Social Studies
Social Studies Review Sheets
Quarter 1
COMMUNITIES CREATE THE FUTURE
REVIEW SHEET
(prepared by Mrs. Hagaman and Dr. Zalman
for the Maxey Third Grade "Communities Create the Future " Unit)
People Make Communities Good Places to Live
- How do city governments pay for government services? (by collecting taxes from citizens).
How to Resolve Conflicts
- Walk away, laugh about it, compromise, or choose someone who can help (mediator).
Rules and Laws in a Community
- Vote: The way people show what they think a group should do.
- Election: An event in which people vote or choose leaders or vote for or against new laws.
- Constitution: the most important set of laws in the United States.
How to Make a Choice by Voting
- Voting is a right of most American citizens.
- Candidate: someone who is running for office
- Ballot: a list of all the possible choices for which to vote.
- Campaign: trying to get the voters to choose one candidate instead of another.
State Governments
- Governor:
- elected by the voters in the state
- the leader of the state
- suggests laws that he or she thinks will be good for the state
- meets with governors of other states to share ideas
- Public property: property that belongs to all citizens. Parks and museums are examples of public property.
- Private property: property that belongs to one person or small group of people. Homes and businesses are examples of private property.
How the National Government Works
- There are three branches of government:
- The President
- Elected by the voters of the country every 4 years
- Leader of the United States
- Can approve a new law by signing it
- Visits other countries
- Signs treaties, or agreements, with other nations
- The Congress
- Makes new laws
- Two parts:
- The House of Representatives
- The Senate
- The Supreme Court
- Highest court in the United States
- Decide if laws are fair or unfair
- Determines consequences
Symbols of Pride
- Patriotism: the love that people have for their country
- United States flag
- Has been changed to show changes in the number of states
- A symbol of our country/shows patriotism
- Used to honor soldiers and others who have served their country
- Flown at voting places and Olympic Games
- Used to mark great discoveries
- The National Anthem (a song of patriotism)
- The Star Spangled Banner
- Written by Francis Scott Key
- The Pledge of Allegiance
- Said while saluting the flag
- The Bald Eagle – the national bird of the United States
The Lincoln Book: Government and Services
- A community must have laws. A law is a written rule that must be obeyed by all the people.
- The Governor is the head of the state of Nebraska.
- The head of a city government is called the Mayor.
- Lincoln city government provides many services to the people of Lincoln. Examples of this are the Police Department, the Fire Department, and the Health Department.
- A city bus is public transportation. Anyone can pay a fare and ride a city bus.
- A tax is money we all contribute to pay for government
Quarter 2
(prepared by Mrs. Hagaman and Dr. Zalman
for the Maxey Third Grade "Communities Find a Place" Unit)
Quarter 3
COMMUNITIES HAVE A HISTORY
REVIEW SHEET
(prepared by Mrs. Hagaman and Dr. Zalman
for the Maxey Third Grade "Communities Have a History " Unit)
Vocabulary:
- Opportunity: the chance to find a job
- Religion: what a person believes about God or a set of gods
- Immigrants: people who move from one country to another country
- Literature: books, poetry, stories and plays written by people to share ideas
- Heritage: the culture left to someone by his or her ancestors
- Holiday: a special day for remembering a person or an event that has importance for the people in a community.
- Traditions: customs, or ways of doing things, that are passed on from parents to children.
- Folktale: a traditional story that often teaches a lesson
End of Lesson Questions:
(Lesson: People from Many Places)
- Why do people move from one country to another? (for adventure, to find new opportunities, to find a place to follow their religion, to escape war, to find food)
- What is the Spanish word for neighborhood? (barrio)
- Why do immigrants often move to certain neighborhoods in their new countries? (They often like to live close to others from the same place.)
- Why do some communities include many different groups of people? (People from many different countries have come to the United States to live.)
(Lesson: Culture in Harlem)
- Why did many African Americans leave the South and move to cities in the North? (to find opportunities in larger cities)
- What form of music became popular in Harlem? (jazz)
- What were some parts of Harlem culture in the 1920s and 1930s? (Important parts of Harlem’s culture were literature, art, and music.)
(Lesson: Holiday Customs and Traditions)
- What traditions are important to Japanese people for the New Year’s holiday? (to begin the year with everything in order; to eat special foods with friends)
- What do Vietnamese people call the New Year’s Holiday? (Tet)
- What is Kwanzaa? (a celebration of African American heritage)
- Why do many people celebrate the New Year’s holiday at Times Square? (It’s a traditional gathering place.)
- What do the Japanese call the celebration of their New Year? (Oshogatsu)
(Lesson: Different Countries, Different Cultures)
- On which continent is India located? (Asia)
- What is one of the largest groups of people in India? (the Hindus)
- What makes the people of India different from one another? (They eat different foods and wear different clothes.)
- What are the two main religions in India? (Hinduism and Islam)
Lincoln Book Review:
Pawnee drought prejudice slave immigrant bribe basin
transcontinental census civil war depression famine
_______ Land that looks like a scooped-out bowl.
_______ People who leave where they lived to come to a new country or region.
_______ Native Americans that lived near where Lincoln is today before the white
settlers.
_______ Anything that is given to a person so he or she will do something
dishonest.
_______ Goes across the continent.
_______ A count of people done by the government.
_______ Belongs to another person and has no personal freedom.
_______ People of a country fight against each other.
_______ An unfair opinion about someone, or disliking someone, even before you
know them.
_______ A time when business activity is very slow and many people are out of
work.
_______ A time when there isn’t enough rain.
_______ A time when people starve to death.
parks boom mall reservations fiesta
_______ Land set aside by the government for Native Americans.
_______ Pioneers, Cooper, Wilderness, Hazel Abel, Holmes, Oak Lake, and
Antelope.
______ A festival or celebration, especially in Spanish speaking countries.
_______ A time when people have jobs and money to spend and things grow at
a very fast rate.
_______ A place where people walk. No cars are allowed.
Quarter 4
COMMUNITIES MEET NEEDS
REVIEW SHEET
(prepared by Mrs. Hagaman and Dr. Zalman
for the Maxey Third Grade "Communities Meet Needs " Unit)
Vocabulary;
- Basic needs: are food, clothing, and shelter
- Rural: area in the countryside, away from cities and towns.
- Service: is something one person does for another.
- Product: something that people make or grow, often to sell.
- Producers: people who make a product.
- Raw materials: resources needed to make a product.
- Marketing: means planning how to sell a product to the community.
- Industry: made up of all the companies that make the same product.
- Consumer: a person who buys a product or a service.
- Price: the amount of money needed to buy a product or service.
- Competition: companies that produce and sell the same product are in competition with one another.
- Supply: the amount of a product or a service there is to be sold.
- Demand: the wish that people have for the product or a service.
- Advertisement: information that a producer provides about its products or services.
- Export: to send a product or resource out of one country to another country.
- Import: is to bring a product or resource into a country from another country.
End of Lesson Questions
(Lesson: People in an Amish Community Work Together)
- Why are the Amish sometimes called the Plain People? (They live plainly and dress plainly. They want to live away from cities and towns.)
- What is a barn raising? (a gathering of neighbors for the purposes of building a barn in one day)
- What are some products and services the Amish buy from other communities? (shoes, cloth, fuel, material, services of doctors)
(Lesson: People Work Together to Make a Product)
- How are most products made today? (by machines in factories)
- What are Human Resources? (the people who work for the company)
- What is the industry? (all the companies that make the same product or provide the same service)
(Lesson: People Buy Products and Services)
- What can competition do to a price? (it can lower the price of a product)
- What is an advertisement? (information used to sell products or services)
(Lesson: The World Is a Marketplace)
- How is the international trade today different from trade long ago? (products get to market in new and faster ways)
- How do communication links help trade? (products can be ordered and shipped from faraway places more easily and quickly)
- How is an export different from an import? (an export is a product or resource that is sent out of a country. An import is a product or resource that is brought into a country)
LINCOLN BOOK REVIEW:
Chapter 2
Communities Help People Meet Their Needs
- What are needs? (things we must have in order to live)
- What is shelter? (a building that gives protection from the outdoors)
Chapter 3
Why People Work
- Why do people work? (to earn money to pay for their needs)
Goods and Services
- If you are determining how much something is worth, you are determining its ____? (value)
- What are goods? (things that you can see and touch like toys and books)
- What are jobs you pay other people to do for you? (services)
- The money people get for working is called _______? (income)
I Don’t Need It, But I Really Want It!
- What are wants? (They are those things you would like to have, but can live without.)
Producers and Consumers
- Producer: makes goods or give services.
- Consumer: being a consumer means buying goods or services.
- Economics: means how goods, services and money are traded back and forth.
Chapter 8
Nebraska’s Biggest Business – Agriculture
- There are fewer farms today than there were 100 years ago, but farms produce more food. Why? (modern farm machinery, fertilizer, products to kill weeds and insects, irrigation)
Nebraska’s Natural Resources
- Natural resources: resources are things that people use. Natural resources are resources found in nature.
- What are some of Nebraska’s natural resources? (water, good soil for farming, grassland)
- Why did many people decide to settle in Nebraska? (to farm)
- What is the name of the places where farmers sell the crops they grow? (markets)
- How did farmers ship their crops across the nation? (the transcontinental railroad)
What Crops Does Nebraska Produce?
- Export: means to send to another county to trade or to sell.
- This is still Nebraska’s most important crop. (corn)
How Do You Like Your Soybeans?
- What are some products made with soybeans? (margarine, yogurt, soap, fuel)
Beef Is King
- What is Nebraska’s largest agricultural product? (beef cattle)
- What is livestock? (Animals which are raised by farmers to be sold.)
From the Farmer’s Field to Your Microwave
- What is production? (producing, or growing, the grain, livestock, milk or vegetables)
- What is processing? (changing farm goods before they can be eaten or used)
- What is distributing? (products are distributed or taken to businesses that use them)
- What is marketing? (all the things that are done to get the consumer to buy the goods)
