WebQuest - Student will explore cultures through a series of questions. 

Suggestions and Recommendations: 

1. Make sure students are familiar with the rubric and checklist you will be using for the project, before you begin the assignment.
2. The server does not support the check boxes or the textboxes provided within the project.  Please create your own system of allowing students to answer these questions.
3. The following website will be of use for students during their research:

• China
• Italy
• Brazil

Grade Level: 3rd

Content: Social Studies

Learning Standards: 

Social Studies
Standard 2:   World History

Students will use a variety of intellectual skills to demonstrate their 
understanding of major ideas, eras, themes, developments, and turning points 
in world history and examine the broad sweep of history from a variety of perspectives.

Standard 3:   Geography

Students will use a variety of intellectual skills to demonstrate their understanding of the geography of the interdependent world in which we live—local, national, and global—including the distribution of people, places, and environments over the Earth’s surface.

Standard 4:   Economics

Students will use a variety of intellectual skills to demonstrate their understanding of how the United States and other societies develop economic systems and associated institutions to allocate scarce resources, how major decision-making units function in the United States and other national economies, and how an economy solves the scarcity problem through market and non market mechanisms.

Standard 5:   Civics, Citizenship, and Government

Students will use a variety of intellectual skills to demonstrate their understanding of the necessity for establishing governments; the governmental system of the United States and other nations; the United States Constitution; the basic civic values of American constitutional democracy; and the roles, rights, and responsibilities of citizenship, including avenues of participation.

New York State Learning Standards

Concept Map
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