Oklahoma State Standards for Social Studies: Grade 3

OK.1. Social Studies: The student will develop and practice the process skills of social studies.

1.1. Identify, locate, and compare and contrast information found in resources such as encyclopedias, visual images, atlases, maps, globes, and computer-based technologies. 18
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1.2. Examine and use children's literature to compare and contrast his or her own community to other United States and global communities. 29
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OK.2. Social Studies: The student will examine communities from a spatial perspective.

2.1. Distinguish among map symbols (e.g., legend references to land, water, roads, and cities) and demonstrate through mental mapping and understanding of relative location, direction, scale, size and shape. 17
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2.2. Construct simple maps of the seven continents with the essential map elements of title, key, directional indicators, and date. 15
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2.3. Use the equator and prime meridian to identify the four hemispheres. 17
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2.4. Develop skills in locating places across the globe using parallels of latitude and meridians of longitude. 17
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OK.3. Social Studies: The student will analyze the human characteristics of communities.

3.1. Investigate through children's literature (e.g., fables, legends, and historical fiction) the cultural similarities and differences among people in different regions, and how they have changed over time. 109
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3.2. Compare and contrast the ways people in the United States and other communities in other countries use art, music, and stories to communicate (e.g., storytellers, paintings, and folk songs). 129
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3.3. Examine the purposes of government (e.g., providing essential services, and protecting people and property from the actions of others) and identify representative leaders and their roles in the community. 24
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3.4. Examine the rights and responsibilities of individuals in and to their communities, and identify actions people take to cooperate peacefully and achieve common goals. 4
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OK.4. Social Studies: The student will examine the interaction of the environment and the people of a community.

4.1. Name and locate basic types of climate across the globe (e.g., arctic, temperate, and tropical) and describe how they affect the way people live, including their food, shelter, transportation and recreation. 134
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4.2. Locate and distinguish among varying landforms and geographic features (e.g., mountains, plateaus, islands, and oceans). 31
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4.3. Describe how communities depend upon workers with specialized jobs, giving examples of ways in which they contribute to the exchange of goods and services. 32
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4.4. Describe how people affect and change their environments (e.g., farming, building dams, and putting up yard lights). 64
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OK.5. Social Studies: The student will develop basic economic decision-making skills.

5.1. Describe the difference between goods and services; explaining that, at different times and places, people are both consumers and producers of goods and services. 25
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5.2. Explain that limits on resources (scarcity) require people to make choices about producing and consuming goods and services. 25
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5.3. Compare and contrast the differences among human resources (people at work), natural resources (water, soil, wood, coal, etc.) and capital resources (machines, tools, money, etc.) used to produce goods and services. 79
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5.4. Explain the relationship between saving and spending, and describe the value of setting a financial goal and developing a plan to reach it. 2
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