How to learn Grade 3: Science

Massachusetts academic standards: Science, Grade 3

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1. Technology/Engineering · Engineering Design

1. Comparing Design Solutions: Analyse data from tests of two objects designed to solve the same problem to compare the strengths and weaknesses of each design
2. Simple Design Problems: Define a simple design problem reflecting a need or want that includes specified criteria for success and constraints on materials, time, or cost
3. Comparing Possible Solutions: Generate and compare multiple possible solutions to a problem based on how well each is likely to meet the criteria and constraints

2. Physical Science · Motion and Stability: Forces and Interactions

1. Contact & Non-Contact Forces: Notice that some forces need contact between two objects (contact forces) while magnetic forces can act at a distance (non-contact forces)
2. Magnetic Materials: Observe how magnets attract or repel each other and attract some materials and not others
3. Balanced & Unbalanced Forces: Plan and conduct an investigation to provide evidence of the effects of balanced and unbalanced forces on the motion of an object

3. Life Science · Biological Evolution: Unity and Diversity

1. Variation & Survival Advantage: Use evidence to explain how variations in characteristics among individuals of the same species may provide advantages in surviving, finding mates, and reproducing
2. How animals adapt to environments: Identify how animals and plants are adapted to suit their environment and understand that adaptation may lead to evolution over time
3. Fossils as Evidence: Analyse and interpret data from fossils to provide evidence of organisms and environments that existed long ago

4. Life Science · Heredity: Inheritance and Variation of Traits

1. Inherited characteristics: Analyse and interpret data to provide evidence that plants and animals have traits inherited from parents and that variation of these traits exists in a group of similar organisms
2. Traits: inherited and environmental: Use evidence to support the explanation that traits can be influenced by the environment as well as inheritance

5. Life Science · From Molecules to Organisms: Structures and Processes

1. Life Cycles of Organisms: Develop models to describe that organisms have unique and diverse life cycles but all share the common stages of birth, growth, reproduction, and death

6. Earth and Space Sciences · Earth and Human Activity

1. Designing for Weather Hazards: Make a claim about the merit of a design solution that reduces the impacts of a weather-related hazard such as flooding, wind damage, or extreme temperatures

7. Earth and Space Sciences · Earth's Systems

1. Seasonal changes (age 8+): Represent data in tables and graphical displays to describe typical weather conditions expected during a particular season
2. Weather vs climate: Obtain and combine information to describe climates in different regions of the world, distinguishing between weather and climate

8. History and Social Science and the Standards for Literacy (Pre-K - 5)

1. Drawing conclusions from evidence (age 9+): Report and present findings including conclusions, causal relationships, explanations, and a degree of trust in results using oral and written forms