2.  From Sea to Shining Sea
Houghton Mifflin Social Studies, Third grade, copyright 1999
Unit 4, Chapters 12, Pages 248-267
State and national holidays and national symbols are the topics of chapter 12.

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

4.  "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.

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.

6.  The following is a list of some book titles that could be used to tie literature with the social studies standards.  Other titles can be found in Literature for History-Social Science, Kindergarten Through Grade Eight, by the California Department of Education, 1993.
Miss Liberty:  First Lady of the World, by June Behrens, Children's Press, 1986.
Color photos and other visual elements illustrate this easy-to-read book. 
Will You Sign Here, John Hancock?, by Jean Fritz, Coward, 1976
This book provides an affectionate look at a flamboyant, egocentric, but kindly patriot and presents a most enjoyable view of history.
Meet Martin Luther King, Jr., by James T. de Kay, Random, 1969.
One of the biographies in the Step Up series, which contain biographies of other notable people.
My First Fourth of July Book, by Harriet Hodgson, Children's Press, 1987.
This is a collection of poems about traditional celebrations of America's independence.  The poems describe picnics, fireworks, and bicycle parades.

7.  The Music Connection 3
Silver Burdett Ginn copyright 1995
  Theme, unit 1, Lesson 6, pages 124-125
"We Come to Greet You in Peace"  This musical lesson includes literture and can be used to celebrate United Nations Day.
  The following patriotic songs could be incorporated into any class to support any social studies standard or lessons on patriotism and the development of our country:
  Themes, Unit 2, Lesson 11, pages 150-151
"Yankee Doodle"
  Themes, Unit 5, Lessons 1, 2, and 3, pages182-185
"The Star-Spangled Banner", "America", "America, the Beautiful"
  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.

Three Ring Government
http://genxtvland.
simplenet.com/
SchoolHouseRock/
song.hts?lo+threering
Description: Sing along with America Rocks as you learn about how the three branches of government work together in the U.S.
Comments: This site requires sound and video capability in order to get the full benefit.
Resource Type: Sound or Music
Graphics Content: High
 

City Services: Modesto
http://www.ci.
modesto.ca.us/
Description: Here is a list of the types of services provided by cities. Click on the topic to find a brief description of what is done by each department of city goevernment. Though the city is Modesto, many of the same services are provided by local government everywhere.
Resource Type: Mix of Text and Graphics
Graphics Content: High
 

I'm Just a Bill
http://genxtvland.
simplenet.com/
SchoolHouseRock/
song.hts?lo+bill
Description: Sing along with America Rocks as you learn about how a bill becomes a law in the United States.
Comments: This site requires sound and video capability in order to get the full benefit.
Resource Type: Sound or Music
Graphics Content: High
 

How Ideas Become Laws
http://www.assembly.
ca.gov/kids/kids1/
kids1.htm
Description: Students learn the steps in turning ideas into laws as they as they become active participants in the process. This site is brought to you by the California Assembly.
Resource Type: Mix of Text and Graphics
Graphics Content: High
 

Benjamin Franklin
http://sln.fi.edu/franklin/
inventor/inventor.html
Description: This site is a short biography of Ben Franklin and has links to sites that deal with his inventions and discoveries.
Resource Type: Mix of Text and Graphics
Graphics Content: High
 

Betsy Ross Homepage
http://libertynet.org/
~iha/betsy/index.html
Description: This site has the story of Betsy Ross with a tour of her house and history of the U.S. flag.
Resource Type: Mix of Text and Graphics
 

George Washington
http://www.history.org/
people/washhdr.htm
Description: A George Washington biography, a description of his time in Williamsburg, and an excerpt from the book Duel in the Wilderness.
Resource Type: Mix of Text and Graphics
Graphics Content: High
 

George Washington
http://www.whitehouse.gov/
WH/glimpse/presidents/
html/gw1.html
Description: This is a short, two page biography of George Washington.
Resource Type: Mix of Text and Graphics
Graphics Content: High
 

Go West Across America with Lewis and Clark
http://www.national
geographic.com/
features/97/west/
main.html
Description: This is an interactive online simulation that permits children to take the trip with Lewis and Clark. It includes simple animations, excerpts from the actual journals, and places where the participant must make a decision about what to do next.
Resource Type: Mix of Text and Graphics
Graphics Content: High

2.  We the People, by Peter Spier, published Houghton Mifflin Co.
Use the "From Sea to Shining Sea , Bookshelf II, Teacher's Resources"  guide pages 29-32 for support lessons to enrich the social studies curriculum through literature.

Community Justice
http://www.teacherlink.
usu.edu/resources/
ed_lesson_plans/
socjust/JUSTICE.HTM
This six activity unit helps students to understand how the police and courts work to protect people's rights. Students talk to police officers and visit a court. Finally they do a mock trial of Gold E. Locks for their parents.
Author: Thomas L. McFarland
 

Why Do We Need Authority?
http://www.civiced.org/
fod_elem_auth02_sb.html
Learn why authority in society is important and some uses of authority. Examine a situation in which there is no effective authority and identify problems which the lack of authority creates. Note: This lesson will take teacher support but the concept is accessible and interesting to young students.
Author: Foundations of Democracy
 

Plymouth Plantation
http://score.rims.k12.ca.us/
activity/plymouth/index.html
This activity is designed to enable elementary students to gain an understanding of how early Americans lived. This activity features a virtual tour of the Plymouth plantation as well as map work and letter writing. 
Author: Linda M. Ricchiuti - CTAP Curriculum Specialist
 

President's Day Web Museum
http://score.rims.k12.ca.us/
activity/presidentsday/
Why do Americans have a holiday to celebrate Presidents Linclon and Washington? Find out what these famous men did and decide for yourself if we should remember their birthdays each year.
 

Abraham Lincoln: Early Life
http://encarta.msn.com/
alexandria/templates/l
essonFull.asp?page=
898&lvstart=K&lvend=
12&majorsubject=
Social+Studies&
minorsubject=
History&source=
%2D99&keyword=
&search=1
Using literature and the web, learn about the life of Abraham Lincoln. Do a treasure hunt and visit a slide show about pioneer life when Lincoln was a young man. 
Author: Tammy Payton
 

Abraham Lincoln: President and Leader During the Civil War
http://ericir.syr.edu/Virtual/
Lessons/crossroads/sec3/
k2/unit6/u6g1l1.htm
This lesson supports Adler's Picture Book of Abraham Lincoln. Students can choose from a wealth of activities to learn key history-social science concepts.
 

Ben and Me
http://www.sdcoe.k12.ca.us/
score/ben/bentg.html
Students will visit the site "Benjamin Franklin: Glimpses of the Man" and learn about his long life and varied talents. They will explore links to information about his fame as a scientist, an inventor, a statesman, a printer, a philosopher, a musician and an economist. Students will select four areas of his life to investigate and draw a cluster to record their findings.
Author: Linda Scott
 

Deborah Sampson
http://www.teacherlink.usu.edu/
resources/ed_lesson_plans/
famous/sampson.htm
Learn about the courage of Deborah Sampson during the American Revolution. Do a picture timeline and a mock interview.
Author: Lora Barney
 

Harriet Tubman: Famous Person Mini-Unit
http://www.teacherlink.usu.edu
/resources/ed_lesson_plans/
famous/tubman.html
A woman with tremendous courage, strong as a man, and cunning as a fox was Harriet Tubman. She was unable to read or write and yet Harriet made 19 journeys back to the Southern States to help free over 300 slaves, moving them to the Northern States and Canada. Harriet chose a dangerous way of life. Working with the Underground Railroad gave her popularity that angered slave owners but gave inspiration to slaves. During this time, the United States was close to war over the issue of slavery and Harriet was ready to help the Northern States in any way she could. Her vision was to give freedom to every black slave.
Author: Bruce Helgeson
 
 

Harriet Tubman: Guide to Freedom
http://www.sdcoe.k12.ca.us/
score/tub/tubtg.html
In this SCORE Language Arts Cyberguide, students read Harriet Tubman by Ann Petry and then visit the Internet to gather information about Tubman. After reading, the students create an acrostic poem using either Harriet Tubman or descriptive words that characterize her. Students the create a timeline that includes Tubman's birth and death with five life events in between. Students also write five other details of Harriet's life along with five quotes from their reading.
Author: Cathy Scholte
 
 

Sacajawea
http://www.teacherlink.usu.edu/
resources/ed_lesson_plans/
famous/sacajawe.html
Although no two accounts of her life are the same, Sacajawea is famed as a courageous woman who played an important part of the settling of the West. Learn about her courage and ingenuity and then map the way that she led Lewis and Clark across America. 
Author: Melissa Horrocks
 
 

Sweet Clara and the Freedom Quilt
http://www.mcps.k12.md.us/
curriculum/socialstd/grade5/
Sweet_Clara.html
This lesson is based on a true, little-known chapter in African American history retold by Deborah Hopkinson. As a seamstress in the Big House, Clara knows she's better off than the slaves who work the fields. But slavery has separated Clara from her mother, and she can never be happy. Clara dreams that they will be reunited one day and run away together - north to freedom. She sees how to use the cloth in her scrap bag to sew a map of the land - a freedom quilt - that no master will ever suspect is a map to freedom. To access this lesson, click on "return to Social Studies Overview page" and then on "Economics and Geography Lessons for 32 Children's Books." Select the title from the list.
Author: Patricia King Robeson
 
 

Three Young Pilgrims
http://www.teacherlink.usu.edu/
resources/ed_lesson_plans/
socst/Brower.html
This literature-enriched unit can be used in classes without classroom Internet hook-up. Students learn about the everyday life of Pilgrims, their trip to America, and how they settled Plymouth.
Author: Michelle Brower

2.  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.

3.   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.

Students will determine the reasons for rules, laws, and the U.S. Constitution; the role of citizenship in the promotion of rules and laws; and the consequences for people who violate rules and
laws.