Grade 3 History & Geography
A free Grade 3 course from the PGAMO Free K–12 School, built on Core Knowledge History and Geography. Units: World Rivers, Ancient Rome, The Vikings, The Earliest Americans, Canada, Exploration of North America, The Thirteen Colonies.
Every lesson has the chapter’s pages to read right on screen, the Big Question, words to know, talk-it-over questions with answers for the teacher, and activity pages to print. Each unit ends with a short quiz, and every unit has a printable study pack for learning offline.
This course is based on an original work of the Core Knowledge® Foundation (www.coreknowledge.org) made available through licensing under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. This does not in any way imply that the Core Knowledge Foundation endorses this work. PGAMO added the lesson pages, study packs and quizzes layout, and shares them under the same license. CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 · Core Knowledge History and Geography. Free for everyone — this course may never be sold.
Features
- 61 lessons in 7 units
- The books’ pages right in each lesson
- Unit quizzes
- Printable offline study packs
Target audiences
- Grade 3 students
- Homeschool families and co-ops
Requirements
- Nothing to buy — every book is included free
- A parent or teacher to read and talk with younger students
Curriculum
- 8 Sections
- 62 Lessons
- 36 Weeks
- Start here1
- Unit 1: World Rivers8
- 2.1Chapter 1: Rivers Bring Life to Farms and Cities30 Minutes
- 2.2Chapter 2: Rivers Make Our Lives Better30 Minutes
- 2.3Chapter 3: A River Viewed from Above30 Minutes
- 2.4Chapter 4: Dangers and Navigation Along Rivers30 Minutes
- 2.5Chapter 5: Wildlife on Wild Rivers30 Minutes
- 2.6Chapter 6: Three Rivers and Many Waterfalls30 Minutes
- 2.7Chapter 7: Rivers and Trade30 Minutes
- 2.8Unit 1 quiz: World Rivers20 Minutes20 Questions
- Unit 2: Ancient Rome17
- 3.1Chapter 1: Romulus and Remus30 Minutes
- 3.2Chapter 2: Roman Gods and Goddesses30 Minutes
- 3.3Chapter 3: The Roman Republic30 Minutes
- 3.4Chapter 4: The Punic Wars30 Minutes
- 3.5Chapter 5: Julius Caesar30 Minutes
- 3.6Chapter 6: Cleopatra, Queen of Egypt30 Minutes
- 3.7Chapter 7: Julius Caesar Dies30 Minutes
- 3.8Chapter 8: Caesar Augustus30 Minutes
- 3.9Chapter 9: Roman Lands30 Minutes
- 3.10Chapter 10: Roads, Bridges, and Aqueducts30 Minutes
- 3.11Chapter 11: The Buildings of Rome30 Minutes
- 3.12Chapter 12: Gladiators and Chariot Races30 Minutes
- 3.13Chapter 13: Pompeii30 Minutes
- 3.14Chapter 14: The Romans and the Christians30 Minutes
- 3.15Chapter 15: The Decline of the Roman Empire30 Minutes
- 3.16Chapter 16: East and West30 Minutes
- 3.17Unit 2 quiz: Ancient Rome20 Minutes22 Questions
- Unit 3: The Vikings7
- Unit 4: The Earliest Americans8
- 5.1Chapter 1: Beringia: The Land Bridge30 Minutes
- 5.2Chapter 2: America’s First Settlers30 Minutes
- 5.3Chapter 3: People of the Far North30 Minutes
- 5.4Chapter 4: Ancestral Pueblo and Mound Builders30 Minutes
- 5.5Chapter 5: After the Ancestral Pueblo30 Minutes
- 5.6Chapter 6: After the Mound Builders30 Minutes
- 5.7Chapter 7: The Eastern Woodlands30 Minutes
- 5.8Unit 4 quiz: The Earliest Americans20 Minutes20 Questions
- Unit 5: Canada4
- Unit 6: Exploration of North America7
- 7.1Chapter 1: Early Spanish Explorers30 Minutes
- 7.2Chapter 2: De Soto’s Long March30 Minutes
- 7.3Chapter 3: The Search for El Dorado30 Minutes
- 7.4Chapter 4: Spanish North America30 Minutes
- 7.5Chapter 5: Exploring for England30 Minutes
- 7.6Chapter 6: Champlain and New France30 Minutes
- 7.7Unit 6 quiz: Exploration of North America20 Minutes15 Questions
- Unit 7: The Thirteen Colonies17
- 8.1Chapter 1: The English Colonies30 Minutes
- 8.2Chapter 2: Starting the Virginia Colony30 Minutes
- 8.3Chapter 3: Captain John Smith30 Minutes
- 8.4Chapter 4: Changing Times in Jamestown30 Minutes
- 8.5Chapter 5: Virginia Succeeds30 Minutes
- 8.6Chapter 6: The Story of Maryland30 Minutes
- 8.7Chapter 7: Plantations in South Carolina30 Minutes
- 8.8Chapter 8: The Story of Georgia30 Minutes
- 8.9Chapter 9: The Pilgrims Come to America30 Minutes
- 8.10Chapter 10: Plymouth: The Pilgrim Colony30 Minutes
- 8.11Chapter 11: The Massachusetts Bay Colony30 Minutes
- 8.12Chapter 12: Living in a Puritan Colony30 Minutes
- 8.13Chapter 13: The Story of Rhode Island30 Minutes
- 8.14Chapter 14: The Middle Colonies30 Minutes
- 8.15Chapter 15: New York: A Dutch Settlement30 Minutes
- 8.16Chapter 16: William Penn and the Quakers30 Minutes
- 8.17Unit 7 quiz: The Thirteen Colonies20 Minutes18 Questions
Instructor

Founder and Director of Pentecostal Gospel Assemblies
