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Determine habitat conditions that support plant growth and survival. Examples: deserts support cacti, wetlands support ferns and mosses
Describe the life cycle of plants, including seed, seed germination, growth, and reproduction.
Describing the role of plants in a food chain
Describe Earth's layers, including inner and outer cores, mantle, and crust.
Classifying rocks and minerals by characteristics, including streak, color, hardness, magnetism, luster, and texture
Classify animals as vertebrates or invertebrates and as endotherms or ectotherms.
Classifying common organisms into kingdoms, including Animalia, Plantae, Protista, Fungi, Archaebacteria, and Eubacteria
Classify animals as vertebrates or invertebrates and as endotherms or ectotherms.
Describing the organization of cells into tissues, organs, and organ systems
Describe the interdependence of plants and animals.
Describing life cycles of various animals to include incomplete and complete metamorphosis. Examples: damsel fly, mealworms
The student demonstrates an understanding of the structure and properties of matter by identifying and comparing the characteristics of gases, liquids, and solids.
Recognize how light interacts with transparent, translucent, and opaque materials. Examples: transparent - most light passes through, translucent - some light passes through, opaque - no light passes through
Predicting the reflection or absorption of light by various objects
Describe effects of friction on moving objects.
Identifying momentum and inertia as properties of moving objects
Describe how electrical circuits can be used to produce light, heat, sound, and magnetic fields.
Identifying characteristics of parallel and series circuits
Describe the interdependence of plants and animals.
Tracing the flow of energy through a food chain. Example: producer, first-level consumer, second-level consumer, and third-level consumer
Classify animals as vertebrates or invertebrates and as endotherms or ectotherms.
Describing the grouping of organisms into populations, communities, and ecosystems
The student demonstrates an understanding of geochemical cycles by describing that most smaller rocks come from the breaking and weathering of larger rocks as part of the rock cycle.
The student demonstrates an understanding of how science explains changes in life forms over time, including genetics, heredity, the process of natural selection and biological evolution by describing fossil evidence (e.g., casts, track ways, imprints, etc.) of extinct organisms.
Describe components of our solar system.
Defining comets, asteroids, and meteors
Describe geological features of Earth, including bodies of water, beaches, ocean ridges, continental shelves, plateaus, faults, canyons, sand dunes, and ice caps.
The student demonstrates an understanding of the forces that shape Earth by observing models of how waves, wind, water, and ice shape and reshape the Earth's surface by eroding rock and soil. (L)
Identify conditions that result in specific weather phenomena, including thunderstorms, tornadoes, and hurricanes.
Identifying positive and negative effects of weather phenomena. Examples: positive - flooding deposits good soil when waters recede, negative - flooding kills crops
Lesson Plan Weather - BundleGrade 3
Life Cycles: Understand the life cycles of plants and animals.
Compare life cycles of various plants (e.g., conifers, flowering plants, ferns).
Identify how organisms are classified in the Animalia and Plantae kingdoms.