3rd Grade Government Reading Passages and Activities
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This bundle includes activities that match each of the Ohio Social Studies Learning Standards for Third Grade. It covers the following skills and many more: timelines, primary & secondary sources, communities change over time, maps, communities, cultures, laws, rights, and responsibilities, locaPrice $37.99Original Price $53.45Save $15.46
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This resource includes government activities that match Ohio's Learning Standards for Third Grade. It contains introduction slides for each standard and activities for citizens' rights and responsibilities, solving problems for the common good, laws, enforcing laws, and local government. Nothing in the content is Ohio-specific, so it can work for other states if the standards are similar.
The standards included are:
9. Members of local communities have rights and responsibilities. (3 Activities)
10. Individuals make the community a better place by solving problems in a way that promotes the common good. (3 Activities)
11. Laws are rules which apply to all people in a community and describe ways people are expected to behave. Laws promote order and security, provide public services and protect the rights of individuals in the local community. (2 Activities)
12. Governments have the authority to make and enforce laws. (2 Activities)
13. The structure of governments may differ from one community to another. (2 Activities)
This Resource Includes
Reading Passages with Text Dependent Questions:
- Rights and Responsibilities
- Solving Problems for the Common Good
- Laws
- Enforcing Laws
- Local Government
Center Activities
- vocabulary matching activity
Additional Activities
- voting on an issue
- interviewing a community member
- creating a space for concerns in the classroom
- ideas for a morning meeting
- working through solving problems with 5 steps as a class and in groups
- developing a classroom Constitution
- reflecting and discussing the importance of laws
- creating a class book from the book What If Everybody Did That?
Activities are available in PDF or TPT Easel!
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This is part of my Third Grade Social Studies Bundle!
The Resources Below are Included in the Bundle:
History Lessons for Third Grade
Economic Lessons for Third Grade
Geography Lessons for Third Grade
