West Virginia

Civics

• SS.3.C.1 identify and explain the following commonly-held American democratic values, principles and beliefs.

  • diversity

  • rule of law

  • family values

  • community service

  • justice

  • liberty

• SS.3.C.2 determine the need for government and compare and contrast the following forms: tribal, monarchy, and democracy.

  • Purpose of government (3-E.1)

• SS.3.C.3 investigate significant cultural contributions of various groups creating our multicultural society.

• SS.3.C.4 examine historical conflicts and their resolutions (e.g., conflict between Native Americans and Explorers, Boston Tea Party and Civil Rights Movement).

  • Benjamin Franklin (3-D.1)
  • Paul Revere (3-D.2)
  • Davy Crockett (3-D.4)
  • Abraham Lincoln (3-D.6)
  • Frederick Douglass (3-D.7)
  • Susan B. Anthony (3-D.8)
  • Harriet Tubman (3-D.9)
  • Sitting Bull (3-D.10)
  • Thurgood Marshall (3-D.15)
  • Rosa Parks (3-D.16)
  • Jackie Robinson (3-D.17)
  • Cesar Chavez (3-D.18)
  • Martin Luther King Jr. (3-D.19)

• SS.3.C.5 examine how rights and responsibilities of citizens are reflected in patriotic symbols, songs and holidays of the United States (e.g., the meaning of our flag's colors, the Pledge of Allegiance and the meaning of the words, the National Anthem, Veteran's Day and Memorial Day).

  • Identify American symbols (3-F.1)
  • The American flag (3-F.4)
  • The White House (3-F.5)
  • The Washington Monument (3-F.6)
  • The Lincoln Memorial (3-F.7)
  • The Statue of Liberty (3-F.8)
  • Thanksgiving (3-G.2)

• SS.3.C.6 participate in a local service project and discover the importance of working together and how participation leads to improvement in the lives of individuals, as well as communities.

Economics

• SS.3.E.1 study bank services including checking accounts, savings accounts and borrowing and create a mock budget.

• SS.3.E.2 construct and interpret graphs that illustrate the basic concept of the exchange of goods and services as related to supply and demand and the impact of scarcity of resources.

  • Create and use supply and demand curves (3-I.3)
  • Identify shortage and surplus with graphs (3-I.5)
  • Identify shortage and surplus with data (3-I.6)

• SS.3.E.3 sequence the path of a product from the raw material to the final product.

• SS.3.E.4 use charts, maps and other data sources to correlate occupations with the economy and the available resources of a region (e.g., West Virginia has coal mining; Pennsylvania has steel mills; etc.).

• SS.3.E.5 correlate competition for products with increases in advertising and changes in pricing.

Geography

• SS.3.G.1 use global information systems to compare and contrast various types of maps (e.g., climate, resource, physical, political, road, etc.).

• SS.3.G.2 distinguish between a continent, country, state and capital.

• SS.3.G.3 label maps to demonstrate knowledge of map skills (e.g., label cardinal directions, intermediate directions, borders, continents, oceans, equator, Tropic of Cancer, Tropic of Capricorn, North Pole, South Pole and Prime Meridian).

  • Identify lines of latitude and longitude (4-F.2)

• SS.3.G.4 using a grid system, locate specific points on a map and explain the use of lines of latitude and longitude.

  • Read a letter-number grid (3-A.1)
  • Use a letter-number grid (3-A.2)
  • Identify lines of latitude and longitude (4-F.2)
  • Use lines of latitude and longitude (4-F.3)

• SS.3.G.5 explain the reason time zones were developed, identify the four time zones of North America and calculate the variance in time from one zone to another.

• SS.3.G.6 use a map scale to determine the distance between two given points.

• SS.3.G.7 recognize, define and illustrate world geographic features (e.g., peninsulas, islands, mountains, canyons, plateaus, mesas, harbors, gulfs, rivers, deserts, forests, valleys and plains).

• SS.3.G.8 compare and contrast regions of the United States in regard to plant and animal life, landforms, climate and human interactions with the environment.

• SS.3.G.9 create a legend to identify the path of major explorers and chart those journeys on a world map (e.g., Marco Polo, Christopher Columbus, John Cabot, Hernando Cortes and Sir Walter Raleigh).

• SS.3.G.10 obtain information from appropriate types of maps, globes, charts, graphs and timelines in a research project (e.g., political, physical and historical).

History

• Examine the settlement of North America by Native Americans.

  • SS.3.H.CL1.1 illustrate the spread of the Native American population into the various regions of North America.

  • SS.3.H.CL1.2 determine settlement patterns based on natural resources.

  • SS.3.H.CL1.3 explain how Native American groups adapted to geographic factors of a given region.

  • SS.3.H.CL1.4 compare and contrast the cultures of the different Native American groups (e.g., source of food, clothing, shelter and products used).

  • SS.3.H.CL1.5 make historical inferences by analyzing artifacts and illustrations.

  • SS.3.H.CL1.6 analyze the Native American interactions with others (e.g., other Native American groups, explorers and settlers).

    • Sitting Bull (3-D.10)

• Determine the causes and effects of European exploration.

  • SS.3.H.CL2.1 chronologically organize major explorers and determine the reasons for their journeys (e.g., Marco Polo, Amerigo Vespucci, Christopher Columbus, John Cabot, Hernando Cotes, Balboa, Ponce de Leon, Sir Walter Raleigh, etc.)

  • SS.3.H.CL2.2 investigate the motives for exploration by the various European nations (e.g., England, Spain, France, Portugal, etc.).

  • SS.3.H.CL2.3 determine the information the explorers gained from their journeys.

  • SS.3.H.CL2.4 explain how the explorers travels impacted the Native Americans and the world.

West Virginia History

• SS.3.WV.1 locate counties, county seats and bordering states on a West Virginia Map.

  • Identify states of the Southeast (3-B.7)
  • Select states of the Southeast (3-B.8)
  • Name states of the Southeast (3-B.9)

• SS.3.WV.2 use a grid system to locate natural and man-made items on a map.

• SS.3.WV.3 identify the four physical geographic regions of West Virginia, the major communities and the natural resources found within each region.

• SS.3.WV.4 investigate the nine tourist regions of West Virginia.