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Kentucky Core Content 4.1 Pacing Guide
Social Studies/Science
3rd Grade
Getting Started
Unit 1
Friendship
Instructional Days
1-5
Instructional Days
6-35
Cultures and
Societies
SS-05-2.3.2
Students will:
Cultures and
Societies
SS-05-2.3.2
Students will:
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give examples of
conflicts between
individuals or
groups and
describe
appropriate
conflict
resolution
strategies (e.g.,
compromise,
cooperation,
communication).
Rules and Procedures
Unifying Concepts
SC-04-4.6.1
Students will:

give examples of
conflicts between
individuals or
groups and
describe
appropriate
conflict
resolution
strategies (e.g.,
compromise,
cooperation,
communication).
Historical Perspective
SS-05-5.2.2
Students will:
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Unit 2
Animals and
Their Habitats
Instructional Days
36-65
explain reasons
(e.g., freedoms,
opportunities,
fleeing negative
situations)
immigrants came
to America long
ago
(Colonization,
Settlement,
Industrialization
and Immigration,
Twentieth
Century to
Present) and
compare with
why immigrants
come to America
today.
Unit 3
Money
Instructional Days
66-95
Economics
SS-05-3.3.1
Students will:
analyze patterns
and make
generalizations
about the basic
relationships of
plants and
animals in an
ecosystem (food
chain).
Biological Science
SC-04-3.4.1
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Students will:
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compare the
different
structures and
functions of
plants and
animals that
contribute to
the growth,
survival and
reproduction of
the organisms;
make
inferences
about the
relationship
between
structure and
function in
organisms.
Unifying Concepts
SC-04-4.7.1
Students will:

make predictions
understand that
markets enable
buyers and
sellers
to exchange
goods and
services.
Economics
SS-05-3.4.1
Students will:
describe
production,
distribution and
consumption of
goods and
services in the
history of the U.S.
(Colonization,
Industrialization,
Twentieth Century
to Present).
Economics
SS-05-3.1.1
Students will:

describe scarcity
and explain how
scarcity required
people in different
periods in the
U.S.
(Colonization,
Expansion,
Twentieth Century
to Present) to
make economic
choices (e.g., use
of productive
Unit 4
Earth, Moon,
and Sun
Instructional Days
96-125
Unit 5
Communities
Across Time
Instructional Days
126-155
Earth/Space Science
SC-04-2.3.4
Students will:
Earth/Space Science
SC-04-2.3.2
Students will:
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identify patterns,
recognize
relationships and
draw conclusions
about the EarthSun system by
interpreting a
variety of
representations/m
odels (e.g.,
diagrams,
sundials, distance
of sun above
horizon) of the
sun’s apparent
movement in the
sky.
SC-04-2.3.5
Students will:
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understand that
the moon moves
across the sky on
a daily basis
much like the
Sun. The
observable shape
of the moon can
be described as it
changes from day
to day in a cycle
that lasts about a
month.
Instructional Days
156-185
Cultures and
Societies
SS-05-2.1.1
Students will:
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make predictions
and/or inferences
based on patterns
of evidence
related to the
survival and
reproductive
success of
organisms in
particular
environments.
Unifying Concepts
SC-04-4.7.2
Students will:
describe human
interactions in the
environment
where they live;
understand that
culture is a
system of beliefs,
knowledge,
institutions,
customs/tradition
s, languages and
skills shared by a
group of people.
Government and
Civics
SS-05-1.1.2
Students will:
Unifying Concepts
SC-04-4.7.1
Students will:
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SC-04-2.3.2
describe and
explain
consequences of
changes to the
surface of the
Earth, including
some common
fast changes (e.g.,
landslides,
volcanic
eruptions,
earthquakes), and
some common
slow changes
(e.g., erosion,
weathering).
Unit 6
Storytelling
explain and give
examples of how
democratic
governments
function (by
making, enacting
and enforcing
laws) to promote
the “common
good” (e.g.,
public smoking
ban, speed limits,
seat belt
requirements).
Geography
SS-05-4.3.1
Students will:

explain patterns
of human
settlement in the
early
Government and
Civics
SS-05-1.1.2
Students will:

explain and give
examples of how
democratic
governments
function (by
making, enacting
and enforcing
laws) to promote
the “common
good” (e.g.,
public smoking
ban, speed limits,
seat belt
requirements).
SS-05-1.3.1
Students will:

explain the basic
principles of
democracy (e.g.,
justice, equality,
responsibility,
freedom) found in
significant U.S.
historical
documents
(Declaration of
Independence, U.
S. Constitution,
Bill of Rights) and
analyze why they
are important to
citizens today.
Cultures and
Societies
SS-05-2.3.1
Students will:
describe various
forms of interactions
(compromise,
cooperation, conflict)
that occurred between
diverse groups (e.g.,
Native Americans,
European Explorers,
English Colonists,
British Parliament) in
the history of the
United States.
and/or inferences
based on patterns
of evidence
related to the
survival and
reproductive
success of
organisms in
particular
environments.
Geography
SS-05-4.3.1
Students will:

explain patterns
of human
settlement in the
early
development of
the United States
and explain how
these patterns
were influenced
by physical
characteristics
(e.g., climate,
landforms, bodies
of water).
resourcesnatural, human,
capital) and incur
opportunity costs.
Students will:

Historical
Perspective
SS-05-5.2.4
Students will:

describe
significant
historical events
in each of the
broad historical
periods and eras
in U.S. history
(Colonization and
Settlement,
Revolution and a
New Nation,
Expansion and
Conflict,
Industrialization
and Immigration,
Twentieth Century
to Present) and
explain cause and
effect
relationships.
describe and
explain
consequences of
changes to the
surface of the
Earth, including
some common
fast changes (e.g.,
landslides,
volcanic
eruptions,
earthquakes), and
some common
slow changes
(e.g., erosion,
weathering).
Unifying Concepts
SC-04-4.6.2
Students will:

analyze
data/evidence of
the Sun
providing light
and heat to
earth;

use
data/evidence to
substantiate the
conclusion that
the Sun’s light
and heat are
necessary to
sustaining life on
Earth.
SC-04-4.6.4
Students will:
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analyze
models/represent
ations of light in
order to
generalize about
the behavior of
light.
represent the path
of light as it
interacts with a
variety of
surfaces
(reflecting,
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classify the
interactions as
beneficial or
harmful to the
environment
using
data/evidence to
support
conclusions.
Cultures and
Societies
SS-05-2.1.1
Students will:

understand that
culture is a
system of beliefs,
knowledge,
institutions,
customs/tradition
s, languages and
skills shared by a
group of people.
Geography
SS-05-4.3.2
Students will:

describe how
advances in
technology (e.g.,
dams, reservoirs,
roads, irrigation)
allow people to
settle in places
previously
inaccessible in
the United States.
SS-05-4.4.1
Students will:

understand that
people depend
on, adapt to,
and/or modify the
environment to
meet basic needs.
Human actions
modified the
physical
environment and
in turn, the
physical
environment
limited and/or
promoted human
activities in the
development of
the United States
and explain how
these patterns
were influenced
by physical
characteristics
(e.g., climate,
landforms, bodies
of water).
Earth Space/Science
SC-04-2.3.1
Students will:
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classify earth
materials by the
ways that they
are used;
explain how their
properties make
them useful for
different
purposes.
refracting,
absorbing).
settlement of the
United States.