Ancient Greece (3rd grade)

Virginia Standards of Learning Addressed:

• 3.1 The student will explain how the contributions of ancient Greece has influenced the present world in terms of architecture, government and sports.

• 3.4 The student will develop map skills by:
  
  a) locating Greece
  
  b) describing the physical and human characteristics of Greece
  
  c) explaining how the people of Greece adapted to and/or changed their environment to meet their needs

• 3.6 The student will interpret geographic information from maps, tables, graphs, and charts.

• 3.7 The student will explain how producers use natural resources (water, soil, wood, and coal), human resources (people at work), and capital resources (machines, tools, and buildings) to produce goods and services for consumers.
   

• 3.8 The student will recognize the concepts of specialization (being an expert in one job, product or service) and interdependence (depending on others) in the production of goods and services (in ancient Greece and in the present).