"Government in a Community"
Subject Areas
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Social Studies
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English Language Arts
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Mathematics
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Objectives
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ELA.3.13A
The students will be able to identify the
main idea and details or facts that support the main idea in an expository
text.
ELA.3.13B The students will be able to draw conclusions from the facts presented in text and support those assertions with textual evidence. ELA3.13D The students will be able to use text features (e.g., bold print, captions, key words, italics) to locate information and make and verify predictions about contents of text. |
MATH.3.13A Collect, organize, record, and display data in pictographs and bar
graphs where each picture or cell might represent more than one piece of data.
MATH.3.13B
Interpret
information from pictographs and bar graphs.
MATH.3.13C Use data to describe events as more likely than, less likely than, or equally likely as. |
Essential Questions
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1. What are some things that government does for you? 2. Why do communities need leaders? 3. What government workers or officials are you most likely to see working for you? |
1. Why do we study about government?
2. What can you do to make your community a better place to live? 3. How can text features help me to understand an expository text? |
1. What questions can be answered from a graph? 2. What are ways to gather and record information? |
Activities
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Assessment
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The students will be assessed by a rubric. They will all work on Kerproof to create a movie (click on Inventory and then on the movie to see a sample) and a picture with a social studies theme, according to the unit. The students need to be creative and include at least 4 different scenes with at least 3 people in each scene of the movie. Grammar and spelling need to be accurate. RUBRIC |