1. Connecting Themes Enduring Understandings
3rd Grade
Connecting Themes Enduring Understandings

2. Scarcity Distribution of Power Conflict and Change Location
Human Environmental Interactions
Scarcity
Time, Change, & Continuity
Individuals, Groups, Institutions
Production, Distribution, Consumption
Beliefs and Ideals 2

3. People’s ideas and feelings influence their decisions.
Beliefs & Ideals
People’s ideas and feelings influence their decisions. 3

4. Conflict causes change.
Conflict & Change
Conflict causes change. 4

5. Distribution of Power
Laws and people’s beliefs help decide who gets to make choices in government. 5

6. Human Environmental Interaction
People affect the environment and the environment affects people. 6

7. Individuals, Groups, Institutions
What people, groups, and institutions say and do can help or harm others whether they mean to or not. 7

8. Where people live matters.
Location
Where people live matters. 8

9. Scarcity
Because people cannot have everything they want, they have to make choices. 9

10. Production, Distribution, Consumption
The ways people make, get, and use goods and services may be different from how people in other places make, get, and use goods and services. 10

11. Time, Change, Continuity
Some things will change over time, while other things will stay the same. 11