Third Grade Social Studies
Planning Unit 7
Rights of Workers in the United States
Marlo Mong
March 10, 2009
How do I know what concepts to teach?
• Use your curriculum map!
– Every piece of content for the
rest of the year is listed under a
relevant concept
• DON’T FORGET! These are
suggestions – make them
work for your class!
• Keep up with it all by using
your concept wall.
Rights of Workers?
• Think about the differences between these two jobs
http://www.cropsci.ncsu.ed
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• Compare & Contrast
– What is happening in each picture? Describe the physical needs of each
job.
– What happens when it is hot?
– What happens when you need a break?
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These are recent pictures – Before Cesar Chavez, what were the rights
of farm workers?
Cesar Chavez: How did he help make
changes to workers’ rights?
– Activist: Why did he feel there needed to be
change? Think about how his beliefs influenced
his decision to create change.
– Significant locations:
– Born in Arizona but family moved because the family business closed because of a
draught during Great Depression
– Moved to California to earn income as migrant farm worker
• Harsh conditions for migrant workers including: low wage, unsafe tools, prejudice
against Mexican Americans (most of the migrant workers in CA)
• Attended over 30 schools before stopping after his 8th grade graduation. Why?
– Organized farm workers into labor unions (National Farm Workers Association) to
receive higher wages and safer working conditions
– Childhood influenced his beliefs when he grew up.
– Non-violent protests inspired by the work of MLK and Gandhi
– Awarded the Medal of Freedom – the highest honor for a civilian.
Framework Support
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View the Cesar Chavez powerpoint presentation to build student’s background
knowledge of California and the definition of what a migrant worker is. Explain to
students that they will make a powerpoint slide about one aspect of Sr. Chavez’s
life to create a class powerpoint presentation to be viewed at the end of this unit.
For students who have never created PowerPoint slides, conduct a mini-lesson that
guides students through basic slide development including the insertion of
graphics.
Provide a short checklist of elements that the teacher would like for the slide to
include. Elements might include:
Describe something from Cesar Chavez’s childhood that influenced his work to
help migrant workers
Think of the place that was most significant to Sr. Chavez’s work.
Explain one of the obstacles Sr. Chavez had to overcome and how he did it.
The slide has a title; at least two complete sentences about the slide topic; correct
capitalization and punctuation; at least one graphic is included on the slide;
someone edited the slide for mistakes and suggestions.
Additional Support
Many thanks to Christina Freeman, 3rd grade teacher – Henry County, for sharing
Productive Resources
Learn about ECONOMICS through song:
http://www.kidseconposters.com/econsongs.html
From Economics
for the
Elementary
School GPS Fundamental
Economics,
Grades K-3
EconAmerica
Workshop
Natural (land) – Gifts from nature
Human (labor) – Physical, intellectual, and creative skills of people
Capital (capital goods) – Resources used and made by people to produce and distribute goods and
services
Entrepreneurship (used to create goods and services) – Risk-takers willing to invest in something
new to creates goods and services.
How’d It Get There?!?
This lesson is from EconAmerica
Workshop, Fall 2008
•Students will think of everything
involved in the producing to consuming
of a candy bar.
•Natural resources? cocoa beans, cows
for milk, gas for the shipping trucks,
paper for the advertisement
•Human resources? the person who
milked the cow, cashier who took your
money at the store, factory worker who
put the candy in the wrapper, person
who thought of the recipe for the candy
bar
•Capital resources? Tractor used on the
farm, factory machines used to melt the
chocolate and mix everything together,
computers to design the candy wrapper
•Entrepreneurship? “Mr. Kroger”, candy
factory owner, trucking company owner
Interdependence
• Have students look at the label on their shirt (or have a friend look, if they’re not
feeling flexible ) to see where the shirt was made.
• Write the name of the country above the appropriate continent on the graph. For
example, if your shirt was made in Germany, you would write “Germany” in the
Europe column.
• Use the graph to help students understand TWO Enduring Understandings:
– The student will understand that the ways people make, get, and use goods
and services may be different from how people in other places make, get,
and use goods and services.
– Where you live matters.
• Help students answer these questions:
– Where were most of our clothes made?
– Were anyone’s clothes made in our county?
– Why do we buy things from other countries?
– Are there things we MUST buy from other countries? Why?
Resources
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Remember! These are only suggested resources. Make sure to
preview these sites before sharing them with your students. You
know your students better than I do!
http://www.americaslibrary.gov/cgi-bin/page.cgi/aa/chavez: From America’s Story &
the Library of Congress, kid-friendly biography of Cesar Chavez. Make sure to click on
the related stories links – The Grapes of Wrath & Viva la Huelga
http://www.sdcoe.k12.ca.us/chavez/chavez.pdf: Lesson plans and activities designed
in conjunction with the San Diego County Office of Education honoring Cesar Chavez
& Cesar Chavez Day.
http://www.ufw.org/_page.php?inc=history/07.html&menu=research: The biography of
Cesar Chavez on the official website of the United Farm Workers. You can also link to
different You Tube videos that celebrate the life and work of Sr. Chavez – PREVIEW
videos before sharing with your students.
http://www.kidseconposters.com/index.html: You can find lots of free tools to teach
economics to your students at this website – like children’s literature with lesson plans
& fun songs to teach important economic concepts.
http://www.econedlink.org/lessons/: This is the lessons section of econedlink.org. Use
this page to search for lessons about specific concepts in economics.
http://www.gcee.org/: The Georgia Council for Economics Education is dedicated to
providing the best resources for Georgia’s teachers and students.
Resources for Integration
Cesar Chavez: The
Struggle for Justice
By: Richard Griswold
Publisher: Pinata Books;
Bilingual edition
Apples for Life
By: Alan Zepeda
Publisher: Evangel Press
Concept-Capital Resources
http://www.kidseconposters.
com/keb/Title%20List%20Po
ster%20Set%20A/Capital%2
0Resources/Apples%20for%
20Life.htm
Cesar Chavez
Photo-Illustrated Biography
By: Lucile Davis
Publisher: Capstone Press
Charlie Needs a Cloak
By: Tomie DePaola
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Children's Publishing
Human Resources
http://www.kidseconposters.co
m/keb/Title%20List%20Poster%
20Set%20A/Human%20Resourc
es/Charlie%20Needs%20a%20C
loak.htm
Harvesting Hope: The Story of
Cesar Chavez
By: Kathleen Krull
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Harcourt
Just a Dream
By: Chris Van Allsburg
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Harcourt
Concept-Natural Resources
http://www.kidseconposters.
com/keb/Title%20List%20Po
ster%20Set%20A/Natural%2
0Resources/Just%20a%20Dr
eam.htm
Lake Loon Fishing Derby
By: Kathleen Cook Waldron
Publisher: Orca Book Publishers
Concept-Entrepreneurs
http://search.barnesandnoble.com/Lo
on-Lake-Fishing-Derby/KathleenCook-CookWaldron/e/9781551431420/?itm=1
Cesar Chavez
By: Ginger Wadsworth
Publisher: Lerner
Publishing Group
Here’s the Scoop: Follow an Ice
Cream Cone Around the World
By: Neale S. Godfrey
Publisher: Silver Burdett Press
Concept-Interdependence
http://search.barnesandnoble.co
m/Heres-the-Scoop/Neale-SGodfrey/e/9780382249129/?itm=1