Resources to be Purchased for Third Grade Social Studies Units

Unit / Needed Resources / Suggested Resources
Digging Into the Past / Michigan cookie cutters
One or more of the following books:
*Nishnawbe: A Story of Indians in Michigan by Lynne Deur
*The Ojibwa by Anne M. Todd
*Sea to Shining Sea: Michigan by Dennis Brindell Fradin
*Michigan Native Americans: A Kid’s Look at Our States Chiefs, Tribes, Reservations, Powwows, Lore and More, from Past to Present by Carole Marsh
*Ottawa and Chippewa Indians of Michigan 1870-1909 by Raymond C. Lantz
*The Legend of Michigan by Trinka Hakes Noble
*American Indian Reference and Resource Books for Children and Young Adults by Barbara J. Kuipers
*The Ojibwa Indians (Native People) by Bill Lund
*Detroit – Huron Tribe by Vernon Kienietz
*Michigan Studies Weekly (weekly newspaper) / The Woodland Indians of the Western Great Lakes by Robert E. Ritzenthaler
Woodland Indians (Illustrated Living History Series) by C. Keith Wilbur
Eastern Woodland Indians (Native Americans) by Mir Tamim Ansary
Michigan’s Changing Inhabitants / The Legend of Sleeping Bear by Kathy-Jo Wargin
More items will likely be added to this list when all the lessons for this unit are complete. / If You Traveled West in a Covered Wagon by Ellen Levine
Economic Development / Something Special for Me by Vera Williams

Uncle Jed’s Barbershop by Margaret King Mitchell

Click, Clack, Moo: Cows that Type by Doreen Cronin
Michigan’s Citizens and Government / No, David! By David Shannon or Officer Buckle and Gloria by Peggy Rathmann
Taxes, Taxes! Where the Money Goes by Nancy Loewen or Paying Taxes by Sarah De Capua / The True Books: Serving on a Jury by Sarah De Capua
Other stories indicating point of view such as:
Country Mouse, City Mouse by Jan Brett
The True Story of the Three Little Pigs Told by A. Wolfe
LaRue book series by Mark Teague
Tall Tails series books by Dona Smith
Large wall map of the Northwest Territory