Course Title: 3rd Grade Social Studies
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Essential Standard:
3.G.1 Understand the earth’s patterns by using the 5 themes of geography: (location, place, human-environment
interaction, movement and regions)
RBT Tag:
B2
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5 days 3.G.1.1
Find absolute and relative locations of places within the local community and region 3.G.1.1 geography absolute location relative location address community region map globe direction scale definitive and approximate vicinity symbols labels legends 3.G.1.1
-Identify places by absolute and relative positions.
-Recognize absolute and relative locations as two ways of describing the positions and distribution of people and places on the earth’s surface.
-Contrast between absolute and relative locations.
-For example: Find absolute locations of places such as home address, school address, etc.
-For example: Find relative locations of significant places in the local community and region, such as where the school is located in relation to the fire department.
Distinguish between a map and a globe.
Utilize maps to describe the location of places within the local community and region.
Illustrate absolute and relative locations on a map and globe within the local community and region.
Construct maps of the local community that contain symbols, labels, and legends denoting absolute and relative locations.
Using social studies books define and discuss absolute and relative locations. (Classroom Talk, Scaffolding)
View a video discussing absolute and relative locations using the following link:
(Scaffolding, Classroom Talk)
Complete a Mapquest activity using the following link:
http
:// its . guilford . k 12. nc . us / webquests / location / location . htm
(Collaborative Group Work, Writing to Learn, Scaffolding)
Complete a sorting activity on the differences between absolute and relative locations.
(Collaborative Group Work, Scaffolding, Questioning)
Construct a map of a local community and include symbols, labels, scale, and legends. (Ex. map of the school, their neighborhood, etc.)
(Scaffolding, Collaborative Group Work)
Relative and Absolute Location
http
:// www . watchknowlearn . org / Video . aspx ?
VideoID =6291& CategoryID =1300
Mapquest activity
http
:// its . guilford . k 12. nc . us / webquests / location / location . htm
Safari Montage
Possible Read Aloud Materials:
Maps and Globes by Susan Lomas
Maps by Wiley Blevins.
Mapping Your Community by Marta Segal Block and Daniel R. Block
The North Carolina Atlas: Portrait For a New Century edited by Douglas M. Orr, Jr., & Alfred W. Stuart
Map Math by Kieran Walsh
How I Learned Geography by Uri Shulevitz
How People Immigrate by Sarah De Capua
Why Irish Immigrants Came to America
by Lewis K. Parker
The Keeping Quilt by Patricia Polacco
Getting Around by Jim Pipe
Understanding Differences by Rebecca Weber
Family Festivals by Jean Coppendale
