How to learn Grade 3: Science
Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) K-5, Grade 3
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1. Science
- 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
- 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
- Fair testing (age 8+): Plan and carry out fair tests in which variables are controlled and failure points are considered to identify aspects of a model or prototype that can be improved
- Seasonal changes (age 8+): Represent data in tables and graphical displays to describe typical weather conditions expected during a particular season
- Weather vs climate: Obtain and combine information to describe climates in different regions of the world, distinguishing between weather and climate
- 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
- 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
- Animal Groups & Survival: Construct an argument that some animals form groups that help members survive, such as herds, packs, or colonies
- 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
- Traits: inherited and environmental: Use evidence to support the explanation that traits can be influenced by the environment as well as inheritance
- Fossils as Evidence: Analyse and interpret data from fossils to provide evidence of organisms and environments that existed long ago
- 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
- 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
- Changing Environments: Recognise that environments can change and that this can sometimes pose dangers and challenges to living things
- 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
- 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
- Magnetic Poles: Describe magnets as having two poles (north and south) and predict whether two magnets will attract or repel based on which poles face each other