Unit 3:  Settling the Land

This unit focuses on three periods of settlement showing how the people lived from the land and how they changed it.

2.  Molly's Pilgrim  by Barbara Cohen

This read aloud is a modern day pilgrim story which illustrates how, like Pilgrims, people today immigrate to America.

3.  Daily Life in a Covered Wagon  by Paul Erickson    Puffin Books

"Drawing on diaries and letters, and illustrated with photographs of actual objects from the past,  this book explores what life was really like on the wagon trail."

4.  Coming to America The Story of Immigration  by Betsy Maestro    Scholastic Inc.

This book takes a historical look at America as a nation of immigrants tracing immigration from the Ice Age to present day.

2.  The following is a list of some book titles that could be used to tie literature with the social studies standard.  Other titles can be found in Literature for History-Social Science, Kindergarten Through Grade Eight, by the California Department of Education, 1993. 
 Molly's Pilgrim  by Barbara Cohen
This read aloud is a modern day pilgrim story which illustrates how, like Pilgrims, people today immigrate to America.
 Daily Life in a Covered Wagon  by Paul Erickson    Puffin Books
"Drawing on diaries and letters, and illustrated with photographs of actual objects from the past,  this book explores what life was really like on the wagon trail."
 Coming to America The Story of Immigration  by Betsy Maestro    Scholastic Inc.
This book takes a historical look at America as a nation of immigrants tracing immigration from the Ice Age to present day.
How Many Days to America? A Thanksgiving Story  by Eve Bunting   A Trumpet Club Special Edition
This modern day Thanksgiving story follows the immigration of a family to America after fleeing their country full of soldiers and fighting.
If You Traveled West in A Covered Wagon  by Ellen Levine
Scholastic copyright 1986
This book tells you what it was like to be a pioneer and travel west to Oregon in the 1840s.
Wagon Wheels, by Barbara Brenner, harper 1978.
Three boys and their father travel from Kentucky to Kansas.  Their mother dies on the way, and the four of them have to make a home.  Based on a true story.

3.  California Department of Education
Course Models for History-Social Science Aligned To The State Content Standards Grade 3
These documents contain hundreds of pages of lesson plans that are aligned to the third grade standards designed by dozens of teachers and advisors.  Check the Department website 
(www.cde.ca.gov/cilbranch/sca/)
Copies were sent to school districts around California or write to 
John F. Burns, Project Director, History-Social Science Course Models, California Department of Education, Standards and Assessment Division, 721 Capital Mall, 6th Floor, Sacramento, CA 95814, (916)654-6299, E-mail:  jburns@cde.ca.gov

8.  "We the People"   Video Kit with Resource Guide
Houghton Mifflin Social Studies 1999
The " We the People" video tapes contain 18 grade appropriate mini-documentaries on important K-6 Social Studies topics.  Through photography, art, and maps, students will be introduced to major concepts in history, geopgraphy, government, culture, and economics.  These documentaries offer students a compelling visual experience to supplement any Social Studies curriculum.

9.   The Music Connection 3
Silver Burdett Ginn copyright 1995
  Concepts, Unit 2, Lesson 3, pages 20-21
"Boil Them Cabbage Down"  This pioneer song illustrates only one of an American pioneer's  problems that was faced on a wagon trail.
  Concepts, Unit 8, Lesson1, pages 78-79
"Now Let Me Fly"  This musical lesson has an African American connection.
  Concepts  Unit 8, Lesson 5, pages 84-85
"La raspa"  This Mexican folk song is a folk tale from the same land and the lesson includes role playing.
  Themes, Unit 1, Lesson 8, pages 128-129
"Make A Rainbow"  This musical lesson has a cultural connection.
  Themes, Unit 2, Lesson 1, pages 130-131
"American Children"  This song is about diversity and shared hopes.
  Themes, Unit 2, Lesson 9, pages 146-7
"Home on the Range"  This song could be tied into a lesson on buffalo or the work of a cowhand.
  Themes, Unit 5, Lesson 4, pages 186-187
"Follow the Drinkin' Gourd"  This song about the underground railroad can be tied into a literature lesson including the stories The Drinking Gourd by F.N. Monjo and Follow the Drinking Gourd by Jeanette Winter.
  Themes, Unit 5, Lesson 6, pages 190-191
"keep Your Eyes on the Prize"  This is a song from the freedon movement and can be tied into a lesson about Martin Luther King Jr.
  Themes, Unit 6, Lesson 5, pages 200-201
"Come, Ye Thankful People, Come"  This musical lesson has several connections to social studies including Plymouth colony, Thanksgiving, and communities.
 The Play, This Beautiful Land We Share, is a theme musical which consists of a series of songs connected with bits of dialogue, and examines our country and the people who live in it.  The songs contained in this play could be use as part of the play or individually to support any of the third grade social studies standards.  See Themes, Unit 8, pages 224-237.

Houghton Mifflin Social Studies
http://www.eduplace.com/
ss/hmss/3/index.html
This website offers a variety of resources that support and extend Houghton Mifflin Social Studies lessons.

2.  Academy Curricular Exchange Columbia Education Center Social Studies
http://ofcn.org/cyber.serv/academy
/ace/soc/cecsst/cecsst165.html
PURPOSE:  The children find this lesson both interesting and
thought provoking.  They like it because it is a game, and
it is easy.  I like it because it helps show children what
games were like for early Native Americans, how to use the
environment around them, and how to "think on their feet"
and relate to others.  They learn cooperation, which is very
much the "Indian Way".

3.  Academy Curricular Exchange Columbia Education Center Social Studies
http://ofcn.org/cyber.serv/academy/
ace/soc/cecsst/cecsst082.html
OBJECTIVES:  The students will learn about another race of People
and their culture, lifestyle and about the many different and
important contributions they have made to benefit the American
people.

3.  I'm New Here, by Bud Howlett, published by Houghton Mifflin Co.
Use the " From Sea to Shining Sea, Bookshelf II Teacher's Resources" guide pages 21-24 for support lessons to enhance social studies through literature.

4.  Home Place, by Crescent Dreagonwagon, published by Houghton Mifflin Co.
 Use the " From Sea to Shining Sea, Bookshelf II Teacher's Resources" guide pages 17-20 for support lessons to enhance social studies through literature.

5.  Houghton Mifflin Social Studies, Citizenship Simulations
copyright 1999 by Houghton Mifflin Company
This strand of the Houghton Mifflin curriculum contains simulations that can be integrated throughout the program to highlight the civic values strand.  There are twelve cooperative experiences that one could choose from that would meet any of the third grade standards.  See Table of Contents page v.

1.) Students create a class timeline of the major settlement periods of their local community demonstrating the changes in transportation, housing, clothing and jobs. For example: Santa Clara County settlement periods might include the Ohlone Indians, the Spanish Missions, the Spanish Ranchos, the movement West by settlers, the farms and orchards, the growth of cities, and Silicon Valley.

2.) Students in their cooperative groups explore one period of settlement for their local community in terms of the following and prepare a booklet describing their settlement. Each book will be shared orally with the class. The book needs to include chapters on:

1.  Students will list at least two different reasons why people have chosen to immigrate to America.

2.  From Sea to Shining Sea, Assessment Booklet Houghton Mifflin Social Studies
Test for chapters 7-8, pages 25-32.

3.  See your Reading Support Resources portfolio for material that can be used as support lessons, review lessons, and possible assessments for each Houghton Mifflin lesson.

4.   Performance-based assessments are tools that can be used to assess students' ability to think and learn and provide a variety of ways to test their knowledge of a subject.  A variety of these assessments, incorporated in your social studies program, can provide the diversity needed to adjust to students' various learning styles.  The following are suggestions for performance-based activities that teachers can design to fit the assessment needed:  create or analyze a map, write a letter, cartoon clouds-fill in with the appropriate conversation, write a fictional story or legend, make a timeline, write the correct caption under the picture(s), draw a before and after picture, classify vocabulary words into a chart or graph, diary entries, create a bumper sticker, create a newspaper article or advertisement, compare and contrast on a Venn diagram.

5.  Students will write an essay explaining what they know about the Pilgrims' first year in the new world.  They will remember to include:  a description of the new land, the specific time of year they arrived, hardships they faced, the location of the first settlement, who hepled them with their frist crops.

Students write an essay describing three contributions made by early settlers to their local community. The essay needs to include a clear description of the contribution and how it had an impact on life today.

The essay and the group book is to be rated using a scale of I (low) to 4 (excellent). The material and presentation is to be assessed on:

Relevant, accurate information.

Thorough understanding of content.

Insight/creativity. 

Ideas clearly communicated. 

Effective, clear and informative presentation.