Standards
§113.5. Social Studies, Grade 3.
2) History. The student understands common characteristics of communities, past and present. The student is expected to: (A) identify reasons people have formed communities, including a need for security, law, and material well-being; and (B) compare ways in which people in the local community and communities around the world meet their needs for government, education, communication, transportation, and recreation, over time and in the present. (C) explain how local people and events have influenced local community history.
(4) Geography. The student understands how humans adapt to variations in the physical environment. The student is expected to: (D) identify and compare the human characteristics of selected regions.
(6) Economics. The student understands the purposes of spending and saving money. The student is expected to: (A) identify ways of earning, spending, and saving money.
(7) Geography.The student understands how physical characteristics of places and regions affect people's activities and settlement patterns. The student is expected to:(A) describe how weather patterns, natural resources, seasonal patterns,and natural hazards affect activities and settlement patterns; and (B) explain how people depend on the physical environment and its natural resources to satisfy their basic needs.
(17) Social studies skills. The student communicates effectively in written, oral, and visual forms. The student is expected to: (A) express ideas orally based on knowledge and experiences; (B) create written and visual material such as stories,poems, pictures, maps, and graphic organizers to express ideas; and (C) use standard grammar, spelling, sentence structure, and punctuation.
(18) Social studies skills. The student uses problem-solving and decision-making skills, working independently and with others, in a variety of settings. The student is expected to: (A) use a problem-solving process to identify a problem, gather information, list and consider options, consider advantages and disadvantages, choose and implement a solution, and evaluate the effectiveness of the solution; and (B) use a decision-making process to identify a situation that requires a decision,gather information, identify options, predict consequences, and take action to implement a decision.
§126.3. Technology Applications, Grades 3-5.
(1) Foundations. The student demonstrates knowledge and appropriate use of hardware components, software programs, and their connections. The student is expected to: (A) use technology terminology appropriate to the task; (B) save and delete files, uses menu options and commands, and work with more than one software application; (E) access remote equipment on a network such as a printer or other peripherals.
(2) Foundations. The student uses data input skills appropriate to the task. The student is expected to: (A) use a variety of input devices such as mouse, keyboard, disk drive, modem,voice/sound recorder, scanner, digital video, CD-ROM, or touch screen; (B) use proper keyboarding techniques such as correct hand and body positions and smooth and rhythmic keystroke patterns; (C) demonstrate touch keyboarding techniques for operating the alphabetic, numeric, punctuation, and symbol keys as grade-level appropriate; (D) produce documents at the keyboard, proofread, and correct errors; (E) use language skills including capitalization, punctuation, spelling, word division, and use of numbers and symbols as grade-level appropriate.