Social Studies

​CA Community Studies Weekly newspaper is the curriculum we use in 3rd grade for Social Studies.

Students:  Go to CLEVER or on the picture to your right access your online account.

Week 6 & 7 sTUDIES wEEKLY FREE choice activities

For our first two weeks in Studies Weekly, you have some options of extra things you can do:
1. Read the book, Our California, by Pamela Munoz Ryan (at the classroom whiteboard)
2. Watch the video about the illustrator of Our California, Rafael Lopez. Click HERE
​3. Watch a short video about California's 4 main land regions.  Click HERE 

CA Regions Project 

Click on the map below or HERE to be taken to the project instructions, as well as many links for research information. For another great website with region information, click HERE.   DUE DATE TBD
Due date TBD. Oral presentations will start TBD.
Students:  Click on the map to the right to be taken to the project instructions, as well as many links for research information.
​DUE DATE:  TBD
IF you have finished your CA region board, and you have approval from Ms. Dekker, you may choose to make video commercial for your region using Blabberize.  Please see Ms. Dekker for details. 
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Make a 20 second commercial about what makes California so special and why someone should visit California. It must include information from all four regions. Connect to your Blabberize account HERE.  You can use information from the 2nd Social Studies Weekly newspaper, as well as your own research that you have found.  Take a look at a sample intro HERE.

CA Native American Tribes GOOGLE SLIDES & PRESENTATION

 GOOGLE SLIDE PRESENTATION: due TBD

Oral presentations: sTARTING TBD

Standard:   4.2 Students describe the social, political, cultural, and economic life and interactions among people of California from the pre-Columbian societies to the Spanish mission and Mexican rancho periods.
​1. Discuss the major nations of California Indians, including their geographic distribution, economic activities, legends, and religious beliefs; and describe how they depended on, adapted to, and modified the physical environment by cultivation of land and use of sea resources.
Click on the map below for a copy of the project instructions and rubric.

CA Native American food staple: Acorns! 

Watch this short Discovery Education video about the how CA Native American groups ground the acorn, an important part of their diet. Miwok tribe is featured.
Click on the images below to go to 2 different websites that have CA Native American Tribe research information.
Watch this short Discovery Education video about the Chumash tribe (less than 2 min. long), as well as a short intro about a few other tribes.
Watch this short Discovery Education video about the CA Native American tribes in the "intermountain region" (about 2 1/2 min long).