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3rd grade · Social Studies · Unit 11 of 11

Changemakers & Good Citizens

Taking part and learning from sources

What your child practices

Traits of good citizens, how people work for change in their communities, primary and secondary sources, and reading timelines.

Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS) teks student expectation: 3.9(A); 3.14(B); 3.15(B) · characteristics of good citizenship, primary and secondary sources, and timelines

How we explain it

Children can open this short lesson before they practice.

  1. Good citizens are honest, fair and helpful.
  2. A local public issue is a problem that affects people in the community.
  3. Primary sources are from the time, like old photos. Timelines show order.

Example: Which is a primary source about your town’s past: an old photo of Main Street, or a new textbook? A primary source was made at the time. The old photo was taken back then. Answer: an old photo of Main Street

Changemakers & Good Citizens in Texas

In the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS), this is unit 11 of 11 in 3rd grade Social Studies, after Culture & Celebrations.

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

    Which is a responsibility of people in a community?

    • ignore neighbors
    • litter
    • obey laws and help keep it safe

  2. Question 2

    Harriet Tubman risked her life to lead people…

    • out of slavery to freedom
    • across the ocean
    • into the army
    • to the Moon

  3. Question 3

    Ruby Bridges took a risk at age 6 to…

    • attend a school that had been for white students only
    • win a race
    • climb a mountain
    • fly a plane

  4. Question 4

    15 students vote for soccer and 10 vote for tag. The 10 students still have the right to…

    • be left out
    • never play again
    • be treated fairly and share their ideas

  5. Question 5

    On a timeline, an event from 1850 comes ___ an event from 1900.

    • at the same time as
    • before
    • after

  6. Question 6

    Hector P. Garcia worked for change in Texas by…

    • speaking up for equal treatment of veterans
    • staying silent
    • breaking laws
    • hiding

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