Being a Contributing Community Member: Social Studies Unit 8, Grade 3 (Letters & Devotion)

Description

Being a Contributing Community Member is Unit 8 of Communities Near and Far (Grade 3), the Letters & Devotion Social Studies course, complete in one printable PDF: 9 lessons, the unit check-up and the answer key, 43 pages.

• Citizen rights and responsibilities (Unit 5 vocabulary)
• Scale difference between a rule and a law
• The difference between a specific local need and a vague complaint
• Cost/benefit of a proposed community action
• Connection between a proposed rule-change and a community need
• Map location of a proposed action
• A full community-improvement proposal
• Oral defense of a community-improvement proposal
• Cumulative vocabulary and facts from Units 1-7

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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