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3rd grade · Social Studies · Unit 4 of 11

People Who Built Communities

Planners, settlers, entrepreneurs and inventors

What your child practices

Why people form communities, and the people the Texas standards name: Pierre-Charles L'Enfant, Benjamin Banneker, Benjamin Franklin, Daniel Boone and the Founding Fathers; entrepreneurs Henry Ford and Sam Walton; and Jonas Salk, Cyrus McCormick, Bill Gates and Louis Pasteur. Also decades and centuries.

Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS) teks student expectation: 3.1(A); 3.1(B); 3.1(C); 3.2(A); 3.6(D); 3.13(A); 3.13(B); 3.15(C) · people who shaped and created communities, why communities form, entrepreneurs and inventors, and decades and centuries

How we explain it

Children can open this short lesson before they practice.

  1. People form communities to meet needs like safety, food and work.
  2. Planners, settlers, entrepreneurs and inventors built communities.
  3. Example: Benjamin Banneker helped survey the land for Washington, D.C.

Example: Henry Ford started a company to make cars. He was an… He started his own business. A person who starts a business is an entrepreneur. Answer: entrepreneur

People Who Built Communities in Texas

In the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS), this is unit 4 of 11 in 3rd grade Social Studies, after Ask, Find & Record and before Heroes, Writers & Artists.

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

    A decade is…

    • 1,000 years
    • 100 years
    • 10 years
    • 1 year

  2. Question 2

    Daniel Boone helped start a new community in…

    • Kentucky
    • Florida
    • Texas
    • Maine

  3. Question 3

    Henry Ford made cars cheaper by using an…

    • elevator
    • oven
    • assembly line
    • airplane

  4. Question 4

    Communities make laws so that people…

    • can live together safely
    • have no rules
    • stop working
    • never meet

  5. Question 5

    Benjamin Banneker helped survey the land for…

    • Washington, D.C.
    • New Orleans
    • Philadelphia
    • the Alamo

  6. Question 6

    Pasteurized milk helped communities because it…

    • made milk safer to drink
    • turned milk blue
    • made milk sweeter
    • made cows bigger

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