Grade 3 Social Studies Hawaii standards Standards

Content Standards

Anchor and Inquiry Standards

Developing Questions and Planning Inquiries

Gathering and Evaluating Sources

Creating Claims

Communicating Conclusions

Taking Informed Action

Construct compelling questions and explain the importance of the questions to self and others

Categorize questions according to the social studies disciplines

Create supporting questions to help answer compelling questions

Explain how supporting questions help answer compelling questions

Determine whether a source is primarily fact or opinion

Determine whether a source is primary or secondary

Gather relevant information from multiple sources that would be helpful in addressing compelling and supporting questions

Develop claims in response to compelling questions

Identify specific evidence that supports the claims

Construct arguments and explanations about classroom, school, or community issues and use relevant reasons to support the arguments

Respectfully ask and answer questions about the reasons others use in their arguments and explanations

Present arguments and explanations using a variety of print, oral, and digital technologies

Identify local, regional, or global problems or issues in various times and places

Explain different ways students could work individually or in collaboration with others (e.g., other students, teachers, community and/or global organizations) to address local, regional, or global problems or issues and predict possible results of their actions

Use deliberative and democratic procedures (e.g., listening, consensus-building, voting) to identify ways to take action about local and/or regional problems or issues

Show evidence of taking individual or group action on one or more problems or issues

Explain the role of money in making exchange easier

Explain how groups have worked to effect change in American society

Describe the relationship between authority and power

Explore how people can change rules and laws, and how these changes affect society

Explain how public goods and services support community needs

Explain the purpose of various government functions

Explain how to be a responsible and active citizen in a democracy

Explain how democratic rights promote equality and opportunity

Analyze how geographical features affect human life in local communities and those around the world

Analyze how cultural practices create and influence communities

Investigate factors that influence why people migrate and where they settle

Compare the ways people, goods, and ideas move from place to place

Analyze connections among historical events using a timeline

Analyze ways the environment of a community changes over time in various world regions

Analyze the effects of disasters on people around the world

Assess the reliability and accuracy of differing historical accounts

Compare ways that people are addressing the issue of limited natural resources