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TX.113.14.Social Studies, Grade 3

Social Studies, Grade 3

3.1. History. The student understands how individuals, events, and ideas have influenced the history of various communities. The student is expected to:

3.1.A. Describe how individuals, events, and ideas have changed communities, past and present.

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3.1.B. Identify individuals, including Pierre-Charles L'Enfant, Benjamin Banneker, and Benjamin Franklin, who have helped to shape communities.

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3.1.C. Describe how individuals, including Daniel Boone, Christopher Columbus, the Founding Fathers, and Juan de Oñate, have contributed to the expansion of existing communities or to the creation of new communities.

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3.10. Government. The student understands important ideas in historical documents at various levels of government. The student is expected to:

3.10.A. Identify the purposes of the Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution, including the Bill of Rights.

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3.11. Citizenship. The student understands characteristics of good citizenship as exemplified by historical and contemporary figures. The student is expected to:

3.11.A. Identify characteristics of good citizenship, including truthfulness, justice, equality, respect for oneself and others, responsibility in daily life, and participation in government by educating oneself about the issues, respectfully holding public offic

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3.11.B. Identify historical figures such as Helen Keller and Clara Barton and contemporary figures such as Ruby Bridges and military and first responders who exemplify good citizenship.

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3.11.C. Identify and explain the importance of individual acts of civic responsibility, including obeying laws, serving the community, serving on a jury, and voting.

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3.12. Citizenship. The student understands the impact of individual and group decisions on communities in a constitutional republic. The student is expected to:

3.12.A. Give examples of community changes that result from individual or group decisions.

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3.12.B. Identify examples of actions individuals and groups can take to improve the community.

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3.13. Culture. The student understands ethnic and/or cultural celebrations of the local community and other communities. The student is expected to:

3.13.A. Explain the significance of various ethnic and/or cultural celebrations in the local community and other communities.

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3.13.B. Compare ethnic and/or cultural celebrations in the local community with other communities.

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3.14. Culture. The student understands the role of heroes in shaping the culture of communities, the state, and the nation. The student is expected to:

3.14.A. Identify and compare the heroic deeds of state and national heroes, including Hector P. Garcia and James A. Lovell, and other individuals such as Harriet Tubman, Juliette Gordon Low, Todd Beamer, Ellen Ochoa, John ''Danny'' Olivas, and other contemporary

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3.14.B. Identify and analyze the heroic deeds of individuals, including military and first responders such as the Four Chaplains.

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3.15. Culture. The student understands the importance of writers and artists to the cultural heritage of communities. The student is expected to:

3.15.A. Identify various individual writers and artists such as Kadir Nelson, Tomie dePaola, and Phillis Wheatley and their stories, poems, statues, and paintings and other examples of cultural heritage from various communities.

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3.15.B. Explain the significance of various individual writers and artists such as Carmen Lomas Garza, Laura Ingalls Wilder, and Bill Martin Jr. and their stories, poems, statues, and paintings and other examples of cultural heritage to various communities.

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3.16. Science, technology, and society. The student understands how individuals have created or invented new technology and affected life in various communities, past and present. The student is expected to:

3.16.A. Identify scientists and inventors, including Jonas Salk, Maria Mitchell, and others who have discovered scientific breakthroughs or created or invented new technology such as Cyrus McCormick, Bill Gates, and Louis Pasteur.

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3.16.B. Identify the impact of scientific breakthroughs and new technology in computers, pasteurization, and medical vaccines on various communities.

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3.17. Social studies skills. The student applies critical-thinking skills to organize and use information acquired from a variety of valid sources, including electronic technology. The student is expected to:

3.17.C. Interpret oral, visual, and print material by identifying the main idea, distinguishing between fact and opinion, identifying cause and effect, and comparing and contrasting.

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3.17.E. Interpret and create visuals, including graphs, charts, tables, timelines, illustrations, and maps.

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3.17.F. Use appropriate mathematical skills to interpret social studies information such as maps and graphs.

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3.2. History. The student understands common characteristics of communities, past and present. The student is expected to:

3.2.B. Identify ways in which people in the local community and other communities meet their needs for government, education, communication, transportation, and recreation.

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3.3. History. The student understands the concepts of time and chronology. The student is expected to:

3.3.A. Use vocabulary related to chronology, including past, present, and future times.

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3.3.B. Create and interpret timelines.

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3.3.C. Apply the terms year, decade, and century to describe historical times.

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3.4. Geography. The student understands how humans adapt to variations in the physical environment. The student is expected to:

3.4.A. Describe and explain variations in the physical environment, including climate, landforms, natural resources, and natural hazards.

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3.4.C. Describe the effects of physical processes such as volcanoes, hurricanes, and earthquakes in shaping the landscape.

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3.5. Geography. The student understands the concepts of location, distance, and direction on maps and globes. The student is expected to:

3.5.B. Use a scale to determine the distance between places on maps and globes.

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3.5.C. Identify and use the compass rose, grid system, and symbols to locate places on maps and globes.

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3.5.D. Create and interpret maps of places and regions that contain map elements, including a title, compass rose, legend, scale, and grid system.

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3.6. Economics. The student understands the purposes of earning, spending, saving, and donating money. The student is expected to:

3.6.A. Identify ways of earning, spending, saving, and donating money.

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3.6.B. Create a simple budget that allocates money for spending, saving, and donating.

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3.8. Economics. The student understands how businesses operate in the U.S. free enterprise system. The student is expected to:

3.8.B. Explain how supply and demand affect the price of a good or service.

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3.8.E. Identify individuals, past and present, including Henry Ford and other entrepreneurs in the community such as Mary Kay Ash, Wallace Amos, Milton Hershey, and Sam Walton, who have started new businesses.

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3.9. Government. The student understands the basic structure and functions of various levels of government. The student is expected to:

3.9.A. Describe the basic structure of government in the local community, state, and nation.

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3.9.B. Identify local, state, and national government officials and explain how they are chosen.

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3.9.D. Explain how local, state, and national government services are financed.

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Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS)

TX.113.14.Social Studies, Grade 3

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