3rd Grade Social Studies Web Sites
1.
Map Skills | WebSites |
| Locate the prime meridian, equator, tropic of Capricorn, tropic of Cancer, international date line, and lines of latitude and longitude on maps and globes
| |
Use cardinal and intermediate directions to find a location on a map or globe.
| |
Use simple grid lines.
| |
Measure distance between two locations using a scale of miles
|
|
Locate physical and human features on a map using labels, symbols, and legends.
| |
Identify limitations of maps.
|
2.
Ohysical Characteristics | WebSites |
| Describe physical characteristics, including landforms, bodies of water, soil, and vegetation of various places on Earth.
| |
Locate countries in the Western Hemisphere.
| |
Locate historical landmarks on maps.
| |
| Identify processes of Earth, including continental drift, erosion, natural hazards, weather, and climate.
|
|
3.
Ecosystems | WebSites |
| Identify components of various ecosystems.
| |
Identify ways in which humans alter the physical environment.
|
4.
Population Shifts | WebSites |
| Locate population shifts due to geographic, economic, and historic changes in the Western Hemisphere.
| |
Identify human and physical criteria used to define regions.
|
5.
Trading | WebSites |
| Identify national and international trading patterns of the United States.
| |
Tell the difference between producers and consumers and imports and exports |
6.
Conflicts | WebSites |
| Identify conflicts over the use of land, economic competition for scarce resources, different political views, boundary disputes, and cultural differences within and between different geographic areas.
| |
Identify examples of cooperation within and between different geographic areas.
| |
Locate areas of political conflict on maps and globes.
| |
| Explain different viewpoints on contemporary issues at the local, state, national, and international levels. |
|
7.
Resources | WebSites |
| Describe the relationship between locations of resources and places where people live in the Western Hemisphere.
| |
| Locate major natural resources and deposits throughout Alabama, the United States, and the Western Hemisphere.
| |
| Describe present-day machines and the historical use of human labor to harvest natural resources.
| |
| Evaluate the geographic impact of using major energy and technological resources in the twenty-first century. |
|
8.
Geography | WebSites |
Identify geographic links of land regions, river systems, and interstate highways between Alabama and other states.
| |
Locating the five geographic regions of Alabama.
| |
Comparing laws that pertain to citizens of the United States, including pollution laws, highway speed limit laws, seat belt laws, and interstate trade laws
| |
Describing cultural, political, and economic characteristics of people in the Western Hemisphere |
|
9.
Natural Disasters | WebSites |
| Identify how to prepare for natural disasters in the United States |
10.
Human Populations | WebSites |
| Describe characteristics and migration patterns of human populations in the Western Hemisphere |
11.
Alabama | WebSites | |
| Identify significant historical sites in Alabama, including locations of civil rights activities. | ||