Scope

Core Knowledge at a Glance: Major Topic Headings

 

Third Grade

Language Art/English

  1. Reading and Writing
  2. Poetry
  3. Fiction (Stories; Norse Myths; Greek and Roman Myths)
  4. Sayings and Phrases

History and Geography

World

  1. World Geography (Spatial Sense; Canada; Important Rivers)
  2. Ancient Rome (Geography of Mediterranean Region; Roman Empire, “Decline and Fall”)
  3. Vikings

American

  1. The Earliest Americans
  2. Early Exploration of North America
  3. The Thirteen Colonies: Life and Times Before the Revolution

Visual Arts

  1. Elements of Art
  2. American Indian Art
  3. Art of Ancient Rome and Byzantine Civilization

Music

  1. Elements of Music
  2. Listening and Understanding (Orchestra; Composers)
  3. Songs

Mathematics

  1. Numbers and Number Sense
  2. Fractions and Decimals
  3. Money
  4. Computation
  5. Measurement
  6. Geometry

Science

  1. Introduction to Classification of Animals
  2. Human Body (Muscular, Skeletal, and Nervous Systems; Vision and Hearing)
  3. Light and Optics
  4. Sound
  5. Ecology
  6. Astronomy
  7. Science Biographies