World Book – Third Grade
26 Aug 2011 Leave a Comment
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Social Studies
- Holidays and folk customs
- Native Americans
- Explorers and pioneers
- Appreciation of different cultures, races, religions
- History and development of local community
- Community helpers
- Consumers and producers
- Sources of food and clothing
- Shelters of animals and people
- History and development of transportation
- History and development of communication
- Citizenship and social responsibility
- Basic human needs and wants
- Local geography and topography
- U. S. geography and regions
- The continents
- Flat maps and globes
Science
- Animal helpers
- Dinosaurs
- Life cycle
- Plants and animals of the desert
- Plants and animals of the sea
- Common birds, trees, flowers
- Forest plants
- Conservation of plants and animals
- Weather and climate
- Earth’s changing surface
- Magnets and electricity
- Compass
- Gravity
- Light and color
- Energy and its sources
- Force and work
- Machines
- Moon and stars
- Earth satellites
- Scientific method and scientific inquiry
Language Arts
- Silent reading
- Reading prose and poetry aloud
- Oral presentations: reporting experiences orally with accuracy
- Alphabetizing through the third letter of a word
- Dictionary skills
- Developing word-attack methods
- Synonyms, antonyms, homonyms
- Spelling
- Beginning cursive writing
- Concept of paragraph
- Using period, comma, question mark, apostrophe, quotation marks
- Writing short, original stories and poems
- Postwriting skills: editing and proofreading
- Increasing indexing skills
Health and Safety
- Care of eyes and ears
- Dental health
- Proper balance of activities
- Healthful leisure activities
- Prevention and control of diseases
- Parts of the body
- Nutrition
- Health with relation to food, shelter, clothing
- School and community health services
- Home safety hazards
- Safety in the community
- Simple first aid
Mathematics
- Reading and writing numbers to 5 places
- Beginning Roman numerals
- Rounding numbers
- Positive and negative numbers in daily life
- Simple fractions and equivalents
- Properties of one
- Numeration systems
- Addition and subtraction facts to 25
- Multiplication and division facts to 100
- Perimeter, area, volume
- Geometric constructions
- Similar and congruent figures
- Properties of solid figures
- Customary and metric measurement
- Time to 1- and 5-minute measures
- Estimation of outcomes
- Problems-solving analysis
- Word problems
- Charts and graphs
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