Unit 2 History/ Movement & People

Subject:3rd grade Social Studies

Time Frame:3-4 weeks

Big Idea Questions:How do people who settle together geographically make their community unique?

PERFORMANCE INDICATORS

Investigate and plot the history of Idaho Fall’s Communityusing the Internet andthetimeline. Students will research information about Idaho Falls (using the Internet or other resources) then plot their information on the timeline provided in the website link.(3.SS.1.1.2 3.LA.1.2.3, 3.LA.2.1.3, 3.LA.2.2.3, 3.LA.3.1.3)

Sharea personal posterof one grandparent’s (or another relative’s) history.(i.e. name, birth date, place of birth, if an immigrant when did he/she came to the United States.)Students will share the poster and information in small groups. (3.SS.1.2.1,3.LA.2.1.3, 3.LA.3.1.3)

Using the graphic organizer(front, back)(provided in Materials Packet) identify and describewhy current voluntary and involuntary migration and immigration occur. (3.SS.1.2.2 and 3.SS.1.2.3, 3.LA.3.1.3,3.LA.1.2.3, 3.LA.2.1.3, 3.LA.2.2.1.)

Using the Pyramid Foldable(provided in the Materials Packet) identify and analyze past and presentgeographic features of Idaho Falls that influenced the settlement pattern. (3.SS.2.3.1, 3.SS.2.3.2, 3.LA.3.1.3, 3.LA.1.2.3, 3.LA.2.2.1

Compare and Contrast, city/suburb, town and urban/rural areas of Idaho Fallsusing the graphic organizer(front, back) (provided in the Materials Packet). (3.SS.2.3.3,3.LA.1.2.3,3.LA.2.1.3,3.LA.2.2.1)

MATERIALS

Unit 2Smart Solutions(Scott Foresman)

  • Leveled Readers of “William’s House”

(Colonial New England, The Colonial Adventure, Houses Past and Present)

Unit 3 People and Nature (Scott Foresman)

  • Leveled Readers of “The Gardner”

(Niky’s Meadow)

  • Leveled Readers of “Me and Uncle Romie”

(A Walk Around the City, Bobby’s New Apartment, Let’s Go Have Fun)

Unit 5 Lesson 21 Pioneer Life(Journeys)

  • “Sarah, Plain and Tall” pgs. 207-221

Leveled Readers for “Sarah, Plain and Tall”

(Lost!, Race Against Time, An Unwelcome Visitor)

Unit 2 “Communities Change” (Macmillan Unit 1 pgs.4-45; Unit 2 pgs.52-59 and pgs.70-93; Unit 3pgs.100-105)

  • Unit 1.1 pgs.4-9, Unit 1.2 pgs.12-17, Unit 1.3 pgs. 18-25, 1.4 pgs. 28-35, Unit 1.5 pgs. 36-45, Unit 2.1 pgs. 52-54, Unit 2.3 pgs.70-76, Unit 2.4pgs. 78-84, Unit 2.5 pg 86-92, Unit 3.1 pgs. 100-105
  • Leveled Readers:

The Story of Granville T. Woods

The Boston Tea Party

3x5 cards and butcher paper for Motivation Activity

Vocabulary Unit 2(provided in Materials Packet)

Vocabulary Unit 2 and Unit 3.1 (Add words that you see fit from McMillan

Unit 2 and 3.1.)

“Big Idea Project” Timeline for Jamestown ( p.17 in McMillan S.S. Book)

Internet Accesstoresearch Idaho Falls Timeline

Ancestor History page(provided in MaterialsPacket)

Ancestor History Rubric

Poster Board , glue, markers to complete Ancestor’s History(Performance Indicator)

Main Idea Graphic Organizer(provided in Material Packet)

Immigration/Migration page(front, back) (provided in Materials Packet)

Butcher Paper crayons, markers for mural.

Pattern for “Pyramid Foldable” provided in Materials Packet

How Did People Get Here in Idaho? Power Point presentation

T-Chart for City Mouse Country Mouseprovided in Materials Packet

Compare and Contrast Foldable (front, back) provided in Materials Packet

McMillan Communities Assessment Book

Unit 2 Benchmark Assessment and Rubric

MOTIVATION (Anticipatory Set)

Students will be given a 3x5 card; on this card they are to brainstorm reasons that they might want to move their desks within the classroom. The students need to list reasons to support this move. Then break the students into small groups and discuss what they wrote on their cards. A group leader will list some of the reasons from the group on a large piece of butcher paper that they can share with the rest of the class.

LEARNING ACTIVITIES

1. McMillan: Unit 2pgs.49-59; 70-96

2. Vocabulary Unit 2: Worksheet provided in Materials Packet

3. Scott Foresman: Leveled Readers for “William’s House”

(Colonial New England, The Colonial Adventure, Houses Past and Present)

Big Idea Project: (p. 17 of McMillan’s Idea Factory) After reading pgs. 55-59 in the S.S. Book students will create a timeline using pictures of the Jamestown settlement.

4. Performance Indicator(see box above).

1. McMillan: Unit 2pgs.49-59; andpgs.70-96

2. “Ancestor History”(found in Materials Packet) Students will interview and complete the worksheet to be used in the Performance Indicator. (Rubric)

3. Performance Indicator:(see box above)

  1. McMillan Unit 2pgs.49-59 & pgs.70-96;Unit 3 pgs.4-9 & pgs.18-45
  2. Main Idea Graphic Organizer: Students will use the graphic organizer (provided in Materials Packet) to summarize the information about what happens to immigrants to the Untied States today. (see p. 103 in McMillan Teachers Manual).
  3. Performance Indicator: (see box above)

  1. Scott Foresman: Leveled Readers for “William’s House”

(Colonial New England, The Colonial Adventure, Houses Past and Present)

  1. Journeys
  • “Sarah, Plain and Tall” pgs. 207-221

Leveled Readers for “Sarah, Plain and Tall”

(Lost!, Race Against Time, An Unwelcome Visitor)

  1. McMillan: Unit 1(pgs.4-9and 18-45)
  2. Present the Power Point, How Did People Get Here in Idaho?
  3. The students will create a mural representing Idaho Falls in the past and present. The mural must have landforms and features found in our community along with natural resources as well asjobs that these resources provide.
  4. Performance Indicator: (see box above)
  1. Scott Foresman: Leveled Readers for “The Gardner”

(Niky’s Meadow)

Leveled Readers for“Me and Uncle Romie”

(A Walk Around the City, Bobby’s New Apartment, Let’s Go Have Fun)

  1. McMillan: Unit 1(pgs. 12-17)
  2. Teacher will read the story of “Country Mouse and City Mouse”, discussing the difference between the country and the city while reading the story. Next the teacher will create a T-Chart on the overhead labeled “Country” and “City”. The class will then brainstorm ideas from the story to complete the chart. Finally the teacher will tie this idea into the urban and rural

areas of Idaho Falls. (Transparency master for T-Chart provided in Materials Packet)

  1. Performance Indicator: (see box above)

CULMINATION

  1. Complete all performance indicators.
  2. Discuss the unit’s “Big Idea” question: How do people who settle together make their community unique?
  3. Tie the “Big Idea” question into the classroom and tell the students that they all came from a different family background but when they come to school each day they help to make their classroom unique. Discuss some of the ways that they contribute to the classroom community.
  4. Unit 2 Benchmark Assessment and Rubric

ASSESSMENT TOOLS

(Taken from McMillan Assessment Book)

All Performance Indicator activities should be used as an assessment tool.

Unit 2 Benchmark Assessment and Rubric

  1. McMillan S.S. Book: Unit 1.1 Lesson 1 Check Understanding p. 1
  2. McMillan S.S. Book: Unit 1.1 Vocabulary Review p. 2
  3. McMillan S.S. Book: Unit 1.1 Reading Comprehension p. 3
  4. McMillan S.S. Book: Unit 1.1Write About It p. 4
  5. McMillan S.S. Book: Unit 1.2 Check Understanding p. 5
  6. McMillan S.S. Book: Unit 1.2 Vocabulary Review p. 6
  7. McMillan S.S. Book: Unit 1.2 Reading Comprehension p. 7

8. McMillan S.S. Book: Unit 1.3 Check Understanding p. 9

9. McMillan S.S. Book: Unit 1.3 Vocabulary Review p. 10

10.McMillan S.S. Book: Unit 1.3 Reading Comprehension p. 11

11.McMillan S.S. Book: Unit 1.3.Write About It p. 12

12.McMillan S.S. Book: Unit 1.4 Check Understanding p. 13

13.McMillan S.S. Book: Unit 1.4 Vocabulary Review p. 14

14.McMillan S.S. Book: Unit 1.4 Reading Comprehension p.15

15.McMillan S.S. Book: Unit 1.5 Check Understanding p. 17

16.McMillan S.S. Book: Unit 1.5 Vocabulary Review p. 18

17.McMillan S.S. Book: Unit 1.5 Reading Comprehension p. 19

18.McMillan S.S. Book: Unit 2.1 Check Understanding p. 23

19.McMillan S.S. Book: Unit 2.1 Vocabulary Review p.24

20.McMillan S.S. Book: Unit 2.1 Write About It p. 26

21.McMillan S.S. Book: Unit 2.3 Check Understanding p. 31

22.McMillan S.S. Book: Unit 2.3 Vocabulary Review p. 32

23.McMillan S.S. Book: Unit 2.3Reading Comprehension p. 33

24.McMillan S.S. Book: Unit 2.4 Check Understanding p.35

25.McMillan S.S. Book: Unit 2.4 Vocabulary p. 36

26.McMillan S.S. Book: Unit 2.4 Reading Comprehension p. 37

27.McMillan S.S. Book: Unit 2.5 Check Understanding p. 39

28.McMillan S.S. Book: Unit 2.5 Vocabulary Review p.40

29.McMillan S.S. Book: Unit 2.5Write About It P. 42

30.McMillan S.S. Book: 2 Assessment Chart and Graph Skill p.44

31.McMillan S.S. Book: Unit 3.1 Check Understanding p. 46

32. McMillan S.S. Book: Unit 3.1 Vocabulary p. 47

33. McMillan S.S. Book: Unit 3.1 Reading Comprehension p.48