DLI 3rd grade guide

End of Unit Competency Students defne the communities within which they live beginning from a geographical context. Students explore the relative sizes of the town/city, county, state, and country in which they live. They research the geographical features and resources of their community. They analyze interdependent relationships within and across communities. The concept of community change over time and cause and effect are reinforced. Interaction with the environment and changes made to the environment and changes made to the environment are examined. Language Features: ● Nouns: community, map, continent, country, state, geography, community, culture, specialized jobs, trade, environmental ● Verbs: locate, contrast, describe, develop, sustain, extinguish, defne, evaluate, examine, identify SKILLS VOCABULARY (Can be supplemented by Wonders and be classroom-specifc) ● locate

● print and digital map ● continent ● country

● community ● culture ● architecture ● interdependent ● trade ● specialized ● adapt ● modify ● environment

● contrast ● describe ● defne ● evaluate ● examine ● identify

● state ● scale

● physical features ● natural resources ● sustain

Wonders Content Integration Unit 1

Wonder TE T28 “Culture in Your Community”: Students research and write about their community while practicing map skills.

Social Studies Standards: 3.1.1: Locate your community on print and digital maps of the earth, your continent, country, and state and contrast the differences in their sizes and the relationships in scale between each of them; 3.1.3: Defne your own culture or the culture of your community (This should include the art, music, food, dance, system of writing, architecture, religious and governmental beliefs, etc. to which you are ongoingly exposed or of which you are part); 3.2.1: Analyze how your community has been shaped by the diverse people who have resided within it; 3.2.3: Research improvements that have been made in your community over time (e.g., provision of good schools, roads, emergency services, electricity, clean water, job opportunities, housing, parks, recreation, libraries, clean environment, protection of civil rights).