Social Studies - 3rd Grade

• AIRNow - Quality of Air Means Quality of Life
  Local Air Quality Conditions and Forecasts
• American Colonial Life in the Late 1700s: Distant Cousins
  After completing these activities, students will be able to: identify the original thirteen British colonies on a map; understand how physical geography affected settlement; understand how settlers' backgrounds influenced their values, priorities, and daily lives; examine artifacts and make inferences about the people and the historical periods that they represent; imagine typical daily life for different families in colonial America in the late 1700s; write a letter from the viewpoint of someone who lived in a different time and place.
• Balloon Globe
  These directions and a template from the Arthur TV show collection tell how to build a globe using a balloon.
• Biomes from Enchanted Learning
  Maps, information about animals, and printable resources are available.
• Biomes from Thinkscience.org
  Check out this collection of links that define the different biomes/ecosystems in the world.
• Biomes of the World: The Wild Classroom and Explore Biodiversity
  Click on a biome on the graph for more information, informative videos, and links to scientist profiles, travel information, lesson plans and species profiles for each region.
• Disappearing Night Sky
  How many stars are in the night sky? More than you realize. Find out why and how to increase the number of stars that we can see each night.
• EekoWorld Environment
  This PBS web site for children teachers about various environments: Tundra, Forest, Aquatic, Grasslands and Deserts.
• Human Footprint: Where Does All the Stuff Go?
  Our human footprint doesn't end after we buy and consume things; the final impact occurs when we discard items and we Americans discard four-fifths of a ton of trash per person, per year.
• MapMaker
  Hundreds of maps of the world made for printing and copying.
• Meet Kids from Canada
  Learn about Canada from Canadian kids.
• Natural History Museum of Utah
  Visit this web site to learn about the museum's current exhibits and their permanent collections.
• PBS: Meet the Greens
  This website is for kids who are interested in looking after the planet.
• People and Endangered Species
  This lesson provides students with an overview of some endangered species and of the ways that human activities contribute to species endangerment.
• Reading a Map
  This website has an interactive map that teaches about contour maps how to use one.
• Reduce Waste: If not you, who?
  Learn more about ways you can reduce waste by avoiding making garbage in the first place.
• Resources for Recycling
  List of links for teaching Recycling.
• Teaching Kits: Utah Geological Survey
  Geology-Related Teaching Kits.
• The Aztecs: Mighty Warriors of Mexico
  After completing this lesson, students will be able to: identify the Aztecs as the builders of a great city and rich civilization in what is now Mexico; locate the Aztec Empire and its capital on a map; describe several aspects of Aztec culture; and understand the causes of the Aztec civilization's downfall.
• Trash Talking
  Is it trash or can it be recycled?
• Utah Division of Wildlife: Wildlife Species Fact Sheets
  Utah Division of Wildlife's collection of fact sheets on several Utah animals.
• Walk Through the Continents: Mega maps
  Download and print simple blackline maps from all over the world.
• What Tree is That?
  You can identify most trees by studying their leaves, seeds, and fruit. This animation will help you learn to identify these characteristics and take a step-by-step approach to arrive at the name of your tree.
• What is it Like Where You Live? Biomes of the World
  Learn about the world's major environments: rainforests, tundras, taigas, desert, temperate and grasslands.
• Windows to the Universe: Biomes and Ecosystems
  Learn about different biomes of the world, with three different readability levels, with similar plants, animals, and other living things that are adapted to the climate and other conditions.
• World Biomes.com
  WorldBiomes.com covers five of the major world biomes.