Social Studies Integrated Unit

The Third Grade Teachers will be collaborating with the ALF (Becky Kleist) and the LMC Director (Kristie Cerniglia) this year to teach our Social Studies curriculum.

Your children will have the opportunity to become researchers!  They will learn to think like detectives and write like investigative reporters.  They will search for the information themselves instead of having it taught explicitly to them.  They will collaborate, share their thinking, make connections in their learning, synthesize, analyze, and think critically about the world around them. This is differentiated, inquiry-based Social Studies instruction. All of our units will cover multiple Common Core Standards.

Elements:

Note Taking

Mini-lectures – Books, Videos, Maps

Centers with Task Cards – Maps, Images, Statistics, Nonfiction Reading, Media

Inquiry Groups

Research

Integration Includes:

Reading

Writing

Social Studies

Technology   

Research