Pelangi Primary Education Smart Plus Social Studies P3 TextBook samplebook

Studies

Sasithorn Onlao

ISBN 978-616-541-343-5 First Published 2021

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Sasithorn Onlao

Main Features A-Z

States the learning objectives of the chapter.

Provides practical activities to enhance students’ knowledge and skill.

Defines important terms appearing in the chapter.

Presents extra information relevant to the concept being learnt.

Consists of questions that promote thinking skills.

Provides exercises to test students’ comprehension of the concepts learnt.

Evaluates students’ understanding of the entire chapter.

Consists of various exercises covering this unit.

Special Features CHAPTER

Stimulates fun learning through role play activities which encourage students to understand relevant content they have learnt in the class and enjoy their performances.

Serves as an activity that teaches students to share things with others, learn to be generous and make contributions to community, society and the country.

CHAPTER 2

Raises social awareness of compliance with law and rules among students for living in peace.

Serves as an activity enabling students to learn sharing with others and volunteer spirit in order to live happily in the society.

Stimulates students’ confidence and boosts the speaking skills in public through the activity of being a news reporter.

CHAPTER 3 ฿ Presents a weekly budget planner that helps students know their expenses every day, enabling them to plan their spending carefully and understand the importance of saving money.

Allows students to practise how to plan and invest their money, run a business, and stimulate creativity, together with cost and profit estimation.

Stimulates students’ creativity and assertiveness through product review, as well as capability in analysing strengths and weaknesses of the products.

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Develops students’ creativity in presentation through the organisation of exhibition, together with disseminating information of what they have searched to others.

Encourages students to understand the historical methodology through the investigation of historical evidence and know how to work as a team.

Enables students to investigate, collect, analyse, and summarise data for better understanding, as well as boosting skills in presentation.

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Encourages students to learn how to draw a plan and read a map to enhance their comprehension of location and direction.

Develops students’ skills in observation and understanding of location, direction and symbols on a map.

Boosts students’ confidence through the fun activity of weather report by integrating what they have learnt in the class with the weather information they have searched.

Contents CHAPTER

Religion, Morality and Ethics

Unit 1 Religious Places

Religious Places

Unit 2 Religious Day and Moral Principle

1 2 3

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Buddhist Day

8

Moral Principle

10

Unit 3 The Story of the Buddha’s Previous Lives

Bodhisatta the Merchant and the King of Naga

Voluntary Spirit Role Play Test

CHAPTER 2

Our Way of Life

Unit 1 Community Life

13 14

18 19 21

23 24

Tradition and Culture

25

Important Official Holidays

37

Exemplary Member of Community

45

Rule of Thumb Volunteer for All Young Reporters

50 51

51

Unit 2 Democratic Principles

52

The Democratic Method

53

Democracy in the School

57

Democracy in the Community

60

Rule of Thumb Volunteer for All Young Reporters Test

CHAPTER 3

Economic Activities Around Us

Unit 1 Goods and Services

67 67

67 69

72 73

Types of Goods and Services

74

Choosing Goods and Services

78

Production and Consumption

81

Expenditure

91

Unit 2 Tax

96

Taxes and National Development

97

Responsibilities of People in the Payment of Taxes

99

Goods and Services Provided by the Government

102

Track My Spending Market Fair Young YouTubers Test

107

108 108 111

CHAPTER

4 History

114

Unit 1 Calendar

115

Types of Year Numbering Systems

116

How to Convert Them

117

Sequence of Events

117

Unit 2 Community Settlement

Factors of Community Settlement and Development

Unit 3 Our Kings

120 121

126

King Buddha Yodfa Chulaloke the Great

127

His Majesty King Bhumibol Adulyadej The Great

128

His Majesty King Maha Vajiralongkorn

Phra Vajiraklaochaoyuhua

Little Historians Little Gallery Little Guide Test

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Our Environment

Unit 1 Our Community

131

134 135 135 137

139 140

Physical Characteristics

141

Relationship Between Environment and Life

143

Urban and Rural Communities

144

Let’s Take a Tour Finding Hidden Treasure Weather Reporters

149 150

151

Unit 2 Geographical Information

152

Locations

153

Diagrams

153

Maps

155

Photographs

160

Tools to Determine Locations

162

Let’s Take a Tour Finding Hidden Treasure

167 168

Weather Reporters

169

Unit 3 Our Environment and Natural Resources

170

The Environment in the Past and at Present

171

Reliance on Environments and Natural Resources

175

Changes to the Environment

179

Environmental Pollution

180

Let’s Take a Tour Finding Hidden Treasure Weather Reporters Test

187 188

188 190

CHAPTER

1

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Religion, Morality and Ethics

s How do religion nce make a differe nity? to your commu

UNIT

1

1

Re igious P aces

Give some examples of religious places situated in each region of Thailand, together with their importance.

A-Z

1. Tell the names and importance of, and behave appropriately towards, religious objects, places and persons of students’ own religions.

2. Conduct themselves appropriately and correctly towards the disciples, places of worship, and religious objects of their religions as prescribed.

3. Explain the importance of Buddhism or that of students’ own religions as a significant foundation of Thai culture.

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1. Worship (N.) the act of showing respect to God through praying 2. Conduct (V.) to behave in a specified way 3. Perform (V.) to do something or carry out a task 4. Disciple (N.) a follower who believes in the ideas of a great teacher

Buddhism has greatly influenced and involved Thai culture and traditions.

Several Thai traditions, such as the candle procession and the festival

of floral offerings, originated from Buddhist rites. Many fields of Thai art were created to serve Buddhism, for example, architecture, sculpture,

paintings, literature, and many more. Temples, Buddha images and mural paintings are clear evidence of Thai art involving Buddhism.

On Buddhist days, Thai people go to temples to participate in religious activities. A temple is a religious place where Buddhists gather to perform

religious rites, make merit and listen to the Buddha’s sermons. It is regarded

as a spiritual centre for Buddhists. It is also used for public assemblies for social development.

Each religion has its own religious place where believers perform religious

activities or participate in rituals to show their faith. Therefore, believers are required to conduct themselves appropriately towards it.

Religious Places Each religion has its own place of worship which is used to hold religious activities for its believers. Let’s look at some examples.

Buddhism – temple A temple is used for Wien Tien ceremony, praying and practising

meditation, as well as monks’ residences.

As Buddhism is the most widely practised religion in Thailand, we can see a lot of temples in every region.

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Religious Places

3

Christianity – church A church is used for baptism, Holy Communion, confession and other rituals performed by priests and Christians.

Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception

(อาสนวิหารพระนางมารีอาปฏิสนธินิรมล) in Chanthaburi Province

Islam – mosque A mosque is used for praying, holding religious festivals and a place of assembly for Muslims.

Pattani Central Mosque in Pattani Province

Aside from places of worship, each religion also has its own symbol.

Buddhism The Dhamma Wheel

Christianity The cross

Islam The crescent and the star

Religious places, objects and disciples are worshipped by believers.

Therefore, it is necessary to pay respect and conduct ourselves properly towards them. The following are good manners that should be adopted.

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1. Pay respect to religious places, objects and disciples.

2. Dress properly when going to a religious place.

3. Conduct ourselves properly, both physically and verbally, when going to a religious place or being around religious objects and disciples.

4. Do not cause damage to religious places and objects.

5. Be polite towards disciples.

Divide yourselves into groups of 4 to 5 people.

Collect

information

about

how

Buddhism has an influence on Thai culture in various aspects such as architecture, art,

literature, festival, tradition or daily living.

Then, present your findings to your friends.

Let’s practise meditation by following the steps below.

1. Choose a small doll or toy.

2. Lay down with your back on the floor and place the object on your belly.

3. For three minutes, breathe in and out slowly, and observe the object on your belly. How is its movement related to your breathing rhythm?

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Religious Places

5

Where can you find these religious objects or disciples? Match them to the right places.

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UNIT

2

Re igious Day and Mora Princip e

What will happen if everyone ignores morality?

A-Z

1. Appreciate the value of and conduct themselves correctly in religious rites and ceremonies and on important religious days as prescribed.

2. Pay respect to the Triple Gem and observe the principles of the Three Admonitions of the Buddha in Buddhism, or the moral principles of students’ own religions as prescribed.

3. Tell the meaning and importance of the Tipitaka (the three divisions of the Buddhist Canon) or the scriptures of students’ own religions.

1. Deed (N.) an action that is performed intentionally 2. Ritual (N.) a religious ceremony performed to mark an important occasion 3. Sympathy (N.) the feeling of sorrow and care for someone else’s suffering 4. Profess (V.) to affirm one’s faith in a religion or set of beliefs

4. Profess themselves as Buddhists or believers of their religions.

UNIT 2

Religious Day and Moral Principle

7

Moral principles are religious doctrines teaching what is right and wrong.

They serve as guidelines for people in society to live together peacefully.

Moral principles are especially appreciated on religious days in which believers perform rites and remind themselves to do good deeds.

Buddhist Day Buddhist Lent Day Origin In the past, monks travelled all year round to teach the Buddha’s sermons

to people in different places. As a result, crops that were stepped on

repeatedly were destroyed and monks were widely blamed. So, the Buddha ordered them to stay at their places during the rainy season which falls on the day after the full moon day of the eighth Thai lunar month and

ends on the full moon day of the eleventh Thai lunar month. Since then, monks are required to stay in their temples and avoid unnecessary travel every year.

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Religious activities Buddhist Lent Day is the first day of the three-month period which is the day after the full moon day

of the eighth Thai lunar month.

On this day, Buddhists go to temples

to offer food and other necessities to monks, and listen to the Buddha’s sermons. They also participate in

Offering food to monks

candle casting which usually takes place a week before Buddhist Lent Day.

Candle casting is a process of making

a Buddhist Lent candle. In the past,

there was no electricity. Therefore, people prepared and offered large

candles, also known as Buddhist

Lent candles, to monks who had

to stay at their temples for three months, so that they could use

Candle casting

them while praying and studying the Buddha’s sermons at night.

After the candles are made, there will be a candle procession before presenting candles to monks. Presently, the candle processions are held

across the country every year as an important tradition on Buddhist Lent Day.

Aside from praying and participating in religious rituals, Buddhists are usually careful with their actions, words and mind, keep the Five Precepts, as well as reminding themselves to do good deeds.

UNIT 2

Religious Day and Moral Principle

9

Moral Principle Four objects of sympathy The moral principles we learn are four objects of sympathy (สังคหวัตถุ 4).

They are moral principles that teach people how they should build and

maintain good relationships with others and consist of the following process:

Generosity (ทาน)

means willingly giving or sharing our

things with others such as food, clothes or medicine because we want to help them.

Kindly speech (ปิยวาจา)

includes using polite words and telling

the truth, as well as speaking something useful.

Useful conduct (อัตถจริยา)

is helping other people without expecting anything in return.

Even and equal treatment (สมานัตตตา)

means behaving ourselves properly in

all circumstances and treating people equally.

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The Primary Education Smart Plus Series is written based on the Basic Education Curriculum B.E. 2551.

• Learn Traditional Thai as well as universal social norms and etiquette described in detail.

• Analyse Numerous situations given for analysis and decision-making regarding socially acceptable behaviour.

• Assess

Plenty of exercises provided to evaluate students’ understanding of social values learnt.

• Main Features

Learning about things around us to adapt ourselves to the environment for living in the society without disunity.

• Special Features Learning by doing the activities that encourage how to keep up with the changing situations.

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