ISTE Standards - 3rd Grade Content Integration

Third Grade Science & Social Studies Content Integration

Unit 1: Living and Learning

Unit Question: Which skills help make our way in the world?

Unit 2: Smart Solutions

Unit Question: What are smart ways that problems are solved?

Science: Standard 2: Students will understand that organisms depend on living and nonliving things within their environment.
Social Studies: Standard 1: Students will understand how geography influences community location and development.
Obj. 1: Determine the relationships between human settlement and geography.

Unit 3: People and Nature

Science: Standard 5: Students will understand that the sun is the main source of heat and light for things living on Earth. They will also understand that the motion of rubbing objects together may produce heat.

Social Studies: Standard 1: Students will understand how geography influences community location and development.
Obj. 2: Describe how various communities have adapted to existing environments and how other communities have modified the environment.
Obj. 3: Analyze ways cultures use, maintain, and preserve the physical environment.

Unit 4: One of a Kind

Unit Question: What does it mean to be unique?

Science: Standard 1: Students will understand that the shape of Earth and the moon are spherical and that Earth rotates on its axis to produce the appearance of the sun and moon moving through the sky.

Social Studies: Standard 2: Students will understand cultural factors that shape a community.

Unit 5: Cultures

Unit Question: What happens when two ways of life come together?

Science: Standard 4: Students will understand that objects near Earth are pulled toward Earth by gravity.

Social Studies: Standard 3: Students will understand the
principles of civic responsibility in classroom, community, and country.
Obj. 1 (pledge, flag) (voting, jury, taxpaying) Students will understand the principles of civic responsibility in the classroom, community and country.

Unit 6: Freedom

Unit Question: What does freedom mean?

Science: Standard 3: Students will understand the relationship between the force applied to an object and resulting motion of the object.

Social Studies: Standard 3: Students will understand the principles of civic responsibility in classroom, community, and country.
Obj. 2: Identify ways community needs are met by government.
Obj. 3: Apply principles of civic responsibility.

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