Grade Three Social Studies

 

In their study of our home state, third graders are using the book Massachusetts Our Home by Mary Stockwell and Courtney Johnson Thomas. Below are websites that correlate with each chapter of the book. Click on them to take a virtual tour of a cranberry bog, listen to an audio of the state song, and much, much more.

 

 

 

 

 

State Seal, Song, Symbols

  

     Massachusetts - Enchanted Learning

     Massachusetts Facts

     Massachusetts Facts and Trivia    

     Massachusetts State Song

     Massachusetts Symbols

 

 

 

 

Old State House

 

 

History Close to Home

     

     Boston History and Architecture

     Deborah Samson

     Early American Paintings

     Freedom Trail

     Interactive State House

     Massachusetts Historic Sites

     Massachusetts Museums

     Massachusetts State Project

 

 

 

 

The Land We Call Home

     

     Apple Orchard Tour

     Cranberry Harvest

     Massachusetts Agriculture in the Classroom

     Massachusetts Geography

     

 

 

 

The First People

 

     Native Tech: Eastern Woodlands

     Wampanoag Indian Fact Sheet

     Wampanoag: People of the First Light

     Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head

 

 

 

The Pilgrims

    

     Mayflower History

     Pilgrims and Plymouth County: 1620

     Plimoth 1621

 
 

 

The Puritans

     

     Activities with Puritans and New England Colonies

     Colonial House

     Grandfather's Chair by Nathaniel Hawthorne

     Salem Witch Trials

     Trial of Anne Hutchinson

 

 
 

Massachusetts in the American Revolution

     

     American Revolution for Kids

     Folding the American Flag

     John Adams 

     Paul Revere House

     Paul Revere's Midnight Ride

 
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Your Hometown

 

     

    Topsfield, Massachusetts

     

 

 
 

   

People in Our Past
  

     Emily Dickinson - Biography and Works

     Famous People of Massachusetts

     John F. Kennedy

     John F. Kennedy's Inaugural Speech - Audio

     Places Where Women Made History

    U.S. Presidents

 

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