Grade 3: NYS Social Studies Standards (Key Ideas and Performance Indicators)
Social Studies Standard 5: Students will use a variety of intellectual skills to demonstrate their understanding of the necessity for establishing governments; the governmental system of the United States and other nations; the United States Constitution; the basic civic values of American constitutional democracy; and the roles, rights, and responsibilities of citizenship, including avenues of participation.
Students in grades Grade 3 will demonstrate this understanding by-
- Knowing the meaning of key terms and concepts related to government including citizenship, justice, community, government, patriotism, power, common good, nation-state, national symbols, democracy, monarchy, and dictatorship
- Discussing how and why the world is divided into nations and what kinds of governments other nations have including constitutional democracies, monarchies, and dictatorships
- Describing the functions of various world governments and explaining how these governments maintain order, provide essential services, protect their citizens, solve problems, and interact with other communities and nations
- Identifying the roles of citizens in various world communities
- Explaining how the roles of citizens are alike and different in various world communities
- Identifying and describing the importance of various holidays, festivals, and celebrations practiced by nations and communities around the world
- Identifying and explaining the significance of different national symbols including flags, memorials, buildings, and monuments that represent different world communities and nations
- Explaining how some world communities and nations use free, fair, and competitive elections to select their representatives, judges, and other government officials
- Describing the process used by various world governments to make rules and laws to govern their citizens
- Discussing how nations of the world interact through trade, diplomacy, cultural contacts, treaties, agreements, and, at times, military conflict
- Investigating how nations of the world attempt to peacefully resolve conflicts including the involvement of the United Nations
- Describing how some nations of the world have independent judiciaries that apply the rule of law in their interactions between citizens and their governments
- Explaining how nations of the world apply written constitutions to protect their citizens' rights to life, liberty, equality, and justice
- Recognizing pictures of important national leaders and classifying them as historic or contemporary
- Explaining how nations of the world extend the rights, rules, and responsibilities of citizenship to others
- Discussing how citizens of world communities and nations participate in their governments and volunteer in their communities to improve the quality of life for all members of society
Grade 3: English Language Arts Standards (Key Ideas and Performance Indicators)
ELA Standard 1: Students will read, write, listen, and speak for information and understanding.
Grade 3 students will demonstrate this standard by-
- Interpreting information represented in maps, pictures, globes, charts, and graphs about various communities and nations
- Using graphics and illustrations to communicate information about world communities
- Preparing written reports about how governments in various nations meet the needs of their citizens
- Listening for data, facts, and ideas about various governments and how they function
- Speaking about how various governments interact with other nations through diplomacy, trade, cultural contacts, and agreements
ELA Standard 2: Students will read, write, listen, and speak for literary response and expression.
Grade 3 students will demonstrate this standard by-
- Creating maps, drawings, and charts that identify world communities and nations and illustrate the structures and functions of their forms of government (e.g., constitutional democracies, monarchies, or dictatorships)
- Writing book reports and reviews about various politically-important, historic events in world communities
- Preparing oral reports about important holidays, festivals, and celebrations practiced by diverse world communities and nations
- Listening respectfully as other students report about different governments
- Speaking in order to debate the strengths and weaknesses of different kinds of governments
ELA Standard 3: Students will read, write, listen, and speak for critical analysis and evaluation.
Grade 3 students will demonstrate this standard by-
- Preparing experience charts, posters, and bulletin board displays showing different national symbols found in various world communities and nations and explaining the significance of those symbols
- Expressing opinions about how different governments interact with each other in terms of trade, cultural contacts, agreements, and, at time, military conflict
- Reporting about how the United Nations, NATO, EU, the African Union, and other world organizations attempt to peacefully resolve international conflicts and how they provide aid and assistance in times of disaster and war