About this worksheet
Students start with an eight-item word bank, from a horse-drawn wagon and a general store to a smartphone and a paved highway, and sort each thing into a Past Communities or Present Communities column. A short reading about a one-room schoolhouse follows, where one teacher taught every grade and students wrote on chalk slates. Two questions then turn to their own town. The 4-page 3rd grade sheet fits C3 Framework indicator D2.His.2.3-5, and the last page gives the sort answers and sample replies for the schoolhouse questions.
