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Skills available for Arkansas third-grade social studies standards

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Civics

C.1 Students will understand the impact of origins, structures, and functions of institutions and laws on society and citizens. This includes personal civic rights, roles, responsibilities, and processes by which laws are made and amended.
- Civic and Political Institutions
  - C.1.3.1 Discuss the origins of the United States' founding documents: Declaration of Independence, U.S. Constitution, Preamble, and Bill of Rights.
    - The Constitution (3-F.5)
    - The Bill of Rights (3-F.6)
  - C.1.3.2 Identify powers of government officials in the three branches of government. Legislative branch makes laws, Executive branch enforces laws, Judicial branch interprets laws.
  - C.1.3.3 Explain the functions and structure of state government.
    - State government (3-F.3)
- Participation and Deliberation
  - C.1.3.4 Investigate origins of state and national symbols, patriotic songs, and mottos: American flag, flag etiquette, Star Spangled Banner, recitation of Pledge of Allegiance, and Arkansas Motto ("Regnat Populus").
    - Identify American symbols (3-G.1)
    - The American flag (3-G.4)
  - C.1.3.5 Compare rights and responsibilities of citizens in different places.
  - C.1.3.6 Use deliberative processes, including listening, discussing, consensus building, and voting, when making decisions and acting upon civic problems.
    - Presidential elections (3-F.8)
- Process, Rules, and Laws
  - C.1.3.7 Describe the processes for creating rules and laws at the local level (e.g., zoning, ordinances).
    - Local government (3-F.2)
  - C.1.3.8 Identify ways people influence rules and laws to improve communities.
  - C.1.3.9 Identify ways local and state communities work together in response to problems.
    - Local government (3-F.2)
    - State government (3-F.3)

Economics

E.1 Students will understand the impact of economic decision-making. This includes the exchange of goods and services; role of producers, consumers, and government in the marketplace; and growth, stability, and interdependence within a global economy.
- Economic Decision-Making
  - E.1.3.1 Discuss how scarcity and opportunity cost influence decision-making.
    - Scarcity and choices (3-H.2)
  - E.1.3.2 Evaluate problems, alternatives, and trade-offs involved in making a decision such as the cost-benefit decision tree.
    - Scarcity and choices (3-H.2)
- Exchange and Markets
  - E.1.3.3 Explain the relationship between knowledge, skills, education, and experience (i.e., human capital) to productivity.
  - E.1.3.4 Identify ways entrepreneurs and businesses organize human, natural, and capital resources to produce goods and services.
  - E.1.3.5 Analyze economic factors in a market including supply, demand, competition, and incentives.
- Growth and Stability
  - E.1.3.6 Explain purpose and functions of money in the United States.
  - E.1.3.7 Explain the purpose (e.g., safeguard assets, offer loans) and functions (e.g., storing money, transferring money, lending money) of banks.
    - Banks (4-T.1)
  - E.1.3.8 Explain the difference between public and private goods and services (e.g., food, clothing, cars).
  - E.1.3.9 Identify factors that affect our economy: unemployment, inflation, printing of money, and availability of skilled workers.
    - Goods and services (3-H.4)
- Global Economy
  - E.1.3.10 Construct explanations that demonstrate the relationships among imports, exports, and global interdependence (e.g., oil, energy, lumber, crops, technology).
  - E.1.3.11 Describe the effects of trade on people in various places such as: increases in economic growth, competition, experience producing for foreign markets, decreases in certain job markets, depletion of natural resources, and outsourcing.

Geography

G.1 Students will understand the purpose of geographic tools (e.g., maps, globes, charts, graphs) to understand, analyze, and explain human interaction with each other and with the environment. This includes the spatial characteristics and patterns of human settlement and connections between global regions.
- Geographic Representations
  - G.1.3.1 Describe the spatial organization of local and global places based upon the relative location, distance, direction, legend, compass rose, and scale on a map.
  - G.1.3.2 Use thematic maps to show the interactions that shape the physical and human characteristics of local and global places.
    - Introduction to Earth's land features (3-B.1)
    - Identify Earth's land features using photographs (3-B.2)
  - G.1.3.3 Create maps to illustrate the physical and human characteristics of a place or region, including titles, symbols, legends, a compass rose, and scale.
- Human-Environment Interaction
  - G.1.3.4 Examine environmental problems and ways in which humans address them.
  - G.1.3.5 Investigate the cultural characteristics of various places and regions from around the world.
  - G.1.3.6 Investigate the influence of physical characteristics upon people's choices in Arkansas and the United States (i.e., where people live and work).
- Spatial Patterns and Movement
  - G.1.3.7 Analyze how natural resources such as metals, sand, stone, soil, freshwater, and wildlife influence human settlement patterns in various geographic regions (e.g., Rocky Mountains, Coastal Plains, Southwest).
  - G.1.3.8 Explain effects of the movement and distribution of people, goods, and ideas on communities using geographic sources such as maps, satellite images, and geospatial technologies.
  - G.1.3.9 Describe various cultural groups and reasons why they settled in Arkansas or the United States (i.e., push-pull factors).
- Global Interconnections
  - G.1.3.10 Trace global connections of raw materials that are used to produce familiar products which may include: diamonds (drilling, polishing), quartz (glass-making, sandpaper), bauxite (aluminum metal), and bromine (pesticides, water treatment).
    - Natural resources (3-H.3)
  - G.1.3.11 Describe ways natural and human-made disasters in one place affect people living in other places (e.g., war and natural disasters affecting food supply).

History

H.1 Students will understand chronology, patterns of continuity, and change over time. This includes the contextualization of historical events and ways people gather, view, construct, and interpret historical evidence.
- Chronology, Change over time, Contextualization
  - H.1.3.1 Create historical narratives using chronological sequences of events across Arkansas and/or the world. Events may include: formation of the thirteen colonies, founding of the United States in 1776, Arkansas statehood, Louisiana Purchase, Civil War, Emancipation Proclamation, Gettysburg Address, invention of the lightbulb, human mastery of flight, Declaration of Human Rights, formation of the United Nations, and discovery of DNA.
  - H.1.3.2 Explain the historical significance of people and events using timelines. People and events may include: historical Arkansans (Colonel Faulkner, Hattie Caraway, Bill Clinton), historical Americans (George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Harriet Tubman, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.), and historical events (the Boston Tea Party, American Revolution, Civil War, Reconstruction).
  - H.1.3.3 Compare life from a specific historical time period to life today noting changes over time (e.g., transportation, jobs, urban growth, population density, natural resources, communication).
  - H.1.3.4 Analyze individuals, groups, and events to understand why their contributions are important to the heritage of the United States and Arkansas: Indigenous peoples such as the Caddo, Quapaw, Osage, and Cherokee, Harriet Tubman, Clara Barton, Rosa Parks, Eleanor Roosevelt, and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
  - H.1.3.5 Investigate relationships of state and national symbols, holidays, and historic places to historical events. Liberty Bell, Fourth of July, Daisy Bates Day, Little Rock Nine, and Little Rock Central High School.
- Perspective, Evidence, Causation
  - H.1.3.6 Identify and explain multiple perspectives in historical narratives.
  - H.1.3.7 Justify answers to compelling questions about a significant historical event or person from Arkansas or the United States using evidence from both primary and secondary sources.
  - H.1.3.8 Discuss the intended audience and purpose of primary and secondary sources.

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Civics

C.1 Students will understand the impact of origins, structures, and functions of institutions and laws on society and citizens. This includes personal civic rights, roles, responsibilities, and processes by which laws are made and amended.

Civic and Political Institutions

C.1.3.1 Discuss the origins of the United States' founding documents: Declaration of Independence, U.S. Constitution, Preamble, and Bill of Rights.

C.1.3.2 Identify powers of government officials in the three branches of government. Legislative branch makes laws, Executive branch enforces laws, Judicial branch interprets laws.

C.1.3.3 Explain the functions and structure of state government.

Participation and Deliberation

C.1.3.4 Investigate origins of state and national symbols, patriotic songs, and mottos: American flag, flag etiquette, Star Spangled Banner, recitation of Pledge of Allegiance, and Arkansas Motto ("Regnat Populus").

C.1.3.5 Compare rights and responsibilities of citizens in different places.

C.1.3.6 Use deliberative processes, including listening, discussing, consensus building, and voting, when making decisions and acting upon civic problems.

Process, Rules, and Laws

C.1.3.7 Describe the processes for creating rules and laws at the local level (e.g., zoning, ordinances).

C.1.3.8 Identify ways people influence rules and laws to improve communities.

C.1.3.9 Identify ways local and state communities work together in response to problems.

Economics

E.1 Students will understand the impact of economic decision-making. This includes the exchange of goods and services; role of producers, consumers, and government in the marketplace; and growth, stability, and interdependence within a global economy.

Economic Decision-Making

E.1.3.1 Discuss how scarcity and opportunity cost influence decision-making.

E.1.3.2 Evaluate problems, alternatives, and trade-offs involved in making a decision such as the cost-benefit decision tree.

Exchange and Markets

E.1.3.3 Explain the relationship between knowledge, skills, education, and experience (i.e., human capital) to productivity.

E.1.3.4 Identify ways entrepreneurs and businesses organize human, natural, and capital resources to produce goods and services.

E.1.3.5 Analyze economic factors in a market including supply, demand, competition, and incentives.

Growth and Stability

E.1.3.6 Explain purpose and functions of money in the United States.

E.1.3.7 Explain the purpose (e.g., safeguard assets, offer loans) and functions (e.g., storing money, transferring money, lending money) of banks.

E.1.3.8 Explain the difference between public and private goods and services (e.g., food, clothing, cars).

E.1.3.9 Identify factors that affect our economy: unemployment, inflation, printing of money, and availability of skilled workers.

Global Economy

E.1.3.10 Construct explanations that demonstrate the relationships among imports, exports, and global interdependence (e.g., oil, energy, lumber, crops, technology).

E.1.3.11 Describe the effects of trade on people in various places such as: increases in economic growth, competition, experience producing for foreign markets, decreases in certain job markets, depletion of natural resources, and outsourcing.

Geography

Geographic Representations

G.1.3.1 Describe the spatial organization of local and global places based upon the relative location, distance, direction, legend, compass rose, and scale on a map.

G.1.3.2 Use thematic maps to show the interactions that shape the physical and human characteristics of local and global places.

G.1.3.3 Create maps to illustrate the physical and human characteristics of a place or region, including titles, symbols, legends, a compass rose, and scale.

Human-Environment Interaction

G.1.3.4 Examine environmental problems and ways in which humans address them.

G.1.3.5 Investigate the cultural characteristics of various places and regions from around the world.

G.1.3.6 Investigate the influence of physical characteristics upon people's choices in Arkansas and the United States (i.e., where people live and work).

Spatial Patterns and Movement

G.1.3.7 Analyze how natural resources such as metals, sand, stone, soil, freshwater, and wildlife influence human settlement patterns in various geographic regions (e.g., Rocky Mountains, Coastal Plains, Southwest).

G.1.3.8 Explain effects of the movement and distribution of people, goods, and ideas on communities using geographic sources such as maps, satellite images, and geospatial technologies.

G.1.3.9 Describe various cultural groups and reasons why they settled in Arkansas or the United States (i.e., push-pull factors).

Global Interconnections

G.1.3.10 Trace global connections of raw materials that are used to produce familiar products which may include: diamonds (drilling, polishing), quartz (glass-making, sandpaper), bauxite (aluminum metal), and bromine (pesticides, water treatment).

G.1.3.11 Describe ways natural and human-made disasters in one place affect people living in other places (e.g., war and natural disasters affecting food supply).

History

H.1 Students will understand chronology, patterns of continuity, and change over time. This includes the contextualization of historical events and ways people gather, view, construct, and interpret historical evidence.

Chronology, Change over time, Contextualization

H.1.3.3 Compare life from a specific historical time period to life today noting changes over time (e.g., transportation, jobs, urban growth, population density, natural resources, communication).

H.1.3.5 Investigate relationships of state and national symbols, holidays, and historic places to historical events. Liberty Bell, Fourth of July, Daisy Bates Day, Little Rock Nine, and Little Rock Central High School.

Perspective, Evidence, Causation

H.1.3.6 Identify and explain multiple perspectives in historical narratives.

H.1.3.7 Justify answers to compelling questions about a significant historical event or person from Arkansas or the United States using evidence from both primary and secondary sources.

H.1.3.8 Discuss the intended audience and purpose of primary and secondary sources.