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Third Grade Social Studies Worksheets

Third Grade Social Studies Worksheets

Grade: 6-12 Indiana Courses: So many This is a link to one of my favorite YouTube channels, Crash Course. I have personally seen these videos used in high school AP Government, high school Economics, and middle school social studies classes. They provide succinct, fun, and informative information on a variety of topics and help facilitate information on a particular topic or unit as a fun visual/audio change of pace to a normal class structure of lecturing. These videos are useful for middle school and high school lessons (but seriously, I often watch them in my spare time because they're that good.)

Grade: 6-12 Indiana Courses: So many This is a link to one of my favorite YouTube channels, Crash Course. I have personally seen these videos used in high school AP Government, high school Economics, and middle school social studies classes. They provide succinct, fun, and informative information on a variety of topics and help facilitate information on a particular topic or unit as a fun visual/audio change of pace to a normal class structure of lecturing. These videos are useful for middle school and high school lessons (but seriously, I often watch them in my spare time because they're that good.)

Grade: 11 or 12 Social Studies Indiana Courses: 1552-1592 This is a YouTube video of all the Presidents' names in order (up to Bush 43, as it was made in 2007) . This would be a useful tool for audio learners or visual learners, as it includes pictures of all the Presidents as it says their names, and does so to the tune of "Yankee Doodle". Musical sources should not be underestimated as a teaching tool as music often ties intimately to our memory!

Grade: 6-12 Social Studies Indiana Course: 1500 This National Geographic map shows the history of human migration from ancestral Africa to every inhabited continent in the world. This resource would work for a general History class, World History, or Geography, but I specifically selected it based on the Indiana State Approved Course Titles and Descriptions text.

Grade: 9-12 Social Studies Indiana Course: 1602 This is a list of classroom activities devised by the University of Washington that are intended to promote critical thought and introspection in students, and as such, are recommended for grades 9 through 12. The activities could be retrofit for classes other than philosophy, such as those which require research papers or for government/politics classes involving the Founding Fathers.

This is a site laced with links to activities on everything from history to government for third grade, and better yet, they are all online activities!

Educating using a virtual world

This site is unique in that it offers a daily, weekly and monthly lesson plan templates per subject. This assists in making the lesson plans more specialized.

This is an education-focused resource website for teachers who teach Economics of any stripe, k-12. It includes resources geared toward not just the teaching of economics principles but also personal finance management. It is a well-spring of information from which teachers may draw to teach classes related to money.

This is a lesson plan for an activity that focuses on third grade social studies standard, "SS.3.1 2007 - History Students will describe how significant people, events and developments have shaped their own community and region; compare their community to other communities in the region in other times and places; and use a variety of resources to gather information about the past" I love that this is interactive, and includes reflection at the end!

This site offers many ideas for teachers to use in the classroom pertaining to the state standards. This particular idea focuses on building a first grader's mapping skills.