Social Studies - 3rd Grade (2024)
Lesson Plans

Strand 2: Your Community

Students analyze the communities in which they live, including geography, relative size, and interdependent relationships.

Compelling Questions:

• What are some of the different communities to which you belong?
• What is your culture?
• What do communities need to thrive?
• What are some unique aspects of your community?
• How has your community changed or remained the same with the passage of time and why?

Standard 3.2.4

Evaluate how their community has changed over time (for example, economic interdependence, changes to the environment).

• Father Sky & Mother Earth: A Navajo Legend
  Caring for the Earth is an important part of responsible decision-making and global citizenship. Our Father Sky and Mother Earth provide for our most basic needs. We need to protect and care for our environment. Through this lesson, students will strengthen thier social and emotional learning skills by reading a Navajo legend - "Father Sky and Mother Earth." Student will explore how they can be good stewards of the Earth and Sky in protecting our natural resources. 
• Northwestern Shoshone Fish Song
  Sing a Northwestern Shoshone song.
  Write a narrative story about an experience in nature.
  Create music compositions patterned after the song.
  This lesson is written in partnership with and approved by the Northwestern Band of the Shoshone Nation Cultural Specialist, Patty Timbimboo-Madsen and Paula Watkins, library consultant to the tribal nation. Before teaching this lesson, please explain to your students that there are many Indigenous tribes in Seal for the Northwestern Shoshonethe United States and that this lesson specifically focuses on a song of the Northwestern Band of the Shoshone Nation and does not represent other Native American groups. It is the hope of the Northwestern Shoshone that other native tribes will respect their choice to share this aspect of their culture.

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