
for people living in
ancient
civilizations.

Compare and
contrast different
methods of
communication

Compare and
contrast the
farming methods of
modern day Mexico
with those of the
Aztecs

Explain the three

Write a description
of a service the
government
provides and

Explain that goods

economy

community
member that
makes a difference
in the community

explain how we
benefit

Make a poster
explaining the
three branches and
levels of
government