How a Community Grows and Changes Storyboard

3rd Grade Social StudiesCommunities Past and Present3 pages

About this worksheet

Students play director for a local history museum that wants an animated video about how an American town grows over time. Two brainstorm questions come first. Then a 6-panel storyboard runs from an early settlement with dirt roads and cabins to the town today with big schools and the internet. Each panel needs a sketch and a caption that explains how the town is changing. The 3-page 3rd grade task supports C3 Framework D2.His.1.3-5, with no answer key since every storyboard differs.

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Curriculum objectives covered

D2.His.1.3-5

โ€œCreate and use a chronological sequence of related events to compare developments that happened at the same time.โ€

The six panels put one town's growth in time order, from dirt roads to railroads, telegraph wires, highways, and the internet.

D2.His.14.3-5

โ€œExplain probable causes and effects of events and developments.โ€

Question 2 and the captions for Panels 3 and 4, where students say how the railroad and electricity helped the town grow.

What's inside this worksheet

Step 1 Brainstorming

Question 1 asks for the biggest difference between the early settlement and the town today. Question 2 asks for two inventions that will help the town grow in Panels 3 and 4.

Step 2 The Storyboard

Six labeled panels, each with a caption line. They are The Early Settlement, First Businesses with a general store, The Railroad Arrives, New Technology with electricity and telegraph wires, Modern Travel with paved highways, and The Town Today.

How teachers use it

Art and writing block

The sheet says stick figures are fine, and it is worth repeating. Spend the time on captions, because the directions ask how the town changes, not what is in the picture.

Model one panel

Write the Panel 3 caption together first. Something like "Trains carry wood and workers, so more houses go up" shows the cause and effect the other five captions need.

Hallway timeline

Pin finished storyboards in panel order along a wall. Comparing the Panel 4 captions shows who knows that electricity changed homes as well as streets.

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