Social Studies
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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. |
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Week 6 & 7 sTUDIES wEEKLY FREE choice activities
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For Weeks 6 & 7 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 regions. Click HERE |
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CA Regions small group Project
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Small groups will be doing a mini 3-panel presentation board of their region.
*** Project Instructions: Click HERE *** Project rubric (how you will be graded): Click HERE For your research, you can use: * Social Studies Week 11 Newspaper * Notes from the CA Regions DVD video we watched * CA Region informational document links, click HERE * Oakdome website CA Region links, click HERE Small groups will also do an oral presentation.
All group members must participate, and equally, in the oral presentation. *** Oral presentation rubric, click HERE |
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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 Week 11 Social Studies Weekly newspaper, as well as your own research that you have found. Take a look at a sample intro HERE.
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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.
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.
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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.
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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).
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