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  We learn about maps and globes, immigration, communities, landforms and water terms.

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Maps and Landforms Children are fascinated by their world.  In third grade we use that natural curiosity to teach them how to make and use maps, what landforms and water terms are and where they can be found and the names and locations of the 7 continents and 5 oceans of our planet.

http://education.nationalgeographic.com/education/mapping/?ar_a=1

http://www.wartgames.com/themes/geography/maps.html

http://www.wartgames.com/themes/geography/latitude-longitude.html

http://www.maps.com/funfacts.aspx

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Our largest unit in social studies is the study of immigration with a focus on Ellis Island.  We also learn a lot about our own family heritage.  The culminating activity is an immigration day where the children pretend they are immigrants coming to America in the year 1900.






 http://www.ellisisland.org/

http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/immigration/index.htm

http://www.nps.gov/stli/index.htm

http://pbskids.org/bigapplehistory/immigration/index-flash.html

http://www.nps.gov/elis/forkids/index.htm

http://www.wartgames.com/themes/american/immigration.html

http://kids.nationalgeographic.com/kids/stories/history/statue-of-liberty/

http://www.earthcam.com/usa/newyork/statueofliberty/

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Click on the buttons to go to a Scholastic website that will allow you to take a tour of Ellis Island or meet and read stories about immigrant children.  You can even take you on a virtual field trip.  Check them out!

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Young Immigrants

Ellis Island Field Trip

Ellis Island Tour