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What is my 3rd grader learning during the 2nd NINE WEEKS?
2015-2016
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3 Grade - 2nd 9 Weeks
STEM Focus: A Slick Solution: Cleaning an Oil Spill
ESSENTIAL QUESTION for 2nd 9 Weeks: What are the effects of an oil spill on the habitats of different
organisms in Georgia and how can we reduce the impact of pollution and humans on the environment?
SCIENCE TARGETS
SOCIAL STUDIES TARGETS
TARGET 1: Differentiate between habitats of Georgia (mountains,
marsh/swamp, coast, piedmont, Atlantic Ocean) and
identify the organisms that live there.
TARGET 2: Identify and define features of green plants that allow them
to live and thrive in different regions of Georgia.
TARGET 3: Identify and explain features of animals that allow them to
live and thrive in different regions of Georgia.
TARGET 4: Explain and provide examples of what will happen to an
organism if the habitat is changed.
TARGET 1: Investigate and explain why in the United States there is a
separation of power between branches of government and
levels of government.
TARGET 2: Name and explain the three levels of government (national,
state, local) and the three branches in each (executive,
legislative, judicial), including the names of the legislative
branch (Congress, General Assembly, county commission
or city council).
TARGET 3: Define and state an example of the responsibilities of each
level and branch of government.
TARGET 4: Investigate and discuss the lives of American who expanded
people’s rights and freedoms in a democracy (Mary
McLeod Bethune, Franklin D. Roosevelt and Eleanor
Roosevelt).
TARGET 5: Name and explain social barriers, restrictions, and obstacles
that these historical figures had to overcome and describe
how they overcame them.
TARGET 6: Identify and describe on a political map specific locations
significant to the life and times of these historical figures.
TARGET 7: Investigate and describe how place (physical and human
characteristics had an impact on the lives of these historical
figures.
SOCIAL STUDIES TARGETS CONTINUED
TARGET 8: Describe and give examples how each of these historical
figures adapted to and was influenced by his/her
environment.
TARGET 9: Explain and trace examples of travel and movement of
these historical figures and their ideas across time.
TARGET 10: Identify and describe how the regions in which these
historical figures lived affected their lives and had an
impact on their cultural identification.
TARGET 11: Recognize and describe how the different historical figures
in SS3H2a display positive character traits of cooperation,
diligence, courage, and leadership.
TARGET 12: Explain and determine how the historical figures in S3H2a
used positive character traits to support their beliefs in
liberty, justice, tolerance, and freedom of conscience and
expression.
TARGET 13: Recognize and explain how the historical figures in
SS3H2a chose when to respect and accept authority.
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MATH LEARNING TARGETS
TARGET 1: Interpret quotients and describe how objects are partitioned
equally in groups or as a number of shares.
TARGET 2: Determine the unknown number within 100 in a division or
multiplication equation or word problem.
TARGET 3: Apply properties of operations as strategies to fluently
multiply and divide within 100.
TARGET 4: Solve two step word problems using four operations and
represent the unknown quantity with a letter.
TARGET 5: Identify patterns in the addition or multiplication table and
explain them using properties of operations.
TARGET 6: Generate measurement data by measuring lengths using
rulers marked with whole numbers, halves, and fourths of
an inch and show the data b y marking a line plot.
TARGET 7: Recognize area as an attribute of plane figures and use
different methods to measure area.
TARGET 8: Solve real world problems to determine perimeter of known
and unknown side lengths of polygons.
READING/FOUNDATIONS/ LANGUAGE/WRITING TARGETS
TARGET 1: Determine and clarify the meaning of words and phrases as
they are used in a text distinguishing literal from non-literal
language.
TARGET 2: Distinguish their own point of view from that of the
narrator/characters by writing opinion pieces on topics or
texts while supporting their point of view using the
conventions of grammar.
TARGET 3: In fiction and nonfiction explain how specific aspects of a
text’s illustration contribute to what is conveyed in a
story/text.
TARGET 4: Refer to parts of stories, dramas and poems when writing
or speaking about a text, using terms such as chapter,
scene and stanza; describe how each successive part builds
on earlier sections.
TARGET 5: Recall stories, including fables, folktales and myths from
diverse cultures; determine central message, lesson or moral
and explain how it is conveyed through key details in the
text while comparing/contrasting the themes, settings
and plots.
TARGET 6: Demonstrate proper use of subject- verb/pronoun-antecedent
agreement, capitalization of titles and proper use of commas
in addresses when writing/speaking.
TARGET 7: Use technology to produce and publish writing, interact and
collaborate with others and recall/gather information by
note-taking and sorting evidence using print and digital
resources.
TARGET 8: Determine the meaning of unknown and multiple meaning
words or phrases in grade-appropriate content using context
clues, knowledge of different word parts and through the use
of glossaries or beginning dictionaries (print/digital) for
clarification of word meanings. (3L4; 3L2g; 3L3)