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3rd grade · Social Studies · Unit 2 of 11

Working Together Fairly

Share jobs, listen to others and treat everyone with respect.

What your child practices

Practices group skills: sharing ideas, decisions and responsibilities, being fair and respectful, considering other people's views, listening actively and choosing ways to present information.

Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS) teks student expectation: 3.16(A); 3.16(B) · making decisions together and solving problems step by step

How we explain it

Children can open this short lesson before they practice.

  1. In a group, share ideas, jobs and decisions.
  2. Listen when others talk, and be kind and polite.
  3. A perspective is someone’s way of seeing things. Others may see it differently, and that’s okay.

Example: Your group disagrees about a poster idea. What should you do first? Every person’s ideas matter. Listening helps you understand their perspective. Answer: listen to everyone’s ideas

Working Together Fairly in Texas

In the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS), this is unit 2 of 11 in 3rd grade Social Studies, after Needs Around the World and before Ask, Find & Record.

Gradelings describes a child's practice on this unit as Beginning, Approaching, Meeting or Exceeding (Four practice steps). That reflects practice, not a report-card mark: the teacher decides the mark.

Source: Texas Education Agency (TEA)

Sample questions

A taste of this unit. In the app, questions change every time and get easier or harder to match your child.

  1. Question 1

    Your group has four jobs and four people. A fair plan is to…

    • give one person all jobs
    • give nobody a job
    • give each person one job

  2. Question 2

    Which is respectful?

    • Saying “please” and “thank you”
    • Grabbing
    • Calling names

  3. Question 3

    An electronic way to present information is…

    • a paper plane
    • a poster in a drawer
    • a slide show

  4. Question 4

    To understand someone's perspective, you can…

    • guess
    • tell them they're wrong
    • ask them and listen

  5. Question 5

    A perspective is…

    • a rule
    • a type of pencil
    • a way of seeing or thinking about something

  6. Question 6

    Giving each group member a role such as reporter or timekeeper is…

    • a waste of time
    • a good way to share responsibilities
    • unfair

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