.Government/Civic Understanding
(Standard SS3CG1): The student will explain the importance of the basic principles that provide the foundation of a republican form of government.
(Standard SS3H1): The student will explain the political roots of our modern democracy in the United States of America.
(Standard SS3H1): The student will explain the political roots of our modern democracy in the United States of America.
Below is a song we are using to practice the 3 Branches of Government and their roles.
Check out this video on Flocabulary that explains the 3 branches of government!
Below are the song lyrics for the Flocabulary song above.
Below is a document to use for extra practice on the 3 branches of government.
Below is some of the democracy vocabulary students pasted in their notebooks.
Below is a PowerPoint about democracy.
Below is a PowerPoint about the 3 branches of government.
Below is a PowerPoint we viewed in class to relate Ancient Greece Architecture to the United States.
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Map Skills
(Standard SS3G1): The student will locate major topographical features.
Below are some free games to play:
Below is a PowerPoint describing the 7 continents and 4 oceans.
Below is a video that will help students remember the 7 continents. We love Mr. DeMario!
Below is an activity students can do to practice latitude and longitude coordinates.
Latitude and Longitude Practice
Latitude and Longitude Practice
Below is a game for students to practice their skills on map grids.
Bike Route
Bike Route
Below is the vocabulary and other notes we've posted in our notebooks.
Below is an interactive site to explore the use of the compass rose.
Explore a Compass Rose
Below is a BrainPopJr. Video to explain Reading Maps. Take the easy and hard quizzes to test your knowledge.
Reading Maps BrainPopJr.
Explore a Compass Rose
Below is a BrainPopJr. Video to explain Reading Maps. Take the easy and hard quizzes to test your knowledge.
Reading Maps BrainPopJr.
American Heroes
(SS3H2) The student will discuss the lives of Americans who expanded people’s rights and freedoms in a democracy. a. Paul Revere (independence), Frederick Douglass (civil rights), Susan B. Anthony (women’s rights), Mary McLeod Bethune (education), Franklin D. Roosevelt (New Deal and World War II), Eleanor Roosevelt (United Nations and human rights), Thurgood Marshall (civil rights), Lyndon B. Johnson (Great Society and voting rights), and César Chávez (workers’ rights).
Check out this Blendspace to preview some videos about our American Heroes.
American Heroes Blendspace
American Heroes Blendspace
Franklin D. Roosevelt and Eleanor Roosevelt
Below is some of the vocabulary we will be focusing on for FDR.
Below is the reading guide answer key students filled out in class that follows the FDR biography.
Below are some cut and sort review flash cards to use at home for additional review.
MaryMcLeod Bethune (Education)
Below are some websites for you to research Mary McLeod Bethune.
http://gardenofpraise.com/ibdbethune.htm
http://www.notablebiographies.com/Be-Br/Bethune-Mary-Mcleod.html
http://study.com/academy/lesson/mary-mcleod-bethune-facts-impact-on-education.html
http://gardenofpraise.com/ibdbethune.htm
http://www.notablebiographies.com/Be-Br/Bethune-Mary-Mcleod.html
http://study.com/academy/lesson/mary-mcleod-bethune-facts-impact-on-education.html
Below is the vocabulary we will be focusing on for Mary McLeod Bethune.
Below is the KEY to the reading guide students worked on completing in class :)
Below is a PowerPoint to describe the life of Mary McLeod Bethune.