3rd Grade Curriculum

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Suggested Activities and Resources

3rd Grade Physical Science

3.1

Students will measure temperature using thermometers and describe relationship to hot and cold./03.03.01

Measurement
Resource: ESS pg. 106 - 136 (Meteorology)
Resource: ESS pg. 397 - 407 (Measuring Systems and Instruments)

3.2

Students will describe how a solid changes into a liquid, then to a gas in terms of observable and implied properties (i.e. water vapor as a gas is not seen and not felt and has no odor)./03.03.02

Water
Resource: ESS pg. 30 - 52 (Liquids)
pg. 53 - 68 (Gases)

3.3

Students will manipulate materials to demonstrate the application of heating and cooling to change the state of matter. 03.05.02

Water
Resource: ESS pg. 53 - 68

3.4

Students will accurately predict will sink or float in air or water and can classify then on the basis of this behavior./01.05.04

Water
AIMS activities: Sink or Float
Resource: ESS pg. 30 - 52 (Liquids)

3.5

Students will conduct experiments that demonstrate relationships among surface area and rates of evaporation and condensation.

13.05.03

Water
Resource: ESS pg. 30 - 52 (Liquids)

3.6

Students will observe and describe that water can be a liquid or a solid, and explain that changes in temperature can cause water to go back and forth from one form to another.

13.03.03

Water
Requires some modification.
Resource: ESS pg. 30 - 52 (Liquids)

3rd Grade Life Science

3.7

Students will observe and describe the growth of a plant (e.g., a bean plant) over time and identify plant growth patterns (e.g., sprouting of seeds, formation of roots, leaves and stems, development of flowers and seeds); observe and describe the life cycle of a domestic animal and an animal that undergoes metamorphosis (e.g., a frog, butterfly, or mealworm)./06.03.01

Structures of Life
Resource: ESS pg. 154 - 169 (Plants)
Resource: ESS pg. 182 - 197 (Ecology)

3.8

Students will classify plants and animals representative of major groups (e.g., evergreen vs. deciduous trees, animals with an external, internal or no skeleton, etc.) with few errors./06.03.02

Structures of Life
Resource: ESS pg. 182 - 197 (Ecology)

3.9

Students will describe the needs of living organisms. /06.03.03

Structures of Life
Resource: ESS pg. 182 - 197 (Ecology)

3.10

Students will describe with examples how various living things behave differently under differing conditions (e.g. migration, coloration, hibernation)./07.03.01

Structures of Life
Resource: ESS pg. 182 - 197 (Ecology)

3.11

Students will give examples of how offspring may resemble parents and other siblings. 08.03.01

Structures of Life
Resource: ESS pg. 182 - 197 (Ecology)

3.12

Students will sort a group of living things by appearance and behavior and give rational justification of the sort with minimal help./08.03.02

Structures of Life
Resource: ESS pg. 182 - 197 (Ecology)

3.13

Students will illustrate by providing diverse examples of the many different kinds of living things that exists on earth./09.03.01

Structures of Life
Resource: ESS pg. 182 - 197 (Ecology)

3.14

Students will provide examples of how particular features of plants and animals help them live in different kinds of places./09.03.02

Structures of Life
Resource: ESS pg. 182 - 197 (Ecology)

3.15

Students will observe and describe with examples that some changes are so slow (e.g., the growth of a plant, the movement of an hour hand on a clock) or so fast (e.g., lightning strikes, eye blinks, the change from dark to light when a light is turned on) that they are hard to see while they happen./ 12.03.01

The Structures of Life
Water
Resource: ESS pg. 30 - 52 (Liquids)

3.16

Students will observe and describe that some objects that give off light (e.g., small light bulbs, the sun) also give off heat./13.03.01

Structures of Life
Weather: Douglas County kit
Grow Lab
Resource: ESS pg. 240 - 260 (Light)
Resource: ESS pg. 261 - 282 (Heat)

3.17

Students will identify some similarities and differences found in animals and plants that help them live in their unique habitat./15.03.01

Structures of Life
Resource: ESS pg. 182 - 197 (Ecology)

3.18

Students will describe using examples, several ways organisms interact with each other./15.03.02

Structures of Life
Resource: ESS pg. 182 - 197 (Ecology)

3.19

Students will relate sensory input to behavioral response with reasonable assistance./07.05.01

Structures of Life

3.20

Students will develop a reasonable plan to teach an organism a learned behavior ./07.05.02

Structures of Life

3.21

Students will explain with minor errors, how living things are classified by similar features, behaviors, and/or habits./08.05.02

Structures of Life

3.22

Students will illustrate by providing several examples how there are variations among individuals within a population of a certain species./08.05.03

Structures of Life

3.23

Students will relate reproduction to the continuation of every species./08.05.04

Structures of Life

3.24

Students will classify animals and plants according to their physical characteristics with minimal help./09.05.01

Structures of Life

3rd Grade Earth/Environmental Science

3.25

Students will observe and describe the way the ground, water, and the air feels in the shade versus the sunlight./13.02.01

Weather: Douglas County kit
Resource: ESS pg. 106 - 136 (Meteorology)

3.26

Students will conduct experiments that demonstrate relationships among temperature, relative humidity, air movement, and rates of evaporation and condensation. /3.05.03

Weather: Douglas County kit
Speakers: ex. Meteorologists from news channels

3.27

Students will contrast personal basic minimal resource needs (food/water, shelter, warmth) to actual resource use; suggest ways that personal uses of limited resources can be reduced./16.05.04

Current Events study
Silver Burdett: Reading series (3rd)
Recycling Activities
Videos: See attached list
Environmental Education Directory: See reference
State Department of Environmental Protection activities

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