History-3rd Grade

Understand events, trends, individuals and movements shaping the history of Illinois, the United States and other Nations. Understand religious events, trends, individuals and movements shaping the history of the United States, other Nations and the Church. 

Apply the skills of historical analysis and interpretation. Apply the skills of historical analysis and interpretation to religious events, trends and Church individuals and movements. Relate that Jesus, as God incarnate, existed in history just like we do. CSIS2 Describe how reading history is a way we can learn about what God does for humanity. CSIS3

Understand the development of significant political events (United States/World). Understand the development of significant Church or religious events. Explain the history of the Catholic Church and its impact in human events. CSIS4 Exhibit knowledge of essential dates, persons, places and facts, especially those relevant to the western traditions. CSIS

Understand the development of economic systems (United States/World). Understand how moral or religious thought contributed to the development of economic systems. Explain how one’s beliefs about God, about humanity, and about material things, affect one’s actions. CSIS7 Discuss how history can assist man in the acquisition of values and virtues. CSIS12

Understand Illinois, United States, and world social history (United States/World). Understand social history of Church, Illinois, United States, and world. Demonstrate an understanding about great figures of history by examining their lives for examples of virtue. CSGS2 Value the significance and impact of the Catholic Church throughout history. CSDS5

Understand Illinois, United States, and world environmental history (United States/World). Understand how Church belief regarding creation and God’s providence shape history of United States and the world. Demonstrate a general understanding of the “story” of humanity from creation to present through a Catholic concept of the world and man. CSGS1 Relate how history begins and ends in God and how history has a religious dimension. CSIS1

Construct a timeline for a given period and place a series of events at their proper location on timeline, incorporate Catholic history.

List the important details contained in an image of life in the past.

Draw a general conclusion about life during a specific period in a specific region or place using a combination of historical sources (e.g., images, artifacts, texts including a Bible).

List places to look for sources of information about the past.

Tell why the location of where an event occurred helps to explain why and how it happened.

Arrange a series of events in U.S. and/or world history in chronological order.

Place significant religious events on a timeline. 

Describe key events in the life of a significant political figure or group from the past.

Describe key events in the life of saints and religious leaders from the past.

Tell how past people and events influence life today.

Compare how people in a specific place or region in an earlier period made a living with how people make a living today.

Describe how changes in the economic choices in the past affected a society and its environment and political life.

Talk about choices people made in the past that were based on religion.

Explain how the changes in the ways people made a living have influence modern society. 

Compare family life of the past with family life today.

Tell about the origin of a family or community tradition or custom. 

Compare traditions and cultures of the past with those of the present.

Compare religious practices of the past with those of today.

Describe important people, events, and organizations that influenced social history.

Describe important Catholic traditions. 

Tell how people, goods, and services moved from one place or geographic region to another in the past.

Identify major crops that sustained people in U.S. or world.

Tell why the knowledge of geography is necessary to understanding of history of people in a place or region. 

Analyze a graph or chart containing data that shows changes in aspects of the physical environment over time.

Find on a map the locations of Biblical events.