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Social Studies 3rd Grade

Objective 2 
Describe how various communities have adapted to existing environments and how other communities have modified the environment.

1. Describe the major world ecosystems (i.e. desert, plain, tropic, tundra, grassland, mountain, forest, wetland). 
2. Identify important natural resources of world ecosystems. 
3. Describe how communities have modified the environment to accommodate their needs (e.g. logging, storing water, building transportation systems). 
4. Investigate ways different communities have adapted into an ecosystem. 

Objective 3 
Analyze ways cultures use, maintain, and preserve the physical environment.

1. Identify ways people use the physical environment (e.g. agriculture, recreation, energy, industry). 
2. Compare changes in the availability and use of natural resources over time. 
3. Describe ways to conserve and protect natural resources (e.g. reduce, reuse, recycle). 
4. Compare perspectives of various communities toward the natural environment. 
5. Make inferences about the positive and negative impacts of human-caused change to the physical environment.