Alabama State Standards for Social Studies: Grade 3

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AL.3. People, Places, and Regions: Geographic Studies: Students in Grade 3 learn from concrete experiences and benefit from resources such as pictures, graphs, maps, globes, and the World Wide Web (WWW) that help make abstractions more concrete.

1.1. Geography: Locate the prime meridian, equator, tropic of Capricorn, tropic of Cancer, international date line, and lines of latitude and longitude on maps and globes. 14
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1.2. Geography/History: Describe physical characteristics, including landforms, bodies of water, soil, and vegetation of various places on Earth. 29
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1.3. Geography: Identify the components of various ecosystems. 66
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1.4. Economics/Geography/History: Locate population shifts due to geographic, economic, and historic changes in the Western Hemisphere. 7
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1.5. Economics/Geography: Identify national and international trading patterns of the United States. 1
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1.6. Economics/Geography/Political Science: Identify conflicts involving use of land, economic competition for scarce resources, different political views, boundary disputes, and cultural differences within and between different geographic areas. 6
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1.7. Economics/Geography: Describe the relationship between the locations of resources and patterns of population distribution in the Western Hemisphere. 5
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1.8. Economics/Geography/Political Science: Identify the geographic links of land regions, river systems, and interstate highways between Alabama and other states. 6
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1.9. Geography: Identify ways to prepare for natural disasters in the United States. 43
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1.10. Geography: Describe characteristics and migration patterns of human populations in the Western Hemisphere. 10
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1.11. Geography/History: Identify significant historical sites in Alabama, including locations of civil rights activities. 2
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