Geography-3rd Grade

Understand world geography and the effects of geography on society, with an emphasis on the United States. Understand world geography and the effects of geography and religion on society with an emphasis on the United States.

Locate, describe and explain places, regions and features on the Earth. Locate, describe and explain places, regions and features of God’s creation. 

Analyze and explain characteristics and interactions of the Earth’s physical systems. Analyze and explain the moral implications of our interactions with the Earth’s physical systems.

Understand relationships between geographic factors and society. Understand relationships between geographic factors, society and the Church.

Understand the historical significance of geography. Understand the historical significance of geography and the Church.

Locate the community, Illinois, United States, and North America relative to other places on a globe.

Draw a map that shows the location of several landmarks in the community relative to the school/Parish.

Locate places on a map, which has a number/letter grid reference system.

Identify the major elements of a map and explain their use (e.g., title, scale, legend/key, directional indicators).

Draw a sketch map of the community, which shows its physical and human characteristics.

Point out the location of the poles, the equator, and the hemispheres on a globe and/or map.

Locate on a map the origin of Christianity. 

Identify examples in the local community of ways in which the physical environment is harmed by human activities.

Illustrate how people have littered, damaged, or improved a local ecosystem.

Give examples of reducing, reusing, and recycling.

List things damaged by a storm, flood, tornado, or earthquake by using a local media source.

Explain that God gave humankind the Earth and it is their responsibility to take care of it.

Understand that everyone has a moral and ethical obligation to help those affected by disaster. 

Identify how people use tools and machines to obtain resources and change the physical and human environment in their community and in other places.

Classify a list of resources into renewable and nonrenewable; understand that God gave us the resources to use wisely.

Predict where people might choose to live using a map showing rivers, lakes, marshes, plains, and mountains; explain how religion might affect this choice.

Illustrate how technological developments have been used to alter the physical environment of the local community (e.g., of or about automobiles, electricity, and computers by using pictures and stories).

Create a map or draw pictures showing ways that students would like their neighborhood to change in the future; consider moral aspects and Catholic values when planning the changes.

Depict ways students would like their community’s environment to change in the future using maps or images.