Third Grade Social Studies

About Grade 3 Social Studies

Grade 3 social studies (3rd grade, ages 8–9) is 40 lessons in 5 units: Community and Citizenship (lessons 1–8), Geography & The World (lessons 9–16), History and Change (lessons 17–24), Economy & Work (lessons 25–32), and finally Projects & Global Action (lessons 33–40), project work that brings the year together. Along the way, children learn to explain what culture is, name the five major milestones in human communication and tell the difference between needs and wants.

Start here: Lesson 1: Roles of Community Leaders is free to open and print. Every other lesson has a free preview of its mini lesson and vocabulary.

Paper first: each lesson is printed before you call your child. You read it once and talk it through, your child does the exercises on paper, and you correct together with the Parent checklist — about 45 minutes at the table. The next day, a 10-minute screen review of the same lesson.