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PA.3.1. Biological Sciences 3.1.A. Organisms and Cells Form and Function 3.1.3.A5. Identify the structures in plants that are responsible for food production, support, water transport, reproduction, growth, and protection.
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Common Characteristics of Life 3.1.3.A1. Describe characteristics of living things that help to identify and classify them.
Energy Flow 3.1.3.A2. Describe the basic needs of living things and their dependence on light, food, air, water, and shelter.
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Animals
3.1.B. Genetics Heredity 3.1.3.B1. Understand that plants and animals closely resemble their parents.
Unifying Themes 3.1.3.B5. PATTERNS: Identify characteristics that appear in both parents and offspring.
3.1.C. Evolution Adaptation 3.1.3.C2. Describe animal characteristics that are necessary for survival.
Unifying Themes 3.1.3.C3. CONSTANCY AND CHANGE: Recognize that fossils provide us with information about living things that inhabited the Earth long ago.
PA.3.2. Physical Sciences: Chemistry and Physics Physical Sciences: Chemistry and Physics
3.2.A. Chemistry Reactions 3.2.3.A4. Use basic reactions to demonstrate observable changes in properties of matter (e.g., burning, cooking).
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Structure of Matter 3.2.3.A2. Recognize that all objects and materials in the world are made of matter.
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Matter
Unifying Themes 3.2.3.A5. CONSTANCY AND CHANGE: Recognize that everything is made of matter.
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Matter & Energy 3.2.3.A3. Demonstrate how heating and cooling may cause changes in the properties of materials including phase changes.
3.2.B. Physics Force & Motion of Particles and Rigid Bodies 3.2.3.B1. Explain how movement can be described in many ways.
Nature of Waves (Sound and Light Energy) 3.2.3.B5. Recognize that light travels in a straight line until it strikes an object or travels from one material to another.
PA.3.3. Earth and Space Sciences 3.3.A. Earth Structure, Processes and Cycles Water 3.3.3.A4. Connect the various forms of precipitation to the weather in a particular place and time.
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Earth Features and the Processes that Change It 3.3.3.A1. Explain and give examples of the ways in which soil is formed.
Weather and Climate 3.3.3.A5. Explain how air temperature, moisture, wind speed and direction, and precipitation make up the weather in a particular place and time.
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Earth’s Resources/Materials 3.3.3.A2. Identify the physical properties of minerals and demonstrate how minerals can be tested for these different physical properties.
3.3.B. Origin and Evolution of the Universe Composition and Structure 3.3.3.B1. Relate the rotation of the earth and day/night, to the apparent movement of the sun, moon, and stars across the sky. Describe the changes that occur in the observable shape of the moon over the course of a month.
PA.3.4. Technology and Engineering Education Technology and Engineering Education
3.4.B. Technology and Society Technology and Environment 3.4.3.B2. Explain how materials are reused or recycled.
Technology and History 3.4.3.B4. Illustrate how people have made tools to provide food, clothing, and shelter.
3.4.E. The Designed World Medical Technologies 3.4.3.E1. Identify the technologies that support and improve quality of life.
Agricultural and Related Biotechnologies 3.4.3.E2. Identify some processes used in agriculture that require different procedures, products, or systems.
PA.SI. Science as Inquiry SI.3. Understand that all scientific investigations involve asking and answering questions and comparing the answer with what is already known.
SI.5. Use simple equipment (tools and other technologies) to gather data and understand that this allows scientists to collect more information than relying only on their senses to gather information.
SI.6. Use data/evidence to construct explanations and understand that scientists develop explanations based on their evidence and compare them with their current scientific knowledge.