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What your third grader needs to know : fundamentals of a good third-grade education / edited by E.D. Hirsch, Jr.

What your 3rd grader needs to know (portion title)

Hirsch, E. D., Jr. (Eric Donald), 1928- (editor.).

Summary:

"A revised and updated edition of the bestselling definitive Core Knowledge guide for parents and teachers of third grade-age children, featuring all new full-color photographs and illustrations and revised material"-- Provided by publisher.

Record details

ISBN: 9780553394665
ISBN: 0553394665
Physical Description: xxxv, 489 pages : illustrated (some color), maps (some color) ; 24 cm.
Edition: Revised and updated.
Publisher: New York : Bantam, 2015.
Copyright: ©2015

Content descriptions

General Note:	"Support Common Core achievement with readings and activities in literature, mathematics, science, the arts." --cover
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Language and literature. Literature - poetry - stories - mythology ; Learning about literature - biography - familiar sayings and phrases; Learning about language -- History and Geography. World history and geography - look at the legend - great rivers of the world - Ancient Rome - The Vikings ; American History and Geography - Crossing the land bridge - The Inuits - The Mound Builders - Cliff dwellers : the Anasazi - The Pueblo people - The Apaches and the Navajoes - Eastern Woodland Peoples - A day with Little Thunder - Early Explorers in North America - English colonies in North America ; Visual Arts -- Music. Elements of Musics - Composers and their music - Some songs for Third Graders -- Mathematics - multiplication - Division - Numbers ; Working with numbers - addition and subtraction - Sums and differences of four-digit numbers - time, money, and graphs - geometry - measurement - multiplication - division - Roman Numerals - fractions -- Science. Classifying animals - Vertebrates and invertebrates ; The Human body - the skeletal and muscular systems - the human body : the brain and nervous system ; Light and vision ; Sound and hearing ; Astronomy - Our solar system - Constellations - Space shuttle - Nicolaus Copernicus - WOmen on the final frontier ; Ecology. Living things depend on one another - Pollution - John Muir.