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PE with a Hint of History

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Third graders engage in a lesson which combines learned history/social studies facts with PE skills. They arrange large pictures of famous people, inventions, countries etc., that correspond with the history lessons they have just been exposed to.

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3rd
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Social Studies & History
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45 mins
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