2nd Grade
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Third Grade Curriculum
3.3.a. Science
Structures for Survival In a Healthy Ecosystem
A healthy natural system is essential to help plants and animals survive the process of growth and reproduction. This unit teaches students that adaptations are only made in the context of the natural system of the species. These adaptations only lead to survival if the needs of the plant or animal are met by its ecosystem. Plants and animals must be able to grow and reproduce to survive as a species. Each species has developed structures that help individuals in a population to grow, survive to reproductive age, and reproduce. This applies not only to plants and animals, but to humans and human communities.
3.3.c./3.3.d. Science
Living Things in Changing Environments
This unit is focused on how living things (including humans) can cause changes in the environments in which they live. Students learn that changes to the environment caused by living things can have beneficial, detrimental, or neutral effects on other organisms. The lessons explore examples of animals or plants that have not survived as the result of a change to their environment. Habitat restoration is described as a process that can sometimes be used to make it possible for plants and animals to survive and reproduce in areas where they once could not.
3.1.1./3.1.2.
The Geography of Where We Live
This unit uses a series of wall maps to help students learn about their local region: the deserts, mountains, valleys, hills, coastal areas, oceans, and lakes. They identify the ecosystems (natural systems) that are found in their local region. The unit also explores the resources (ecosystem goods and ecosystem services) that are provided by the natural systems in their local region, and their uses. Students learn about the ways that people use the resources provided by the ecosystems where they live. Finally, they look at the ways humans have changed the natural systems in their local region.
3.2.2. History-Social Science
California Indian People-Exploring Tribal Regions
This unit gives students and teachers tools to explore the interactions between the California Indian nations (peoples) and the components and processes of the natural system(s) in their local region. Using a series of wall maps and a grade-level reader, students identify their local region, the California Indians that lived in and around their local region (and perhaps still do), and characteristics of the natural regions in which they lived. Then, students study the ecosystem goods and ecosystem services available to the local California Indians, the resources they came to depend upon from the natural system(s), methods they used to acquire such resources, and how they influenced the components and processes of the natural system(s) with which they interacted.
3.5.1./3.5.2./3.5.3. History-Social Science
California's Economy-Natural Choices
This unit discusses the ways (past and present) in which local producers have used and are using natural resources, human resources, and capital resources to produce goods and services. Students study examples of the natural resources (ecosystem goods and ecosystem services) used by local producers. In addition, they learn to compare the costs and benefits of methods used by local producers to extract, harvest, transport, and consume natural resources. Students compare costs and benefits of producing goods --including food and other items-- locally, as opposed to transporting them long distances.
3.3.a. Science
Structures for Survival In a Healthy Ecosystem
A healthy natural system is essential to help plants and animals survive the process of growth and reproduction. This unit teaches students that adaptations are only made in the context of the natural system of the species. These adaptations only lead to survival if the needs of the plant or animal are met by its ecosystem. Plants and animals must be able to grow and reproduce to survive as a species. Each species has developed structures that help individuals in a population to grow, survive to reproductive age, and reproduce. This applies not only to plants and animals, but to humans and human communities.
3.3.c./3.3.d. Science
Living Things in Changing Environments
This unit is focused on how living things (including humans) can cause changes in the environments in which they live. Students learn that changes to the environment caused by living things can have beneficial, detrimental, or neutral effects on other organisms. The lessons explore examples of animals or plants that have not survived as the result of a change to their environment. Habitat restoration is described as a process that can sometimes be used to make it possible for plants and animals to survive and reproduce in areas where they once could not.
3.1.1./3.1.2.
The Geography of Where We Live
This unit uses a series of wall maps to help students learn about their local region: the deserts, mountains, valleys, hills, coastal areas, oceans, and lakes. They identify the ecosystems (natural systems) that are found in their local region. The unit also explores the resources (ecosystem goods and ecosystem services) that are provided by the natural systems in their local region, and their uses. Students learn about the ways that people use the resources provided by the ecosystems where they live. Finally, they look at the ways humans have changed the natural systems in their local region.
3.2.2. History-Social Science
California Indian People-Exploring Tribal Regions
This unit gives students and teachers tools to explore the interactions between the California Indian nations (peoples) and the components and processes of the natural system(s) in their local region. Using a series of wall maps and a grade-level reader, students identify their local region, the California Indians that lived in and around their local region (and perhaps still do), and characteristics of the natural regions in which they lived. Then, students study the ecosystem goods and ecosystem services available to the local California Indians, the resources they came to depend upon from the natural system(s), methods they used to acquire such resources, and how they influenced the components and processes of the natural system(s) with which they interacted.
3.5.1./3.5.2./3.5.3. History-Social Science
California's Economy-Natural Choices
This unit discusses the ways (past and present) in which local producers have used and are using natural resources, human resources, and capital resources to produce goods and services. Students study examples of the natural resources (ecosystem goods and ecosystem services) used by local producers. In addition, they learn to compare the costs and benefits of methods used by local producers to extract, harvest, transport, and consume natural resources. Students compare costs and benefits of producing goods --including food and other items-- locally, as opposed to transporting them long distances.
