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🗺️ 3rd Grade · Social StudiesD2.Geo.4.3-5Unit 1: Our community & its geography

Why communities grow where they do

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🎯 Objective: Students explain why settlements start near water and resources.

Lesson outline

  1. Map analysis.
  2. Discuss.
  3. Write.
  4. Exit: one reason.

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.Geo.4.3-5

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

🏁 Unit goals

  • Use maps to describe a community’s location and features
  • Explain how geography shapes a community

✅ 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 “Our community & its geography”

  1. Maps and scale
  2. Why communities grow where they do
  3. Our state on the map
  4. Communities around the world

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