
One-Room Schoolhouse Then and Now
3rd grade communities past and present: sort a wagon, smartphone, and general store, read about a one-room schoolhouse, and compare your own town.
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3rd grade communities past and present: sort a wagon, smartphone, and general store, read about a one-room schoolhouse, and compare your own town.

3rd grade communities past and present exit ticket: three slips asking how school differed long ago and what students would miss 100 years ago.

3rd grade community change storyboard: plan a six-panel museum video from dirt roads and cabins to railroads, telegraph wires, highways, and today.

3rd grade past or present sort: help a museum curator place 15 labels, from churning butter to e-books, into Long Ago, Today, and Both. Answer key included.

3rd grade then and now reading passage set in Oak Creek in 1924: walking to school, crank phones, slates, and six questions with an answer key.

3rd grade long ago and today Venn diagram: sort nine lettered activities, from oil lamps to school buses, into Long Ago, Today, and Both. With answer key.

3rd grade three branches of government: match the Capitol, White House, and Supreme Court to their branch and job, then solve three scenarios. With answers.

3rd grade branches of government matching: pictures, six terms, and five scenarios such as storm relief and a budget vote, plus a letter-by-letter key.

3rd grade writing prompt on why government powers are divided: a Point, Evidence, Explain, Link model, a class jobs warm-up, and a paragraph task.

3rd grade branches of government quiz: 13 questions on branch jobs, true or false facts, who belongs where, and why power is split. Answer key included.

3rd grade government jobs sort: place 15 cards, from Commands the military to Holds trials, under the Executive, Legislative, and Judicial branches.

3rd grade three branches guided notes: fill in blanks on Congress, the President, the Cabinet, and the Supreme Court, plus a summary table and answer key.

3rd grade goods and services picture sort: label pizza, car repair, books, a dentist visit, a bicycle, and mail delivery as a good or a service, with answers.

3rd grade how goods are made mind map: trace a carton of milk from farm to fridge through natural, human, and capital resources and distribution.

3rd grade producers and consumers cloze: fill 10 blanks in a Tony's Pizza story with words like producer, capital, and wants. With answer key.

3rd grade goods, services, and resources word search: find capital, consumer, market, producer, and six more words across and down, with a solved grid.

3rd grade natural, human, and capital resources matching: definitions, six examples, bread pictures, and a wooden chair task, all with answers.

3rd grade goods and services sort: help the mayor place 15 town items, from a winter coat to fixing a sink, plus a tricky restaurant meal.

A C3 Framework-aligned 3rd grade worksheet covering world geography, including objectives such as: use maps of the local community and world to identify locations. Fully editable on Chalkie.ai. Sign up free to customize.

3rd grade mapping my community homework: compass rose practice, map symbols, a neighborhood map with a key, a walking route, and a family talk.

3rd grade map skills knowledge organizer: seven key terms, continents, oceans, cardinal directions, map tools, and a labeled park map with questions.

3rd grade world geography KWL chart for a unit on maps, continents, and oceans, with Know, Want to know, and Learned columns.

3rd grade world geography unit test: 30 questions on continents, oceans, map tools, the compass rose, and a local town map. Answer key included.

3rd grade label the seven continents: write each continent from a word bank on a lettered world map, with an A to G answer key.
How has life changed since your grandparents were young? Who decides the rules in our state? Third grade social studies takes on those questions, and these 3rd grade social studies worksheets cover the C3 Framework strands behind them: communities past and present, branches of government, economics, and world geography.
Students compare life in specific historical time periods to life today, describe how government is structured and how its powers are divided, identify the resources used to produce goods and services, and use maps of the local community and the world to identify locations.
Teachers reach for these during civics units around election season, local history projects, and map skills practice. All four topics are free to download and print with no payment required. With a free Chalkie account you can also edit any worksheet and regenerate it, for instance pointing the economics page at industries your students actually see in your region.
C3-aligned history: comparing life in specific historical time periods to life today.
View worksheetsC3-aligned civics: describing the structure of government and how its powers are divided.
View worksheetsC3-aligned economics: identifying examples of the variety of resources used to produce goods and services.
View worksheetsC3-aligned geography: using maps of the local community and the world to identify locations.
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