Third Grade

9. Determine the meanings and pronunciations of unknown words by using dictionaries, glossaries, technology and textual features, such as definitional footnotes or sidebars.

Britannica Online

Know Play

Dictionary

Reading Process: Concepts of Print, Comprehension Strategies and Self-Monitoring Strategies

1. Establish a purpose for reading (e.g., to be informed, to follow directions or to be entertained).

Author's Purpose

2. Predict content, events and outcomes by using chapter titles, section headers, illustrations and story topics, and support those predictions with examples from the text.

Making Predictions

Make Predictions

3. Compare and contrast information between texts and across subject areas.

Compare and Contrast Guide

4. Summarize texts, sequencing information accurately and include main ideas and details as appropriate.

Sequence Of Events

Sequence the Story

Sequencing

Mystery Cube

5. Make inferences regarding events and possible outcomes from information in text.

Inference Battleship

Inference

What Can You Infer?

6. Create and use graphic organizers, such as Venn diagrams and webs, to demonstrate comprehension.

Graphic Organizer Maker

Education Place

Literacy Elements Mapping

Create a Venn Diagram

Venn Diagram 3 Circles

7. Answer literal, inferential and evaluative questions to demonstrate comprehension of grade-appropriate print texts and electronic and visual media.

Online Assessment 2003

Online Assessment 2004

Online Assessment 2005

Brainchild Test

Kids Lab

Reading Exercise

Comprehension Stories

8. Monitor own comprehension by adjusting speed to fit the purpose, or by skimming, scanning, reading on or looking back.

9. Use criteria to choose independent reading materials (e.g., personal interest, knowledge of authors and genres or recommendations from others).

10. Independently read books for various purposes (e.g., for enjoyment, for literary experience, to gain information or to perform a task).

Books Online

Reading Applications: Informational, Technical and Persuasive Text

1. Use the table of contents, chapter headings, glossary, index, captions and illustrations to locate information and comprehend texts.

Parts of a Book

Headings

Parts of a Book

Parts of a book Quiz

2. List questions about essential elements (e.g., why, who, where, what, when and how) from informational text and identify answers.

3. Identify and list the important central ideas and supporting details of informational text.

Main Idea Practice

Supporting Details

Main Idea Practice 1

Main Idea Practice 2

Get the Main Idea

Get the Idea

4. Draw conclusions from information in maps, charts, graphs and diagrams.

5. Analyze a set of directions for proper sequencing, clarity and completeness.

Sequencing

Reading Applications: Literary Text

1. Recognize and describe similarities and differences of plot across literary works.

Plot Diagram

Circle Plot

2. Use concrete details from the text to describe characters and setting.

Story Time

Story Elements

3. Retell the plot sequence.

Story Time

Plot Diagram

Circle Plot

4. Identify and explain the defining characteristics of literary forms and genres, including fairy tales, folk tales, poetry, fiction and non-fiction.

Fiction or Non-Fiction

Genres

State and Regional Folktales

5. Explain how an author's choice of words appeals to the senses.

6. Identify stated and implied themes.

7. Describe methods authors use to influence readers' feelings and attitudes (e.g., appeal of characters in a picture book; use of figurative language).

Personification

Figurative Language

Similies and Metaphors

Idoms

Common Terms

Figurative Language Quiz

English and Language Arts - Writing

Writing Processes

1. Generate writing ideas through discussions with others and from printed material.

Writing Prompts With Pictures

Writing Topics

2. Develop a clear main idea for writing.

3. Develop a purpose and audience for writing.

Author's Purpose

A Purpose For Writing

4. Use organizational strategies (e.g., brainstorming, lists, webs and Venn diagrams) to plan writing.

Venn Diagram

Graphic Organizers From Education Place

Webbing Tool

5. Organize writing by providing a simple introduction, body and a clear sense of closure.

Story Map

Webbing Tool

6. Use a wide range of simple, compound and complex sentences.

English Eggs

Sentence Sequencing

Putting Sentence Together

7. Create paragraphs with topic sentences and supporting sentences that are marked by indentation and are linked by transitional words and phrases.

Topic Sentences

Quiz

8. Use language for writing that is different from oral language, mimicking writing style of books when appropriate.

9. Use available technology to compose text.

Magnetic Words

Riddle Interactive

Write Acrostice Poems

Comic Creator

Write a Diamante Poem

Create a Flip Book

Letter Generator

Letter Poem Creator

Postcard Creator

Printing Press

Shape Poems

Stapeless Book

10. Reread and assess writing for clarity, using a variety of methods (e.g., writer's circle or author's chair).

11. Add descriptive words and details and delete extraneous information.

List of Adjectives

Adjectives

12. Rearrange words, sentences and paragraphs to clarify meaning.

13. Use resources and reference materials, including dictionaries, to select more effective vocabulary.

Britannica Online

Know Play

Dictionary

14. Proofread writing and edit to improve conventions (e.g., grammar, spelling, punctuation and capitalization) and identify and correct fragments and run-ons.

Power Proof Reading

Online Writing Assessment

15. Apply tools (e.g., rubric, checklist and feedback) to judge the quality of writing.

Rubistar

16. Rewrite and illustrate writing samples for display and for sharing with others.

Writing Applications

1. Write stories that sequence events and include descriptive details and vivid language to develop characters, setting and plot.

2. Write responses to novels, stories and poems that demonstrate an understanding of the text and support judgments with specific references to the text.

3. Write formal and informal letters (e.g., thank you notes, letters of request) that include relevant information and date, proper salutation, body, closing and signature.

Writing a Friendly Letter

Letter Generator

Postcard Creator

4. Write informational reports that include the main ideas and significant details from the text.

5. Produce informal writings (e.g., messages, journals, note and, poems) for various purposes.

Shape Poems

Letter Poem Creator

Write Acrostice Poems

Note Taker

Write a Diamante Poem

Writing Conventions

1. Write legibly in cursive, spacing letters, words and sentences appropriately.

Zane Blosser Cursive

2. Spell multi-syllabic words correctly.

Fun City

Gator Smash em Game

Fearless Frieda

Look Cover Spell

Spell a Roo

3. Spell all familiar high-frequency words, words with short vowels and common endings correctly.

Letter Bugs

Harcourt Brace Spelling

Space Trash

4. Spell contractions, compounds and homonyms (e.g., hair and hare) correctly.

Contraction Quiz

5. Use correct spelling of words with common suffixes such as -ion, -ment and -ly.

6. Follow common spelling generalizations (e.g., consonant doubling, dropping e and changing y to i).

7. Use resources to check spelling (e.g., a dictionary, spell check).

Dictionary

8. Use end punctuation marks correctly.

Using End Marks

Using Punctuation

Punctuation Paintball

9. Use quotation marks around dialogue, commas in a series and apostrophes in contractions and possessives.

Commas is a Series

Comma Usage

Interactive exercises on using commas - Exercise 1 - Exercise 2 - Exercise 3 - Exercise 4 - Exercise 5

Using Commas

10. Use correct capitalization.

Capitalization

11. Use nouns, verbs and adjectives correctly.

Grammer Gorillas

Using Adjectives

Parts of Speech

Noun Dunk

Parts of Speech

Parts of Speech Quiz

Verb Power

12. Use subjects and verbs that are in agreement.

Simple Subject

13. Use irregular plural nouns.

Irregular Plurals

Irregular Plurals 2

Irregular Plurals of Nouns

14. Use nouns and pronouns that are in agreement.

Pronouns

15. Use past, present and future verb tenses.

2 Bee or Not Too Bee

Tutorial

Past and Present Verb Tense

Verbs

16. Use possessive nouns and pronouns.

Possessive Noun Quiz

Pronouns

Possessive Nouns

17. Use conjunctions.

Conjunctions

Conjunctions Crossword

Conjunctions Quiz

Research

1. Choose a topic for research from a list of questions, assigned topic or personal area of interest.

Choosing a Topic

Science Fair Topics

2. Utilize appropriate searching techniques to gather information from a variety of locations (e.g., classroom, school library, public library or community resources).

School Library

Perry County Library

Infohio

3. Acquire information from multiple sources (e.g., books, magazines, videotapes, CD-ROMs, Web sites) and collect data (e.g., interviews, experiments, observations or surveys) about the topic.

Infohio

Old Farmers Almanac

Facts About the United States

Know Play

Today in History

World Fact Book

4. Identify important information found in the sources and summarize the important findings.

5. Sort relevant information into categories about the topic.

6. Understand the importance of citing sources.

Bibliography Format

Citation Machine

7. Use a variety of communication techniques, including oral, visual, written or multimedia reports, to present information gathered.

Communications: Oral and Visual

1. Ask questions for clarification and explanation, and respond to others' ideas.

2. Identify the main idea, supporting details and purpose of oral presentations and visual media.

Main Idea Practice

3. Identify the difference between facts and opinions in presentations and visual media.

Fact or Opinion Game

Fact or Opinion Game 2

4. Demonstrate an understanding of the rules of the English language.

5. Select language appropriate to purpose and audience.

6. Use clear diction and tone, and adjust volume and tempo to stress important ideas.

7. Adjust speaking content according to the needs of the audience.

8. Deliver informational presentations that:
a. present events or ideas in logical sequence and maintain a clear focus;
b. demonstrate an understanding of the topic;
c. include relevant facts and details from multiple sources to develop topic;
d. organize information, including a clear introduction, body and conclusion;
e. use appropriate visual materials (e.g., diagrams, charts, illustrations) and available technology; and
f. identify sources.

9. Deliver formal and informal descriptive presentations recalling an event or personal experience that convey relevant information and descriptive details.

Math

Number, Number Sense and Operations

1. Identify and generate equivalent forms of whole numbers; e.g., 36, 30 + 6, 9 x 4, 46 - 10, number of inches in a yard.

2. Use place value concepts to represent whole numbers and decimals using numerals, words, expanded notation and physical models. For example:
a. Recognize 100 means "10 tens" as well as a single entity (1 hundred) through physical models and trading games.
b. Describe the multiplicative nature of the number system; e.g., the structure of 3205 as 3 x 1000 plus 2 x 100 plus 5 x 1.
c. Model the size of 1000 in multiple ways; e.g., packaging 1000 objects into 10 boxes of 100, modeling a meter with centimeter and decimeter strips, or gathering 1000 pop-can tabs.
d. Explain the concept of tenths and hundredths using physical models, such as metric pieces, base ten blocks, decimal squares or money.

Falling Leaves

Count By 100

What's Your Name

Decimals Number Line

Big Numbers

Place Value Video

Partioning Numbers

There Must Be Thousands

FreeMathTest - numbers from .10 to .99, numbers from .100 to .999, numbers 10 to 99, numbers 100 to 999, numbers 1000 to 9999

Place Value Topics

I Know That -- Place Values

Reading Three Digits

Base Blocks for Addition and Subtraction

Life Guard

Base Blocks

Identifying Place Value

3. Use mathematical language and symbols to compare and order; e.g., less than, greater than, at most, at least, <, >, =, less than or equal to, greater than or equal to.

Comparing

Alligator Lunch

Comparing Numbers

Less Than Lake Maze

More Than Marsh

One False Move

FreeMathTest - numbers from .10 to .99, numbers from .100 to .999, numbers from 0 to 10, numbers from 10 to 50, numbers from 50 to 100

4. Count money and make change using coins and paper bills to ten dollars.

Spending Spree

Cash Out

Using Money

Math With Money

School Store

Practice Counting Money

Learn to Count Money

Adding Dimes, Nickles and Pennies

Change It

Counting Money

Discovering Coin Values

Let's Go Shopping

Making Change

Money Flash Cards

Counting Money

Money Program

Show Me the Money

The change exchange game-National City

5. Represent fractions and mixed numbers using words, numerals and physical models.

Fishy Fractions

Making Fractions

Fraction Number Line

Fishy Fractions Match

Fractions

Matching Fractions

Fraction Frenzy

Fraction Bar

Fractions Activity

Pizza Party

Flowering Fraction Book

Find Grampy

Shade In

Who Want Pizza

13 Ways to Look at a Half

Naming Fractions

Fractions - Parts of a Whole

Fractions Manipulative

6. Compare and order commonly used fractions and mixed numbers using number lines, models (such as fraction circles or bars), points of reference (such as more or less than 1/2 ), and equivalent forms using physical or visual models.

Comparing Fractions

Fraction Pointer

Fraction Sorter

Comparing Fractions

Sorting Fractions

7. Recognize and use decimal and fraction concepts and notations as related ways of representing parts of a whole or a set; e.g., 3 of 10 marbles are red can also be described as 3/10 and 3 tenths are red.

Matching Game

The Decifractator

8. Model, represent and explain multiplication; e.g., repeated addition, skip counting, rectangular arrays and area model. For example:
a. Use conventional mathematical symbols to write equations for word problems involving multiplication.
b. Understand that, unlike addition and subtraction, the factors in multiplication and division may have different units; e.g., 3 boxes of 5 cookies each.

Multiplication Strategies

Number Line Math

SpinningWheels

Multiplication Mystery

Nine Pattern

Fact Families

Animal Legs

Leon's Math Practice

Mathflash

Skip Counting

Times Table

Table Mountain

9. Model, represent and explain division; e.g., sharing equally, repeated subtraction, rectangular arrays and area model. For example:
a. Translate contextual situations involving division into conventional mathematical symbols.
b. Explain how a remainder may impact an answer in a real-world situation; e.g., 14 cookies being shared by 4 children.

Division Activity

Number Line Math

Leon's Math Practice

Mathflash

Division Machine

10. Explain and use relationships between operations, such as:
a. relate addition and subtraction as inverse operations;
b. relate multiplication and division as inverse operations;
c. relate addition to multiplication (repeated addition);
d. relate subtraction to division (repeated subtraction).

CyberSquad

11. Model and use the commutative and associative properties for addition and multiplication.

Properties of Addition

Multiplication Properties

12. Add and subtract whole numbers with and without regrouping.

Addition Pyramid

Mathblox Game

That's a Fact

Math Dojo

Count on Convict

Base Blocks Addition

Base Blocks Subtraction

Addition Machine

Addition Surprise

Connect Four

Checking Subtraction

CyberChallenge

Spacy Math

Mental Math

13. Demonstrate fluency in multiplication facts through 10 and corresponding division facts.

The Table Trees

Mathblox

Math Dojo

That's a Fact

Mental Math

CyberChallenge

Multiplication Station

ArithmATTACK

Mathflash

14. Multiply and divide 2- and 3-digit numbers by a single-digit number, without remainders for division.

Division Lesson

Multiplication Game

Multiplication

15. Evaluate the reasonableness of computations based upon operations and the numbers involved; e.g., considering relative size, place value and estimates.

Measurement

1. Identify and select appropriate units for measuring:
a. length – miles, kilometers and other units of measure as appropriate;
b. volume (capacity) – gallons;
c. weight – ounces, pounds, grams, or kilograms;
d. temperature – degrees (Fahrenheit or Celsius).

Measurement Movie

Are We There Yet?

Measuring Tools

Teaching Measures

2. Establish personal or common referents to include additional units; e.g., a gallon container of milk; a postage stamp is about a square inch.

3. Tell time to the nearest minute and find elapsed time using a calendar or a clock.

Identifying Time

Stop the Clock

Elapsed Time

A Matter of Time

Analog Clock

Bang on Time

Bedtime Bandits

Clock Wise

Matching Time

Clock Works

The Right Time

Stop The Clock

Travel Time

4. Read thermometers in both Fahrenheit and Celsius scales.

Be a Scientist

Hot Stuff

Thermometer

Temperature Convertor

5. Estimate and measure length, weight and volume (capacity), using metric and U.S. customary units, accurate to the nearest 1/2 or 1/4 unit as appropriate.

Measure It

Estimator

Using a Ruler

The Ruler Game

Fill and Pour

Virtual Ruler

6. Use appropriate measurement tools and techniques to construct a figure or approximate an amount of specified length, weight or volume (capacity); e.g., construct a rectangle with length 2 1/2 inches and width 3 inches, fill a measuring cup to the 3/4 cup mark.

7. Make estimates for perimeter, area and volume using links, tiles, cubes and other models.

Estimator

Shape Explorer

Bucky's Blueprint

Fence Me In

Perimeter Practice

Geometry and Spatial Sense

1. Analyze and describe properties of two-dimensional shapes and three-dimensional objects using terms such as vertex, edge, angle, side and face.

Plantonic Solids

Prisms, Pyramids, Cones and Cylinders

Three Dimensional Review

Anglemania

Shape Space and Measure

Patterns For Solid Figures

Quad Squad

Solid Pieces

2. Identify and describe the relative size of angles with respect to right angles as follows:
a. Use physical models, like straws, to make different sized angles by opening and closing the sides, not by changing the side lengths.
b. Identify, classify and draw right, acute, obtuse and straight angles.

Angles Activity

What's My Angle?

Kinds of Angles

Anglemania

Interactive Angles

Classifying Angles

3. Find and name locations on a labeled grid or coordinate system; e.g., a map or graph.

Simple Coordinates Game

Simple Maze Game

Hurkle

What's the Point

4. Draw lines of symmetry to verify symmetrical two-dimensional shapes.

Ask Hannah

Symmetry

Line Symmetry Video

5. Build a three-dimensional model of an object composed of cubes; e.g., construct a model based on an illustration or actual object.

Patterns, Functions and Algebra

1. Extend multiplicative and growing patterns, and describe the pattern or rule in words.

Number Patterns

Brenda's Border

Christmas Lights

Missing Numbers

Number Cracker

Patterns Video

Spooky Sequence

2. Analyze and replicate arithmetic sequences with and without a calculator.

Online Calculators

Calculator

3. Use patterns to make predictions, identify relationships, and solve problems.

Function Machine

Whole Number Cruncher

Function Machine

Worksheet 1

Worksheet 2

4. Model problem situations using objects, pictures, tables, numbers, letters and other symbols.

Problem Solving

5. Write, solve and explain simple mathematical statements, such as 7 + ? > 8 or ? + 8 = 10.

6. Express mathematical relationships as equations and inequalities.

7. Create tables to record, organize and analyze data to discover patterns and rules.

Function Machine

Whole Number Cruncher

Function Machine

8. Identify and describe quantitative changes, especially those involving addition and subtraction; e.g., the height of water in a glass becoming 1 centimeter lower each week due to evaporation.

Data Analysis and Probability

1. Collect and organize data from an experiment, such as recording and classifying observations or measurements, in response to a question posed.

2. Draw and interpret picture graphs in which a symbol or picture represents more than one object.

Play Ball

Reading Pictographs

3. Read, interpret and construct bar graphs with intervals greater than one.

Interpreting Data

Bar Chart

AmbleGraph

Bar Graphs

Create a Graph

All the Parts

Reading a Bar Graph

Using Bar Graphs

How it all Stacks Up

Bar Graph

4. Support a conclusion or prediction orally and in writing, using information in a table or graph.

5. Match a set of data with a graphical representation of the data.

6. Translate information freely among charts, tables, line plots, picture graphs and bar graphs; e.g., create a bar graph from the information in a chart.

Create a Graph

7. Analyze and interpret information represented on a timeline.

8. Identify the mode of a data set and describe the information it gives about a data set.

Mode Median Mean

9. Conduct a simple experiment or simulation of a simple event, record the results in a chart, table or graph, and use the results to draw conclusions about the likelihood of possible outcomes.

Box Model

Create a Graph

10. Use physical models, pictures, diagrams and lists to solve problems involving possible arrangements or combinations of two to four objects.

Disguise Combos

Science

Earth and Space Sciences

1. Compare distinct properties of rocks (e.g., color, layering, texture).

Rock Hounds

Rock Lesson

Rocks and Soil

The Rock Cycle

2. Observe and investigate that rocks are often found in layers.

Rock Hounds

The Rock Cycle

3. Describe that smaller rocks come from the breakdown of larger rocks through the actions of plants and weather.

The Rock Cycle

4. Observe and describe the composition of soil (e.g., small pieces of rock and decomposed pieces of plants and animals, and products of plants and animals).

The Dirt on Soil

Soil Formation

Ask the Worm

5. Investigate the properties of soil (e.g., color, texture, capacity to retain water, ability to support plant growth).

The Great Plant Escape

Soil Formation

Ask the Worm

6. Investigate that soils are often found in layers and can be different from place to place.

Earth Mover Game

The Dirt on Soil

Ask the Worm

Soil Quiz

Life Sciences

1. Compare the life cycles of different animals including birth to adulthood, reproduction and death (e.g., egg-tadpole-frog, egg-caterpillar-chrysalis-butterfly).

Hams Hall Pond

What is the Order

The Circle of Life

Life Cycle Activity: Click on Activity 2

Life Cycle of a Butterfly

Life Cycles: Scroll Down to Life Cycles

2. Relate animal structures to their specific survival functions (e.g., obtaining food, escaping or hiding from enemies).

Build a Fish

Exploring Ecosystems

Animal Adaptations

Animals on Defense

3. Classify animals according to their characteristics (e.g., body coverings and body structure).

Zoo Logic

Animal Groups

Classifying Critters

4. Use examples to explain that extinct organisms may resemble organisms that are alive today.

5. Observe and explore how fossils provide evidence about animals that lived long ago and the nature of the environment at that time.

Virtual Dinosaur Dig

6. Describe how changes in an organism’s habitat are sometimes beneficial and sometimes harmful.

Exploring Ecosystems

Physical Sciences

1. Describe an objects position by locating it relative to another object or the background.

Edmo and Houdini

2. Describe an objects motion by tracing and measuring its position over time.

3. Identify contact/noncontact forces that affect motion of an object (e.g., gravity, magnetism, collision).

Your Weight on Other Planets

Magnetism Movie

Super Magneto Game

Magnets and Springs

Guide the Lander through Each Mission

4. Predict the changes when an object experiences a force (e.g., a push or pull, weight, friction).

Pushes and Pulls

Forces and Movement

Friction

Science and Technology

1. Describe how technology can extend human abilities (e.g., to move things, to extend senses).

2. Describe ways that using technology can have helpful and/or harmful results.

3. Investigate ways that the results of technology may affect the individual, family and community.

4. Use a simple design process to solve a problem (e.g., identify a problem, identify possible solutions, design a solution).

5. Describe possible solutions to a design problem (e.g., how to hold down paper in the wind).

Scientific Inquiry

1. Select the appropriate tools and use relevant safety procedures to measure and record length and weight in metric and English units.

Measurement Movie

2. Discuss observations and measurements made by other people.

3. Read and interpret simple tables and graphs produced by self/others.

Interpreting Data

Bar Chart

AmbleGraph

Bar Graphs

Create a Graph

All the Parts

Reading a Bar Graph

Using Bar Graphs

How it all Stacks Up

Bar Graph

4. Identify and apply science safety procedures.

Science Safety Quiz to Print Test Answers

5. Record and organize observations (e.g., journals, charts, tables).

Create a Graph

6. Communicate scientific findings to others through a variety of methods (e.g., pictures, written, oral and recorded observations).

Scientific Ways of Knowing

1. Describe different kinds of investigations that scientists use depending on the questions they are trying to answer.

2. Keep records of investigations and observations and do not change the records that are different from someone else's work.

3. Explore through stories how men and women have contributed to the development of science.

4000 Years of Women in Science

4. Identify various careers in science.

Cool Careers in Science

Real Science

5. Discuss how both men and women find science rewarding as a career and in their everyday lives.

Cool Careers in Science

Social Studies

History
1. Define and measure time by years, decades and centuries. Calendar Quiz How We Measure Time How We Measure Time Game
2. Place local historical events in sequential order on a time line. Timeline Generator Timeline
3. Describe changes in the community over time including changes in a. businesses b. architecture c. physical features d. employment e. education f. transportation g. technology h. religion i. recreation Ohio Memory -Perry County Perry County Tourism Perry County Geneological Society Perry County Historical Society Somerset Courthouse Somerset Ohio
People in Societies
1. Compare some of the cultural practices and products of various groups of people who have lived in the local community including a. artistic expression b. religion c. language d. food
2. Compare the cultural practices and products of the local community with those of other communities in Ohio, the United States and countries of the world.
3. Describe settlement patterns of various cultural groups within the local community. Ohio Memory -Perry County
Geography
1. Use political maps, physical maps and aerial photographs to ask and answer questions about the local community.
2. Use a compass rose and cardinal directions to describe the relative location of places. Use Cardinal Directions Compass Rose Printout
3. Read and interpret maps by using the map title, map key, direction indicator and symbols to answer questions about the local community. Types of Maps Learning About Maps Google Maps Maps
4. Use a number/letter grid system to locate physical and human features on a map.
5. Identify the location of the equator, Arctic Circle, Antarctic Circle, North Pole, South Pole, Prime Meridian, the tropics and the hemispheres on maps and globes. Printable Maps Geography Glossary
6. Identify and describe the landforms and climate, vegetation, population and economic characteristics of the local community. Landforms Types of Land
7. Identify ways that physical characteristics of the environment (i.e., landforms, bodies of water, climate and vegetation) affect and have been modified by the local community. Landforms Climate
8. Identify systems of transportation used to move people and products and systems of communication used to move ideas from place to place. Transportation
Economics
1. Define opportunity cost and give an example of the opportunity cost of a personal decision.
2. Identify people who purchase goods and services as consumers and people who make goods or provide services as producers. Supply and Demand Consumers Producers
3. Categorize economic activities as examples of production or consumption.
4. Explain the advantages and disadvantages of specialization and the division of labor to produce items.
5. Identify different forms of money used over time, and recognize that money facilitates the purchase of goods, services and resources and enables savings.
6. Explain how the local community is an example of a market where buyers and sellers exchange goods and services.
7. Identify examples of economic competition in the local community. What is Competition
Government
1. Explain the major functions of local government including a. promoting order and security b. making laws c. settling disputes d. providing public services e. protecting the rights of individuals
2. Explain the structure of local governments and identify local leaders (e.g., township trustees, county commissioners, city council members or mayor). Perry County Government Mayors' of Perry County
3. Identify the location of local government buildings and explain the functions of government that are carried out there.
4. Identify goods and services provided by local government, why people need them and the source of funding (taxation).
5. Define power and authority.
6. Explain why the use of power without legitimate authority is unjust (e.g., bullying, stealing).
Citizenship Rights and Responsibilities
1. Describe how people help to make the community a better place in which to live including a. working to preserve the environment b. helping the homeless c. restoring houses in low-income areas d. supporting education e. planning community events f. starting a business
2. Demonstrate effective citizenship traits including a. civility b. respect for the rights and dignity of each person c. volunteerism d. compromise e. compassion f. persistence in achieving goals g. civic-mindedness
3. Describe the responsibilities of citizenship with emphasis on a. voting b. obeying laws c. respecting the rights of others d. being informed about current issues e. paying taxes Inside the Voting Booth Electing a President
Social Studies Skills and Methods
1. Obtain information about local issues from a variety of sources including a. maps b. photos c. oral histories d. newspapers e. letters f. artifacts g. documents Zanesville Times Recorder Newark Advocate Lancaster Eagle Gazette Ohio Memory
2. Locate information using various parts of a source including a. the table of contents b. title page c. illustrations d. keyword searches Parts of a Book Headings Parts of a Book Parts of a book Quiz
3. Identify possible cause and effect relationships.
4. Read and interpret pictographs, bar graphs and charts. Bar Graphs Interpreting Data Bar Chart AmbleGraph Bar Graphs Create a Graph All the Parts Reading a Bar Graph Using Bar Graphs How it all Stacks Up Bar Graph
5. Communicate information using pictographs and bar graphs. Create a Graph
6. Use a problem-solving/decision-making process which includes a. identifying a problem b. gathering information c. listing and considering options d. considering advantages and disadvantages of options e. choosing and implementing a solution

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