Grade 3 Social Studies Minnesota standards Standards

Identify how various groups have advocated for selfdetermination and a more representative media.

Ethnic Studies

Describe how groups or individuals from ancient times helped shape the world around them, and identify their impact today.

Explain how the environment influenced the movement of ancient peoples in three different regions of the world.

Explain how an invention of the past changed life at that time, as well as positive, negative and unintended outcomes.

Identify what types of historical sources have survived from the ancient world. Ask and answer questions about what we can and cannot know about the ancient world based on these sources.

Identify and describe daily life for people living in ancient times in at least three different parts of the world.

Compare and contrast family life, buildings and/or technologies from ancient times to today.

Identify various ways that different cultures have expressed concepts of time and space.

History

Describe how different places, including school, the environment or local community, makes one feel.

Identify patterns of human populations in relation to access to natural resources in three regions in different parts of the ancient world.

Differentiate physical regions from human regions and identify examples from the past and today.

Interpret a map of a region in the ancient world by asking and answering spatial questions based on the map.

Geography

Explain that consumers have two roles—as sellers of resources and buyers of goods and services. Explain that producers have two roles—as sellers of goods and services and buyers of resources.

Identify possible short-term and long-term consequences of different choices, while highlighting that not all individuals have access to the same choices.

Explain that producing any good or service requires resources. Describe the resources needed to produce a specific good or service. Explain why it is not possible to produce an unlimited amount of a good or service.

Economics

Locate the 11 Tribal Nations of Minnesota and describe how Tribal Nations interact with local or state government.

Identify a local public problem and describe ways individuals and groups can take informed action to influence decision makers to make a difference in the civic life of their communities.

Describe the importance of the services provided by all levels of government and explain how taxes and fees fund government services.

Explain the principles of majority rule with minority rights and describe how civil discourse supports respect for diverse viewpoints.

Identify ways that individuals become informed about public issues and diverse viewpoints. Demonstrate how to evaluate a source by distinguishing between fact and opinion.

Citizenship and Government

Civic Skills: Apply civic reasoning and demonstrate civic skills for the purpose of informed and engaged lifelong civic participation.

Rights and Responsibilities: Explain and evaluate rights, duties and responsibilities in democratic society.

Governmental Institutions and Political Processes: Explain and evaluate processes, rules and laws of United States governmental institutions at local, state and federal levels and within Tribal Nations.

Public Policy: Analyze how public policy is shaped by governmental and nongovernmental institutions. Analyze how people and communities take action to solve problems and shape public policy.

Tribal Nations: Evaluate the unique political status, trust relationships and governing structures of sovereign Tribal Nations and the United States.

Microeconomics: Explain and evaluate how resources are used and how goods and services are distributed within different economic systems. Analyze how incentives influence the decisions of consumers, producers, and governments. Evaluate the intended and unintended consequences of these decisions from multiple perspectives.

Fundamental Economic Concepts: Analyze how scarcity and artificial shortages force individuals, organizations, communities, and governments to make choices and incur opportunity costs. Analyze how the decisions of individuals, organizations, communities, and governments affect economic equity and efficiency.

Personal Finance: Apply economic concepts and models to develop individual and collective financial goals and strategies for achieving these goals, taking into consideration historical and contemporary conditions that either inhibit or advance the creation of individual and generational wealth.

Geospatial Skills and Inquiry: Apply geographic tools, including geospatial technologies, and geographic inquiry to solve spatial problems.

Places and Regions: Describe places and regions, explaining how they are influenced by power structures.

Human Systems: Analyze patterns of movement and interconnectedness within and between cultural, economic and political systems from a local to global scale.

Culture: Investigate how sense of place is impacted by different cultural perspectives.

Context, Change, and Continuity: Ask historical questions about context, change and continuity in order to identify and analyze dominant and nondominant narratives about the past.

Context, Change, and Continuity: Ask historical questions about context, change and continuity in order to identify and analyze dominant and nondominant narratives about the past.

Historical Perspectives: Identify diverse points of view, and describe how one’s frame of reference influences historical perspective.

Historical Sources and Evidence: Investigate a variety of historical sources by: a) analyzing primary and secondary sources; b) identifying perspectives and narratives that are absent from the available sources; and c) interpreting the historical context, intended audience, purpose, and author’s point of view of these sources.

Causation and Argumentation: Integrate evidence from multiple historical sources and interpretations into a reasoned argument or compelling narrative about the past.

Causation and Argumentation: Integrate evidence from multiple historical sources and interpretations into a reasoned argument or compelling narrative about the past.

Connecting Past and Present: Use historical methods and sources to identify and analyze the roots of a contemporary issue. Design a plan to address it.

Resistance: Describe how individuals and communities have fought for freedom and liberation against systemic and coordinated exercises of power locally and globally. Identify strategies or times that have resulted in lasting change. Organize with others to engage in activities that could further the rights and dignity of all.