South Dakota

World History: To 60 B.C.E.

• 3.SS.1 Building upon skills learned in previous grades, the student learns the skills to complete the following tasks, completing each task with relative ease by the end of 3rd grade.

  • 3.SS.1.A The student can correctly use terms related to time periods or dates in history, including: decade; century; millennium; 1700s, 1800s, etc.; 1492, 1776, etc.

  • 3.SS.1.B As preparation for study of the American Revolution, but not limited to that study, the student can demonstrate how taxes work using counters, drawings, or mathematics.

  • 3.SS.1.C The student can evaluate a historical event through writing a narrative paragraph.

  • 3.SS.1.D The student can investigate a historical figure through writing an informative paragraph.

• 3.SS.2 The student demonstrates knowledge of American and South Dakota geography.

  • 3.SS.2.A The student locates on a map and describes the features of America's physical geography, including: ocean coastlines, Gulf of Mexico, Hudson River, Appalachian Mountains, Ohio River, Great Lakes, Niagara Falls, Mississippi River, local geography.

    • Introduction to Earth's land features (3-B.1)
    • Identify Earth's land features using photographs (3-B.2)

  • 3.SS.2.B The student locates on a map all fifty states in America.

    • Identify the 50 states (3-D.13)
    • Select the 50 states (3-D.14)

  • 3.SS.2.C The student locates on a map the major regions of the United States, including: New England, The East Coast, The Great Lakes, The Great Plains, The Mid-Atlantic, The Midwest, The Pacific Northwest, The South, The Southwest, The West Coast, Alaska, Hawaii.

    • Identify states of the West (3-D.1)
    • Select states of the West (3-D.2)
    • Identify states of the Midwest (3-D.4)
    • Select states of the Midwest (3-D.5)
    • Identify states of the Southeast (3-D.7)
    • Select states of the Southeast (3-D.8)
    • Identify states of the Northeast (3-D.10)
    • Select states of the Northeast (3-D.11)

  • 3.SS.2.D The student locates New York City and Philadelphia on a map and spells their names correctly.

    • Major U.S. cities (3-C.1)

  • 3.SS.2.E The student locates Washington, D.C. on a map and identifies it as our nation's capital.

    • Major U.S. cities (3-C.1)

  • 3.SS.2.F The student locates South Dakota, Pierre, Rapid City, and Sioux Falls on a map and spells their names correctly.

    • Select states of the Midwest (3-D.5)
    • Name states of the Midwest (3-D.6)

  • 3.SS.2.G The student locates on a map the major reservations in South Dakota.

  • 3.SS.2.H The student locates on a map the following geographic features of South Dakota: Black Hills, Badlands, Bear Butte, Spearfish Canyon, Black Elk Peak, Missouri River, James River, Big Sioux River.

• 3.SS.3 The student demonstrates knowledge of ancient civilizations in Asia, the Middle East, and Northern Africa.

  • Skills covering this topic are not currently available on IXL.

• 3.SS.4 The student demonstrates knowledge of Ancient Greece and the Roman Republic.

  • Skills covering this topic are not currently available on IXL.

American History: 1492-1763

• 3.SS.5 The student demonstrates knowledge of Native Americans and the voyages of Christopher Columbus.

  • Skills covering this topic are not currently available on IXL.

• 3.SS.6 The student demonstrates knowledge of European exploration and settlement of what would become the United States.

  • Skills covering this topic are not currently available on IXL.

• 3.SS.7 The student demonstrates knowledge of colonial America.

  • Skills covering this topic are not currently available on IXL.