SOCIAL STUDIES CONTENT CONNECTION TEMPLATE II Grade 3
Story Town Theme Title: A Place for All
Theme 5
Social Studies Theme Connection: Determine Relationship Between Human
Settlement and Geography
Essential Question(s)
 What are the main geographic features on Earth?
Story Town: Main Selection and Leveled
Books
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Classroom Library any nonfiction books about
landforms, habitats, biomes
World Map
US Map with Regions
The Life of a Pond
The Everglades
Desert Lives
Where the River Begins
Outside Books:
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Other Resources
A Seaside Alphabet
It Could Still Be a Desert
Geography A-Z
http://www.amazon.com/Geography-PictureGlossary-Trophy-Books/dp/0064460991
There’s a Map on My Lap!
Outside Resources:
 Reader’s Theater about Landforms
http://www.rosalindflynn.com/pdf%20files/Landforms%20RT%20script.p
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Create Your Own Biome games
(http://www.mrnussbaum.com/biomes.htm
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Habitat Maker
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Create Your Own Continent
(http://www.mrnussbaum.com/habitatmaker2.htm)
(http://www.sunny.issaquah.wednet.edu/Teachers/mcconnellk/CreateContinent.pdf)
Core Program Vocabulary (Tier II)
 Surrounding
 Detail
 Harsh
 Bleak
 Drifts
 Scarce
 Shelters
 Conserved
 Permanently
Content Vocabulary (Tier III)
 Grassland
 Equator
 Mountain
 Tropic
 Tundra
 North
 Desert
 East
 Plain
 South
 Wetland
 West
 Natural
 Continents
resource
 Region
 Forest
 Latitude
 Ocean
 Longitude
Comprehension Focus Strategy
 Reread information that doesn’t make
sense
Comprehension Focus Skill
 Look for details and facts, information
told in time order.
Connecting Social Studies Standard(s)
Objective(s)
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Standard 1
Students will understand how geography
influences community location and development
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Identify the geographic features
common to areas where human
settlements exist
Intended Learning Outcomes
 Students will be able to identify the main geographic land features and to distinguish
between them.
Social Studies Activities t0 Develop Social Studies Concepts
Learn landforms using these riddles. (http://www.totally3rdgrade.com/landforms.html)
Illustrated Landforms on Enchanted Learning
(http://www.enchantedlearning.com/geography/landforms/glossary.shtml)
Geography of Our Country (Use with U.S. regions map)
The large flat areas of our country we call
The plains and they have no mountains at all
Plateaus are flat but higher they stand
Than any of its surrounding land
Deep valleys with steep hill sides called canyons are grand
And sloping mountains all make up our beautiful land
Chorus:
The geography of our country is its land forms, climates and regions
The geography of our country is its land forms, climates and regions
The climate of weather depends if you're near or far from the ocean
Both rain and snow that fall are forms of precipitation
The higher above sea level you go, the higher your altitude
It's colder up high than it is below, down by the ocean blue
Chorus:
The geography of our country is its land forms, climates and regions
The geography of our country is its land forms, climates and regions
The U.S. has five regions of land
And with the longitude and latitude you can find out where you stand
Chorus:
The geography of our country is its land forms, climates and regions
The geography of our country is its land forms, climates and regions