Hands-On Social Studies for Ontario, Grade 3 An Inquiry Approach By Jennifer E. Lawson Series: Hands-On Social Studies for Ontario Imprint: Portage & Main Press Categories: Education, Social Science, Elementary, Evaluation Show edition details Softcover, coil bound : 9781553795131, 265 pages, July 2014 Ebook (PDF) : 9781553799528, 265 pages, June 2021 Softcover, coil bound $145.00 Ebook (PDF) $116.00 View Table of Contents Download Digital Resources Read Excerpt Share: Table of contents Introduction to Hands-On Social Studies, Grade 3 1 Program Introduction 2 What Is Social Studies? 2 The Goals of Social Studies 2 The Inquiry Approach to Social Studies 2 Hands-On Social Studies Concepts and Expectations 3 Overall Expectations 3 Concepts of Social Studies Thinking 3 Big Ideas 3 Specific Expectations 3 Hands-On Social Studies Program Principles 3 Program Implementation 4 Program Resources 4 Introduction to the Unit 4 Lessons 5 Accommodating Diverse Learners 6 Classroom Environment 6 Planning Units (Time Lines) 7 Classroom Management 7 Social Studies Skills: Guidelines for Teachers 7 Communication 7 Research 11 Hands-On Social Studies Assessment Plan 12 The Hands-On Social Studies Assessment Plan 12 Assessment for Learning 13 Assessment as Learning 13 Assessment of Learning 14 Performance Assessment 14 Portfolios 15 Summative Achievement Levels 15 Important Note for Teachers 15 References 15 Social Studies Achievement Chart 16 Assessment Blackline Masters 18 Strand A: Heritage and Identity Unit 3A: Communities in Canada, 1780–1850 27 Unit Overview 28 Curricular Expectations 29 Concepts of Social Studies Thinking: Success Criteria 31 Cross-Curricular Connections 32 Books for Students 33 Websites 36 Introduction to the Unit 37 1 Launching the Unit: Communities in Canada from 1780 to 1850 39 2 Introducing First Nations Peoples 45 3 Upper Canada and Lower Canada 55 4 Climate, Landscape, and Settlement 64 5 Settlers and the Land 69 6 Interactions Between the Early Communities in Canada 74 7 Comparing Settlement Groups and Their Challenges 82 8 The Underground Railroad 88 9 Investigating Women’s Lives in Upper Canada and Lower Canada 93 10 Needs and Wants: Past and Present 99 11 Comparing the Lives of First Nations and Settler Children to Present-Day Children 108 12 In a Character’s Life 119 13 Canadian Identity 121 14 Investigating Artifacts 126 15 Culminating Activity: Researching Artifacts 138 References for Teachers 144 Strand B: People and Environments Unit 3B: Living and Working in Ontario 145 Unit Overview 146 Curricular Expectations 147 Concepts of Social Studies Thinking: Success Criteria 149 Cross-Curricular Connections 150 Books for Students 151 Websites 153 Introduction to the Unit 155 1 Launching the Unit: Natural Environments in Ontario 157 2 Mapping Skills 168 3 Natural Resources 173 4 Land Use 183 5 How Land Use Is Related to Human Wants and Needs 192 6 Jobs in Ontario 196 7 Where People Live in Ontario 199 8 Ontario’s Landform Regions 203 9 First Nations Communities in Ontario 211 10 Representing Ontario 218 11 Satellite Images 221 12 Ontario Forests 226 13 Environmental Issues 232 14 Ontario’s Provincial Parks 239 15 Culminating Activity: Representing Ontario’s Landform Regions 245 References for Teachers 251Appendix: Image Banks 253About the Contributors 265 Related Media A custom-written social studies resource for Ontario's grade 3 curriculum. Description Filled with a year’s worth of classroom-tested hands-on, minds-on activities, this resource conveniently includes everything both teachers and students need. The grade 3 book is divided into two units: Communities in Canada, 1780–1850Living and Working in OntarioSTAND-OUT FEATURES focuses on the goals of the Ontario Social Studies curriculum adheres to the Growing Success document for assessment, evaluating, and reporting in Ontario schools builds understanding of Indigenous knowledge and perspectives TIME-SAVING, COST-EFFECTIVE FEATURES includes the five components of the inquiry model opportunities for self-reflection and activating prior knowledge authentic assessment for, as, and of learning social studies thinking concepts, guided inquiry questions, and learning goals support for developing historical thinking skills access to digital image banks and digital reproducibles (Find download instructions in the Appendix of the book)