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Common Curriculum
Understand the origins, purposes, and functions of U.S. government, including the structure and meaning of the U.S. Constitution.

Content Standard
Understand the purposes of government and the basic constitutional principles of the United States republican form of government.

Benchmark 1 (Grade 3)
SS.03.CG.01 - Identify essential ideas and values expressed in national symbols, heroes, and patriotic songs of the United States.

[|Oregon Standards for Social Sciences] [|National Standards for Social Sciences]

= Resources: = = = Josephine's:
 * **First Thirteen Colonies Maze: **  Many of the values and heroes we now have come from Colonial times. This game test students knowledge about The First Thirteen colonies by using trivia questions. If the student gets an answer wrong they are given a little fact or hint to help them. Click Here  for an Educational Maze about the First Thirteen Colonies.
 * **The Bill of Rights ** : The Bill of Rights highlights America's key values.This game use an interactive interface to have students look for the "missing rights". Students will look around town and click on any one who is enforcing one of the seven original rights.They will then be asked a multiple choice question to clarify what right is being invoked . Click here  for an educational game about the Bill of Rights.

Megan's : <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">I found two Social Studies games that kindergarteners can play to augment what they learned in my lesson plan. The two games are quick and easy online games suited well for younger students.

The first game, US Symbols Matching Game, is the online version of Memory. There are eighteen cards, which means nine pairs of pictures. The teacher may want to play this game with the whole classroom and explain what each symbol means. The symbols of the game include the statue of liberty, white house, flag, bald eagle, and liberty bell.

The next game is a Jigsaw Puzzle of the United States flag. If a student clicks the 'Change Cut' link, they have 35 options of the shape and amount of pieces for the puzzle. The options range from six piece classic cut to 247 piece triangle cut. This game may be played as an award in the classroom. Students may get competitive and a new level will be a puzzle with more pieces. <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;"> Sarah's:

Jamie's: <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">· **<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">Characteristics of the Colonies ** <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;"> Each colony had its own unique characteristics, but historians lump them into groups based on where they were, why they were founded, and what kinds of industry they had: <span style="display: block; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; text-align: center;"> <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">Rhode Island <span style="display: block; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; text-align: center;"> <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">Connecticut <span style="display: block; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; text-align: center;"> <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">Massachusetts <span style="display: block; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; text-align: center;"> <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">New Hampshire ||   || **<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">Middle Colonies ** <span style="display: block; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; text-align: center;"> <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">Delaware <span style="display: block; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; text-align: center;"> <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">Pennsylvania <span style="display: block; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; text-align: center;"> <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">New York <span style="display: block; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; text-align: center;"> <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">New Jersey ||   || **<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">Southern Colonies  ** <span style="display: block; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; text-align: center;"> <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">Maryland <span style="display: block; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; text-align: center;"> <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">Virginia <span style="display: block; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; text-align: center;"> <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">North Carolina <span style="display: block; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; text-align: center;"> <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">South Carolina <span style="display: block; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; text-align: center;"> <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">Georgia || <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;"> · The New England <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 10pt;"> Colonies were largely farming and <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">fishing communities <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 10pt;">. The people made their own clothes and shoes. They grew much of their own food. Crops like corn and wheat grew in large numbers, and much was shipped to England. Foods that didn't grow in America were shipped from England. Boston was the major New England port. <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;"> · The Middle Colonies were part agriculture, part industrial. Wheat and other grains grew on farms in Pennsylvania and New York. Factories in Maryland produced iron, and factories in Pennsylvania produced paper and textiles. Trade with England was plentiful in these colonies as well. · The Southern Colonies <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 10pt;"> were almost entirely agricultural. The main feature was the plantation, a large plot of land that contained a great many acres of farmland and buildings in which lived the people who owned the land and the people who worked the land. (A large part of the workforce was African slaves, who first arrived in 1619.) <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">
 * **<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">New England Colonies **

I also found this link: <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">[] <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">. This link may be a bit complicating and overbearing to younger students but it provides them with adequate material about the Presidents of the United States and the history of the presidency. Dates and other great facts are listed in each essay.

<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Rachel's:
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">Google.com **<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">: This site can be used as a resource for students to search for modern day heroes in society, or to simply look up facts about American history. Some of the activities require the students to look up facts about American symbols or flags around the world. The students can use Google to find examples of either activity requirement.


 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">Youtube.com or Teacher tube: **<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;"> This site can provide videos to prepare the students for the class activity. The video below is a promotional video about the 200th anniversary for the United States.

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