How to learn Grade 3: Science

Nebraska academic standards: Science, Grade 3

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1. Weather and Climate · Gather and analyze data to communicate an understanding of weather and climate.

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
2. Seasonal changes (age 8+): Represent data in tables and graphical displays to describe typical weather conditions expected during a particular season
3. Weather vs climate: Obtain and combine information to describe climates in different regions of the world, distinguishing between weather and climate
4. Reading Weather Maps: Read and interpret weather maps, data tables, and graphs — identifying symbols for sun, rain, wind, and temperature; spotting trends and patterns in weather data over weeks, months, or seasons; and using data to make simple predictions

2. Inheritance and Variation: Life Cycles and Traits · Gather and analyze data to communicate an understanding of inheritance and variation of traits through life cycles and environmental influences.

1. Inheritance Vocabulary: Use vocabulary for variation and inheritance — inherited characteristic, acquired characteristic, variation, offspring, trait, species, breed, genetic, environment — and apply these when comparing organisms and explaining similarities and differences within and between species
2. 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
3. Traits: inherited and environmental: Use evidence to support the explanation that traits can be influenced by the environment as well as inheritance

3. Interdependent Relationships in Ecosystems · Gather, analyze, and communicate evidence of the interdependent relations in ecosystems.

1. Habitats & Basic Needs: Identify that most living things live in habitats to which they are suited and describe how habitats provide for basic needs and how organisms depend on each other
2. Changing Environments: Recognise that environments can change and that this can sometimes pose dangers and challenges to living things
3. Fossils as Evidence: Analyse and interpret data from fossils to provide evidence of organisms and environments that existed long ago
4. Animal Groups & Survival: Construct an argument that some animals form groups that help members survive, such as herds, packs, or colonies

4. Forces and Interactions: Motion and Stability SC.3.1.1 Gather, analyze, and communicate evidence of · Gather, analyze, and communicate evidence of forces and their interactions.

1. 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
2. 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)
3. Predicting Motion Patterns: Make observations and measurements of an object's motion to provide evidence that a pattern can be used to predict future motion