education standards

Identify facts and concepts associated with a supporting question.

Use maps, graphs, photographs, and other representations to describe places and the relationships and interactions that shape them.

Use maps, globes, and other simple geographic models to identify cultural and environmental characteristics of places.

Explain how culture influences the way people modify and adapt to their environments.

Explain how cultural patterns and economic decisions influence environments and the daily lives of people in both nearby and distant places.

Analyze relationships and interactions within and between human and physical systems to explain reciprocal influences that occur among them.

Explain how the cultural and environmental characteristics of places change over time.

Describe how human activities affect the cultural and environmental characteristics of places or regions.

Identify the disciplinary concepts and ideas associated with a supporting question that are open to interpretation.

Identify facts and concepts associated with a supporting question.

Explain how culture influences the way people modify and adapt to their environments.

Explain how cultural patterns and economic decisions influence environments and the daily lives of people in both nearby and distant places.

Identify some cultural and environmental characteristics of specific places.

Identify disciplinary concepts and ideas associated with a compelling question that are open to different interpretations.

Comprehension and Collaboration: Recount or describe key ideas or details from a text read aloud or information presented orally or through other media.

Comprehension and Collaboration: Explain their own ideas and understanding in light of the discussion.

Comprehension and Collaboration: Ask and answer questions about information from a speaker, offering appropriate elaboration and detail.

Comprehension and Collaboration: Pose and respond to specific questions by making comments that contribute to the discussion and elaborate on the remarks of others.

Comprehension and Collaboration: Review the key ideas expressed and draw conclusions in light of information and knowledge gained from the discussions.

Research to Build and Present Knowledge: With guidance and support from adults, recall information from experiences or gather information from provided sources to answer a question.

Analyze the effects of catastrophic environmental and technological events on human settlements and migration.

Evaluate the influences of long-term human-induced environmental change on spatial patterns of conflict and cooperation.

Explain multiple causes and effects of events and developments in the past.

Compare life in specific historical time periods to life today.

Compare life in the past to life today.

Compare perspectives of people in the past to those of people in the present.

Describe how people's perspectives shaped the historical sources they created.

Analyze how people's perspectives influenced what information is available in the historical sources they created.

Generate possible reasons for an event or development in the past.

Comprehension and Collaboration: Engage effectively in a range of collaborative discussions (one-on-one, in groups, and teacher-led) with diverse partners on grade 3 topics and texts, building on others' ideas and expressing their own clearly.

Comprehension and Collaboration: Come to discussions prepared, having read or studied required material; explicitly draw on that preparation and other information known about the topic to explore ideas under discussion.

Comprehension and Collaboration: Follow agreed-upon rules for discussions (e.g., gaining the floor in respectful ways, listening to others with care, speaking one at a time about the topics and texts under discussion).

Comprehension and Collaboration: Ask questions to check understanding of information presented, stay on topic, and link their comments to the remarks of others.

Comprehension and Collaboration: Explain their own ideas and understanding in light of the discussion.

Comprehension and Collaboration: Ask and answer questions about information from a speaker, offering appropriate elaboration and detail.

Presentation of Knowledge and Ideas: Report on a topic or text, tell a story, or recount an experience with appropriate facts and relevant, descriptive details, speaking clearly at an understandable pace.

Analyze the effects of catastrophic environmental and technological events on human settlements and migration.

Comprehension and Collaboration: Engage effectively in a range of collaborative discussions (one-on-one, in groups, and teacher-led) with diverse partners on grade 3 topics and texts, building on others' ideas and expressing their own clearly.

Comprehension and Collaboration: Come to discussions prepared, having read or studied required material; explicitly draw on that preparation and other information known about the topic to explore ideas under discussion.

Comprehension and Collaboration: Ask questions to check understanding of information presented, stay on topic, and link their comments to the remarks of others.

Comprehension and Collaboration: Explain their own ideas and understanding in light of the discussion.

Comprehension and Collaboration: Ask and answer questions about information from a speaker, offering appropriate elaboration and detail.

Presentation of Knowledge and Ideas: Speak in complete sentences when appropriate to task and situation in order to provide requested detail or clarification. (See grade 3 Language standards 1 and 3 on page 26 for specific expectations.)