Choose the Best Way to Share (Grade 3)
Free printable HASS inquiry skills worksheet for Grade 3. Students choose the best format for sharing findings and sequence a gold rush recount using its dates.
Grade 3 · Social Studies worksheet
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Social Studies
Choose the Best Way to Share
Circle the best format for each purpose, then number the recount events in time order (1 = first). Extension (not marked): present your ordered recount to a partner.
- 1.You want to show the order of events that led to your town being founded. Which format fits best?
- a) A map
- b) A timeline
- c) A bar graph
- d) A written report
- e) A poster
- 2.You want to invite families to come along to the school fete. Which format fits best?
- a) A map
- b) A timeline
- c) A bar graph
- d) A written report
- e) A poster
- 3.You want to show a new student where the canteen, library and hall are. Which format fits best?
- a) A map
- b) A timeline
- c) A bar graph
- d) A written report
- e) A poster
- 4.You want to show the order of the gold rush events you studied this term. Which format fits best?
- a) A map
- b) A timeline
- c) A bar graph
- d) A written report
- e) A poster
- 5.You want to explain everything your group found out, with the sources you used listed at the end. Which format fits best?
- a) A map
- b) A timeline
- c) A bar graph
- d) A written report
- e) A poster
- 6.You want to show which streets in town were affected by the flood. Which format fits best?
- a) A map
- b) A timeline
- c) A bar graph
- d) A written report
- e) A poster
- 7.The Burke and Wills expedition ends in tragedy (1861)
- 8.Edward Hargraves claims a gold find near Bathurst (1851)
- 9.Miners raise the Eureka flag at the Eureka Stockade in Ballarat (1854)
- 10.The last convict ship arrives in Western Australia (1868)
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Accuracy and sources
These references support the historical wording and answer key on this worksheet.
- National Museum of Australia, Defining Moments — Dates used in the sequencing items (gold at Bathurst 1851, Eureka Stockade 1854, Burke and Wills 1861, last convict ship 1868, Federation 1901, Parliament House 1927) checked against the museum's Defining Moments entries.