Grade 3

Other Arkansas Social Studies sets

• Grade K
• Grade 1
• Grade 2
• Grade 4
• Grade 5
• Grade 6
• Arkansas History (7-8)
• US History Beginnings through 1850 (Grade 7)
• US History 1850-1930
• United States Government
• World History Since 1450
• African American History
• Arkansas History (9-12)
• Civics (Grades 9, 10, 11, 12)
• Economics
• Psychology
• Sociology
• U.S. History Since 1929
• World Geography

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Identify factors that affect our economy<ul><li>unemployment</li><li>inflation</li><li>printing of money</li><li>availability of skilled workers</li></ul>E.1.3.9

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

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

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.1.3.1

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

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

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

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

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

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.1.3.7

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.1.3.8

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

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

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).G.1.3.11

Create historical narratives using chronological sequences of events across Arkansas and/or the world. Events may include:<ul><li>Formation of the thirteen colonies</li><li>Founding of the United States in 1776</li><li>Arkansas statehood</li><li>Louisiana Purchase</li><li>Civil War</li><li>Emancipation Proclamation</li><li>Gettysburg Address</li><li>Invention of the lightbulb</li><li>Human mastery of flight</li><li>Declaration of Human Rights</li><li>Formation of the United Nations</li><li>Discovery of DNA</li></ul>H.1.3.1

Explain the historical significance of people and events using timelines. People and events may include:<ul><li>Historical Arkansans: Colonel Faulkner, Hattie Caraway, Bill Clinton</li><li>Historical Americans: George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Harriet Tubman, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.</li><li>Historical events: the Boston Tea Party, American Revolution, Civil War, Reconstruction</li></ul>H.1.3.2

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.1.3.3

Analyze individuals, groups, and events to understand why their contributions are important to the heritage of the United States and Arkansas<ul><li>Indigenous peoples such as the Caddo, Quapaw, Osage, and Cherokee</li><li>Harriet Tubman</li><li>Clara Barton</li><li>Rosa Parks</li><li>Eleanor Roosevelt</li><li>Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.</li></ul>H.1.3.4

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

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

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.1.3.7

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