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3rd Grade Social Studies Curriculum – Art, Culture, Science, & Technology – TEKS

Unit 10 of the Smart and Simple Social Studies Communities Guided Curriculum is about Artists, Writers, Science, and Technology. The main topic of this unit is designed to help upper elementary students understand characteristics and examples of historical and modern writers, artists, scientists, and inventors and what they contributed to culture and communities.

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Are you an upper elementary teacher looking to find a quality TEKS-aligned resource that targets famous artists, scientists, writers, and inventors in communities? Looking for minimal-prep and engaging lessons and activities to teach social studies concepts to your 3rd grade students? Look no further!

 

Unit 10 of the Smart and Simple Social Studies Communities Guided Curriculum is about Artists, Writers, Science, and Technology. The main topic of this unit is designed to help upper elementary students understand characteristics and examples of historical and modern writers, artists, scientists, and inventors and what they contributed to culture and communities. Students will also learn about key inventions that have impacted communities in the past and present.

 

This 4-week unit includes lesson plans, guided notes, practice activities, exit tickets, a project, unit assessment, and more. Each lesson includes slideshows in both PowerPoint and Google Slides, as well as student digital activities of the notes, practice activities, exit tickets, project, and unit assessment.

This unit primarily correlates to the current TEKS 3rd grade Social Studies standards (adopted in 2024). It includes EVERYTHING you need to teach about artists, writers, scientists, and inventors in communities– just print & go!

 

This unit covers the following topics:

  • Lesson 1: What is Cultural Heritage?
  • Lesson 2: Writes and Artists in Communities
  • Lesson 3: Kadir Nelson
  • Lesson 4: Tomie dePaola
  • Lesson 5: Carmen Lomas Garza
  • Lesson 6: Laura Ingalls Wilder
  • Lesson 7: Scientists and Inventors in Communities
  • Lesson 8: Jonas Salk
  • Lesson 9: Cyrus McCormick
  • Lesson 10: Bill Gates
  • Lesson 11: Louis Pasteur
  • Lesson 12: Computers
  • Lesson 13: Pasteurization
  • Lesson 14: Medical Vaccines
  • Lesson 15: Artists, Writers, Science, and Technology Review

 

What’s included in this resource?

  • 4-week pacing guide and overview
  • Scope and Sequence
  • 15 teacher lesson plan guides
  • 14 non-editable slideshows (Google Drive & PPT versions)
  • 1 editable slideshow review game
  • Guided notes for Lessons 1-14 (2 versions: fill-in-the-blank and highlighted words)
  • 14 practice activities
  • 15 exit tickets
  • Digital and full-color versions of student activities
  • Unit Project
  • Unit Assessment
  • Answer keys for all student activities

 

 

 

What makes this Guided Social Studies Curriculum Smart and Simple?

✅ The social studies daily lessons and activities are bite-sized and can easily be implemented in 30-45 minutes.

✅ The social studies curriculum is TEKS-aligned (for Texas) but is still flexible enough to use in any order and in conjunction with any state curriculum.

✅ Each social studies unit has everything you need to simply teach social studies – easy-to-follow lesson plans, guided notes, practice activities, exit tickets, and more!

 

It’s everything you need to implement engaging social studies lessons that students love and teachers enjoy (because it’s comprehensive and easy to prep)!

© Kirsten Hammond – The Southern Teach

All rights reserved. Purchase of this unit entitles the purchaser the right to reproduce the pages in limited quantities for single classroom use only.  Duplication for an entire school, an entire school system or commercial purposes is strictly forbidden without written permission from the publisher. Copying any part of this product and placing it on the Internet in any form (even a personal/classroom website) is strictly forbidden. Failure to comply is a copyright infringement and a violation of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DCMA). Clipart and elements found in this file are copyrighted and cannot be extracted and used outside of this file without permission or license.

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