Communities Across Time: Social Studies Unit 4, Grade 3 (Letters & Devotion)

Description

Communities Across Time is Unit 4 of Communities Near and Far (Grade 3), the Letters & Devotion Social Studies course, complete in one printable PDF: 8 lessons, the unit check-up and the answer key, 38 pages.

• Primary vs. secondary source classification
• The defining feature (time of creation) of primary sources
• Then/now comparison of homes, work, and transport in the studied local or regional community
• Change and continuity within one community’s traditions
• Citing source evidence to support a then/now claim
• The limits of a single piece of evidence for future historical inference
• Unit vocabulary: primary source, secondary source, then/now, change, continuity, tradition
• Map location of the studied local or regional community

Every lesson is written for a parent with no teaching background: it opens with a short script to read aloud, names the specific wrong idea a student is likely to reach for and how to correct it, and closes with a practice sheet you may copy for your household. Scripture references are King James Version throughout. Black-and-white, 8.5 x 11 in. The whole year of this course is also in this store as a single book.

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