Course Title: 3rd Grade Social Studies
Essential Standard:
3.H.2 Use historical thinking skills to understand the context of events, people and places.
RBT Tag:
D3
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7 days 3.H.2.1 Explain change over time through historical narratives. (events, people and places) 3.H.2.1 impact biography autobiography primary source secondary source history historical essay 3.H.2.1
-Identify how people, events and places impact history over time.
-Understand how to define historical narratives. (For example: biographies, autobiographies, historical essays, etc.)
-Analyze how historical narratives are used to help define factual historical evidence.
-Explain how historical narratives are used to tell how and why change takes place in past events, people and places.
-Justify why historians use primary and secondary sources to answer questions about historical events.
After a read-aloud in class of an autobiography, create a timeline of milestones within the student's life. The student may include
photographs or keepsakes within their timeline. They will then write their own autobiography.
(Writing to learn, scaffolding)
Interview a classmate about his or her life. Create a biography using the information from the interview. (Collaborative group work,
scaffolding, writing to learn, questioning)
Choose a historical narrative (examples: bookgirl3.tripod.com/historicalfiction.html ) to read as a class and discuss the historical evidence. (Classroom talk, questioning)
Set up stations with various sources (primary and secondary). For example, encyclopedia, newspaper article, autobiography, magazine articles, etc. Students must move from station to station with a partner and investigate whether each is a primary or secondary source and why. (Questioning, collaborative group
work, scaffolding)
As a class, have students brainstorm examples of
Websites
http://usgovinfo.about.com
/library/weekly/aa122102a.htm (Some information on this website may not be appropriate for children, but be helpful as a teacher resource)
Possible Read Aloud Materials:
Next Spring an Oriole by Gloria
Whelan
Finding Providence: the Story of Roger William by Avi
Crazy Horse’s Vision by Joseph
Bruchac
Your Strange New Land by
Patricia Hermes
Little House on the Prairie by
Laura Ingalls Wilder
The Colony of North Carolina by
secondary sources and primary sources to create a list for classroom display. (Classroom Talk, Questioning)
Thanksgiving on Thursday by
Mary Pope Osborne
Home Life in Colonial America by
Charlie Samuel
Roanoke: The Lost Colony by
Brooke Coleman
Captain John Smith by Trish Kline
The First Thanksgiving by Linda
Wayward
Abigail Adams: Girl of Colonial Days by Jean Brown Wagoner
The First Thanksgiving by Jean
Craighead George
Karen’s Pilgrim by Robert D. San
Souci
Finding Providence: the Story of Roger Williams by Avi
New Friends in a New Land: a Thanksgiving by Judith Bauer
Stamper
Fun and Games in Colonial America by Mark Thomas
The Thirteen Colonies by Dennis
B. Fradin
Life in a Colonial Town by Sally
A Plymouth Partnership: Pilgrims and Native Americans
by Susan Whitehurst
Our Strange New Land by
Patricia Hermes
School in Colonial America by
Mark Thomas
Colonial Voices Hear Them Speak
by Kay Winters
Videos on Discovery Education: Literature to Enjoy and Write About: Interviewing: Biography 19:50
Animated Hero Classics: Harriet Tubman, Helen Keller, The Wright Brothers, Alexander Graham Bell, Pocahontas, Christopher Columbus, Thomas Edinson, Ben Franklin, William Bradford, or George Washington
5-7 days 3.H.2.2 Explain how multiple perspectives are portrayed through historical narratives. 3.H.2.2 perspective artifacts evidence opinion historical narrative 3.H.2.2
-Compare how historical sources from multiple points of view may be used to develop an understanding of what happened in the past.
-Demonstrate how perspectives shape history.
-Discover how historical narratives provide multiples
Multiple Perspectives Jigsaw- Students discover the perspectives of an event. For example, Native Americans and Pilgrims, or Confederate and Union soldiers. After reading and discussing one point of view, students will debate from these perspectives. (Collaborative group work,
classroom talk, scaffolding)
Have students write a friendly letter to the opposing perspective (for example, pilgrim writes a letter to Native American). In the letter, explain the ways they have positively and
Possible Read Aloud Materials:
Boomtown in Reading Basal
Betsy Ross by David Armentrout
Heroes of Revolution by David A.
Adler
Yankee Doodle: A Song From the American Revolution by Jim
Murphy
perspectives of history.
-Explain how historical sources including artifacts, pictures and documents offer evidence of what happened in the past.
-Understand how there is more than one perspective of any historical event.
negatively affected their lives. (Writing to learn)
Research a historical event (example, the gold rush) to find artifacts, pictures or documents to discover evidence of what happened in the past.
(Scaffolding, collaborative group work)
Have student’s work with a partner to research past Presidents and their influence on our country. (collaborative group work)
Wednesday by Mary Pope
Osborne
Paul Revere by Lis Trumbauer
Betsy Ross by Helen Frost
The Ride: The Legend of Betsy Dowdy by Kitty Griffin
Betsy Ross: Designer of Our Flag
by Ann Weil
Molly Pitche: Young Patriot by
Augusta Stevenson
George, the Drummer Boy by
Nathaniel Benchley
Crispus Attucks: Hero of the Boston Massacre by Anne Beier
A Picture Book of Paul Revere by
David A. Adler
The Boston Tea Party by Steven
Kroll
Paul Revere: Boston Patriot by
Augusta Stevenson
Civil War on Sunday by Mary
Pope Osborne
When Johnny Comes Marching Home: A Song About a Soldier’s Return by P. S. Gilmore
Grace’s Letter to Lincoln by Peter
Roop
Abraham Lincoln: Lawyer, President, Emancipator by
Pamela Hill Nettleton
Looking at Lincoln by Maira Kalman
Clara Barton by Lola M. Schaefer
Abraham Lincoln: The Great Emancipator by Augusta
Stevenson
Clara Barton: A Photo-Illustrated Biography by
Kathleen W. Deady
Robert E. Lee: Young Confederate by Helen Albee
Monsell
Video on Discovery Education: The Pilgrims of Plymoth 25:24
Friendly Letter (writing folder idea)
Possible Read Aloud Molly’s Pilgrim
30:00
