Grade 3 Fall History - Local History and Landmarks: The Stories of THIS Place
History · CUL
G3 (cross-strand capstone integrating CHR + HIS + GEO + CIV + CUL + ECO; D4.2.3-5; D4.3.3-5; CA HSS 3.3.3; TEKS 3.18.A-B)
hist.g3.f.cul.capstone_walking_tour
Produce one local-landmark entry for the class Local History Walking Tour Field Guide
Synthesize all unit threads into one 4-page Walking Tour Field Guide entry on one chosen local landmark, civic figure, or place-name origin. The entry includes: landmark name + photo + grid reference (page 1); 6-8 sentence story with primary-source citation and one Voice-Audit reflection (page 2); hand-drawn map with title + compass + scale + legend showing how to find the landmark (page 3); source citation and thank-you panel (page 4). Present at the lesson 18 capstone gallery.
Mastery threshold
80%
Min instances
4
Typical minutes
60
Spaced intervals (days)
1, 3, 7, 14, 30, 60
Prereqs
- Build a local-place timeline from time-immemorial Indigenous presence to today
- Identify the local Indigenous nation as the foundational layer of this place
- Describe the layered settlement history of the local place
- Use a historic newspaper article as a primary source via the Wineburg 4-question routine
- Use a historic photograph as a primary source via the Wineburg 4-question routine
- Conduct a 6-question local-history interview with a community elder
- Read a plaque or monument inscription as a primary source
- Use an old building's architecture as a primary source via the 5-feature observation routine
- Apply the Voice-Audit Wheel - ask 'whose voice is missing?' of a local source
- Corroborate multiple sources about one local event
- Read and use a map's title, compass rose, scale bar, and legend
- Use 4-figure and 6-figure grid references to locate places on a map
- Use nested scales to relate neighborhood, town/city, and region
- Describe the structure of local government and how local decisions get made
- Draft a plaque proposal letter for an unrecognized local person, place, or event
- Identify one local industry of the past and one of today
Successors
No declared successors.
Common misconceptions
- Skipping the Voice-Audit reflection (the unit's central historiographic move must appear in the entry)
- Skipping the source citation (every entry must cite at least one primary source)
- Producing a tourism-style entry that omits marginalized voices (the entry must do the historian's work)