3rd Grade  / 3rd Six Weeks

Overarching Concept: Diversity

Organizing Idea: Proud To Be an American

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Unit Contents

In this Organizing Idea students understand how and why they live in a community rich in diversity. They study the use of the magnet as the technology that allowed Columbus to sail across the Atlantic and how that contributed to the movement of people from Europe, Africa, and Asia to the United States. As the students are introduced to the concept of immigration, they map the arrival of their own families to the United States and to their community. Each class of students studies a country of the world in depth and shares their information with another class.

Activities

Round the World:  A Winter Scavenger Hunt - by Mary Elam
Searching databases for information. Finding information within a source.
Winter Scavenger Hunt Worksheet - by Mary Elam

Author's Purpose - Fact & Opinion - Genres - by Kim Murff
Reading skills connecting students' study of early days of Plano to immigrants and the study of diverse countries

Library "Scavenger Hunt" - a suggested lesson from 3rd grades Curriculum Planner

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