Third Grade Social Studies

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Unit 3: The Early History of Michigan

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3rd Grade Michigan Studies

Unit 3: The Early History of Michigan

Big Picture Graphic

Overarching Question:

How have economics and the early history of Michigan influenced how Michigan grew?

Previous Unit:

This Unit:

Next Unit:

The Economy of Michigan

The Early History of Michigan

The Growth of Michigan

Questions To Focus Assessment and Instruction:

1. How do historians learn about the past? 2. How did people and events influence the early history of

Michigan?

Types of Thinking

Cause and Effect Description Point of View

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Unit 3: The Early History of Michigan

Questions for Students

In this unit, we are going to be learning about the early history of Michigan. Think about the focus questions:

1. How do historians learn about the past? 2. How did people and events influence the early history of

Michigan?

Use the chart below to write or draw about these questions.

Things I Know

Questions I Have

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Lesson 1 Graphic Organizer

Primary Sources

The study of the past

Secondary Sources

History

What happened?

Questions

Why did it happen?

When did it happen?

Who was involved?

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Big Ideas of Lesson 1, Unit 3

? History is the study of the past. ? Historians are people who study the past. ? Historians are like detectives. They look for clues to understand the past. ? Historians use both primary and secondary sources to study the past. ? Some of the questions historians ask are "what happened?, and "when

did it happen?"

1 history

what happened in the past

Word Cards

2 historian

a person who studies the past

Example: When you study history, you study Example: A historian studies clues from the

about people and events of the past.

past.

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3 primary sources

records made by people who saw or took place in an event

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4 secondary sources

records written by someone who was not there at the time

Example: Photographs, diaries, newspaper articles, and letters are primary sources.

Example: Textbooks are secondary sources.

5 timeline

1998

2000

a diagram that shows the order in which events happened

Example: You can make a timeline of important events in your life.

6 decade

a ten year period of time

1990 1993 1996

1991 1994 1997 1999

1992 1995 1998

Example: It happened a decade ago which means it happened ten years ago.

7 cause

an action that makes something happen

Cause Event Effect

Example: When the mill was built, it caused more farmers to move into the area.

8 effect

something that results from something else happening

Cause Event Effect

Example: One effect of more people moving into the area was that the town began to grow.

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Waterford 1872

Clue #1

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Clue #1 Analysis Chart

What is it?

When was it created?

1.

Natural Features

2.

3.

1.

Human Features

2.

3.

A Mystery: Something you don't understand on the map

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