Massachusetts Our Cities and Towns

 Grade 3   

History

Overarching Questions: Why does the past matter?   What is history?

Essential Questions

What evidence is there that Native Americans lived in all areas of Massachusetts?

How did Native Americans adapt to different environments?

How did Native Americans help settlers face the challenges of adapting to the New World?

What political, economic, and military developments led to the American Revolution?

Why are the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and the Bill of Rights key American documents?

How do events in different time periods impact current practice?

 

 

Enduring Understandings

MA History/ Social  Studies  Curriculum Framework 2003

 

SAMPLE Assessments

Learning Experiences

Native Americans were the first people who lived in all areas of Massachusetts.

 

Native Americans adapted to different environments.

 

Native Americans helped people face the challenges of adapting to the new world.

 

The people from Massachusetts came from many different places for many different reasons. (Puritans/Pilgrims)

 

Many people in Massachusetts contributed to the development of the state.

 

What you do today is the history of tomorrow.

 

Many political, economic, and military developments led to the American Revolution.

 

The Declaration of Independence, The Constitution, and The Bill of Rights are key American documents

 

Environment affects the way people live.

 

 

Learning Standards:

Explain the meaning of time periods or dates in historical narratives (decade, century, 1600s 1776) and use them correctly in speaking and writing.

 

Observe visual sources such as historic paintings, photographs, or illustrations that accompany historical narratives, and describe details such as clothing, setting, or action.

 

Observe and describe local or regional historic artifacts and sites and generate questions about their function, construction, and significance.

 

Describe the difference between a contemporary map of their city or town and the map of their city or town in the 18th, 19th, or early 20th century.

 

Identify the Wampanoags and their leaders at the time the pilgrims arrived, and describe their way of life.

 

 

Continued…..

 

 

MA History/ Social  Studies  Curriculum Framework 2003

Continued

 

Identify who the Pilgrims were and explain why they left Europe to seek religious freedom; describe their journey and their early years in the Plymouth Colony.

 

Explain how the Puritans and Pilgrims differed and identify early leaders in Massachusetts.

 

Describe the daily life, education, and work of the Puritans in the Massachusetts Bay Colony.

 

Explain important political, economic, and military developments leading to and during the American Revolution.

 

After reading a biography of a person from Massachusetts summarize the person’s life and achievements.

 

Identify historic buildings, monuments, or sites in the area and explain their purpose and significance.

 

Identify when the students’ own town or city was founded, and describe the different groups of people who have settled in the community since its founding.

Explain how objects or artifacts of everyday life in the past tell us how ordinary people lived and how everyday life has changed.  Draw on the services of the local historical society and local museums as needed.

 



Resource:  Massachusetts Our Home

(Gibbs Smith Publisher 2002)

 

Assessments:

21st Century Activity (pg 6 guidebook)

 

Write a story (pg 38 guidebook) and or personal family artifacts , or pg 104 in book

Take chapter 3 test (pg 41 in guide)

Or Activity on pg 40 in guide

 

Then and Now pg. 39 in Guide

 

 Imagine you are coming to this country and what your new life will be like.  Write and illustrate a story about your hopes, fears, changes. Pg 63 in book

 

Learn Helping Hurting each other pg 61 guide

 

Understanding the Main Idea pg 69 guide

 

Compare/Contrast Venn Diagram of Pilgrims and Puritans

 

Activity pg 105 book

Put your words to work pg 68

What Do you think? Pg 112