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🗺️ 3rd Grade · Social StudiesD2.His.2.3-5Unit 2: Community history

How our community began

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🎯 Objective: Students research the founding of their town or city.

Lesson outline

  1. Local sources.
  2. Timeline.
  3. Share.
  4. Exit: founding date.

Lesson 2 of 4 in this unit. In the Lesson Planner this lesson takes 1–3 class periods depending on your timetable: day 1 introduce & model, then practice, small-group reteach and a quick check.

📐 Standard

D2.His.2.3-5

C3 Framework for Social Studies State Standards (NCSS) — typical US grade-level themes

🏁 Unit goals

  • Describe how the community has changed
  • Use primary sources

✅ Check for understanding

End with the exit ticket in the outline. Sort answers into got it / almost / not yet and start the next lesson with a 5-minute reteach for the “not yets”.

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More lessons in “Community history”

  1. The first people here
  2. How our community began
  3. Primary sources
  4. Changes over time

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