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SC.3.E.EARTH SCIENCE: EARTH’S MATERIALS AND PROCESSES

EARTH SCIENCE: EARTH’S MATERIALS AND PROCESSES
3.E.4. The student will demonstrate an understanding of the composition of Earth and the processes that shape features of Earth’s surface.
3.E.4A. Conceptual Understanding: Earth is made of materials (including rocks, minerals, soil, and water) that have distinct properties. These materials provide resources for human activities.
Students who demonstrate this understanding can:
3.E.4A.1. Analyze and interpret data from observations and measurements to describe and compare different Earth materials (including rocks, minerals, and soil) and classify each type of material based on its distinct physical properties.
Flip Charts Rocks & Minerals
Flip Charts Science Grade 3
Flip Charts Science Grade 4
Vocabulary Terms Earth - Inside and Out
Vocabulary Terms Rocks and minerals
Vocabulary Terms Rocks, Minerals, and soil
Vocabulary Terms Rocks, Soil and water
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Earth - Inside and Out
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Rocks and minerals
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Rocks, Minerals, and soil
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Rocks, Soil and water
 
3.E.4A.2. Develop and use models to describe and classify the pattern distribution of land and water features on Earth.
Vocabulary Terms Changes on earth
Vocabulary Terms Earth's Waters
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Changes on earth
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Earth's Waters
 
3.E.4A.3. Obtain and communicate information to exemplify how humans obtain, use, and protect renewable and nonrenewable Earth resources.
Vocabulary Terms Natural resources
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Natural resources
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Using and saving natural resources
 
3.E.4B. Conceptual Understanding: Earth’s surface has changed over time by natural processes and by human activities. Humans can take steps to reduce the impact of these changes.
Students who demonstrate this understanding can:
3.E.4B.1. Develop and use models to describe the characteristics of Earth’s continental landforms and classify landforms as volcanoes, mountains, valleys, canyons, plains, and islands.
Vocabulary Terms Changes on earth
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Changes on earth
 
3.E.4B.2. Plan and conduct scientific investigations to determine how natural processes (including weathering, erosion, and gravity) shape Earth’s surface.
Flip Charts Changes on Earth
Flip Charts Science Grade 3
Flip Charts Science Grade 4
Vocabulary Terms Changes on earth
Vocabulary Terms Comparing matter
Vocabulary Terms Earth - Inside and Out
Vocabulary Terms Matter
Vocabulary Terms Matter and its properties
Vocabulary Terms Rocks, Soil and water
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Changes on earth
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Comparing matter
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Earth - Inside and Out
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Matter
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Matter and its properties
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Rocks, Soil and water
 
3.E.4B.3. Obtain and communicate information to explain how natural events (such as fires, landslides, earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, or floods) and human activities (such as farming, mining, or building) impact the environment.
Flip Charts Changes on Earth
Flip Charts Science Grade 3
Flip Charts Science Grade 4
Flip Charts Weather & Climate
Vocabulary Terms Changes on earth
Vocabulary Terms Earth - Inside and Out
Vocabulary Terms Rocks, Soil and water
Vocabulary Terms Weather and climate
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Changes on earth
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Earth - Inside and Out
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Rocks, Soil and water
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Weather and climate
 
3.E.4B.4. Define problems caused by a natural event or human activity and design devices or solutions to reduce the impact on the environment.
Flip Charts Science Grade 4
Flip Charts Weather & Climate
Vocabulary Terms Natural resources
Vocabulary Terms Weather and climate
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Natural resources
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Using and saving natural resources
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Weather and climate
 

SC.3.L.LIFE SCIENCE: ENVIRONMENTS AND HABITATS

LIFE SCIENCE: ENVIRONMENTS AND HABITATS
3.L.5. The student will demonstrate an understanding of how the characteristics and changes in environments and habitats affect the diversity of organisms.
3.L.5A. Conceptual Understanding: The characteristics of an environment (including physical characteristics, temperature, availability of resources, or the kinds and numbers of organisms present) influence the diversity of organisms that live there. Organisms can
Students who demonstrate this understanding can:
3.L.5A.1. Analyze and interpret data about the characteristics of environments (including salt and fresh water, deserts, grasslands, forests, rain forests, and polar lands) to describe how the environment supports a variety of organisms.
Flip Charts Land Habitats
Flip Charts Science Grade 2
Flip Charts Science Grade 4
Flip Charts Water Habitats
Vocabulary Terms Land Habitats
Vocabulary Terms Water Habitats
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Ecosystems and changes in ecosystems
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Land Habitats
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Water Habitats
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Where plants and animals live
 
3.L.5A.2. Develop and use a food chain model to classify organisms as producers, consumers, and decomposers and to describe how organisms obtain energy.
Flip Charts Science Grade 3
Flip Charts Science Grade 4
Vocabulary Terms Food webs/food chains
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Food webs/food chains
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide How do plants and animals live together?
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Relationships among living things
 
3.L.5B. Conceptual Understanding: When the environment or habitat changes, some plants and animals survive and reproduce, some move to new locations, and some die. Fossils can be used to infer characteristics of environments from long ago.
Students who demonstrate this understanding can:
3.L.5B.1. Obtain and communicate information to explain how changes in habitats (such as those that occur naturally or those caused by organisms) can be beneficial or harmful to the organisms that live there.
Vocabulary Terms Introduction to animals
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Ecosystems and changes in ecosystems
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Introduction to animals
 
3.L.5B.2. Develop and use models to explain how changes in a habitat cause plants and animals to respond in different ways (such as hibernating, migrating, responding to light, death, or extinction).
Vocabulary Terms Introduction to animals
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Ecosystems and changes in ecosystems
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Introduction to animals
 
3.L.5B.3. Construct scientific arguments using evidence from fossils of plants and animals that lived long ago to infer the characteristics of early environments.
Flip Charts Science Grade 2
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Fossils and extinct animals
 

SC.3.P.PHYSICAL SCIENCE: PROPERTIES AND CHANGES IN MATTER

PHYSICAL SCIENCE: PROPERTIES AND CHANGES IN MATTER
3.P.2. The student will demonstrate an understanding of the properties used to classify matter and how heat energy can change matter from one state to another.
3.P.2A. Conceptual Understanding: Matter exists in several different states and is classified based on observable and measurable properties. Matter can be changed from one state to another when heat (thermal energy) is added or removed.
Students who demonstrate this understanding can:
3.P.2A.1. Analyze and interpret data from observations and measurements to describe and compare the physical properties of matter (including length, mass, temperature, and volume of liquids).
Flip Charts Science Grade 3
Vocabulary Terms Matter and its properties
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Matter and its properties
 
3.P.2A.2. Construct explanations using observations and measurements to describe how matter can be classified as a solid, liquid or gas.
Flip Charts Science Grade 3
Vocabulary Terms Comparing matter
Vocabulary Terms Matter
Vocabulary Terms Matter and its properties
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Comparing matter
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Matter
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Matter and its properties
 
3.P.2A.3. Plan and conduct scientific investigations to determine how changes in heat (increase or decrease) change matter from one state to another (including melting, freezing, condensing, boiling, and evaporating).
Vocabulary Terms Comparing matter
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Comparing matter
 
3.P.3. The student will demonstrate an understanding of how electricity transfers energy and how magnetism can result from electricity.
3.P.3A. Conceptual Understanding: Energy can be transferred from place to place by electric currents. Electric currents flowing through a simple circuit can be used to produce motion, sound, heat, or light. Some materials allow electricity to flow through a circu
Students who demonstrate this understanding can:
3.P.3A.1. Obtain and communicate information to develop models showing how electrical energy can be transformed into other forms of energy (including motion, sound, heat, or light).
Flip Charts Science Grade 4
 
3.P.3A.2. Develop and use models to describe the path of an electric current in a complete simple circuit as it accomplishes a task (such as lighting a bulb or making a sound).
Flip Charts Science Grade 4
Vocabulary Terms Electricity and magnetism
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Electricity and magnetism
 
3.P.3B. Conceptual Understanding: Magnets can exert forces on other magnets or magnetizable materials causing energy transfer between them, even when the objects are not touching. An electromagnet is produced when an electric current passes through a coil of wire
Students who demonstrate this understanding can:
3.P.3B.1. Develop and use models to describe and compare the properties of magnets and electromagnets (including polarity, attraction, repulsion, and strength).
Flip Charts Science Grade 4
Vocabulary Terms All about sound and light
Vocabulary Terms Electricity and magnetism
Vocabulary Terms Force, motion and energy
Vocabulary Terms Light and sound
Vocabulary Terms Magnets
Vocabulary Terms Sound
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide All about sound and light
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Electricity and magnetism
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Force, motion and energy
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Light and sound
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Magnets
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Sound
 
3.P.3B.2. Plan and conduct scientific investigations to determine the factors that affect the strength of an electromagnet.
Flip Charts Science Grade 4
Vocabulary Terms Electricity and magnetism
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Electricity and magnetism
 

SC.3.P.PHYSICAL SCIENCE: ENERGY TRANSFER-ELECTRICITY AND MAGNETISM

PHYSICAL SCIENCE: ENERGY TRANSFER-ELECTRICITY AND MAGNETISM
3.P.2. The student will demonstrate an understanding of the properties used to classify matter and how heat energy can change matter from one state to another.
3.P.2A. Conceptual Understanding: Matter exists in several different states and is classified based on observable and measurable properties. Matter can be changed from one state to another when heat (thermal energy) is added or removed.
Students who demonstrate this understanding can:
3.P.2A.1. Analyze and interpret data from observations and measurements to describe and compare the physical properties of matter (including length, mass, temperature, and volume of liquids).
Flip Charts Science Grade 3
Vocabulary Terms Matter and its properties
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Matter and its properties
 
3.P.2A.2. Construct explanations using observations and measurements to describe how matter can be classified as a solid, liquid or gas.
Flip Charts Science Grade 3
Vocabulary Terms Comparing matter
Vocabulary Terms Matter
Vocabulary Terms Matter and its properties
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Comparing matter
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Matter
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Matter and its properties
 
3.P.2A.3. Plan and conduct scientific investigations to determine how changes in heat (increase or decrease) change matter from one state to another (including melting, freezing, condensing, boiling, and evaporating).
Vocabulary Terms Comparing matter
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Comparing matter
 
3.P.3. The student will demonstrate an understanding of how electricity transfers energy and how magnetism can result from electricity.
3.P.3A. Conceptual Understanding: Energy can be transferred from place to place by electric currents. Electric currents flowing through a simple circuit can be used to produce motion, sound, heat, or light. Some materials allow electricity to flow through a circu
Students who demonstrate this understanding can:
3.P.3A.1. Obtain and communicate information to develop models showing how electrical energy can be transformed into other forms of energy (including motion, sound, heat, or light).
Flip Charts Science Grade 4
 
3.P.3A.2. Develop and use models to describe the path of an electric current in a complete simple circuit as it accomplishes a task (such as lighting a bulb or making a sound).
Flip Charts Science Grade 4
Vocabulary Terms Electricity and magnetism
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Electricity and magnetism
 
3.P.3B. Conceptual Understanding: Magnets can exert forces on other magnets or magnetizable materials causing energy transfer between them, even when the objects are not touching. An electromagnet is produced when an electric current passes through a coil of wire
Students who demonstrate this understanding can:
3.P.3B.1. Develop and use models to describe and compare the properties of magnets and electromagnets (including polarity, attraction, repulsion, and strength).
Flip Charts Science Grade 4
Vocabulary Terms All about sound and light
Vocabulary Terms Electricity and magnetism
Vocabulary Terms Force, motion and energy
Vocabulary Terms Light and sound
Vocabulary Terms Magnets
Vocabulary Terms Sound
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide All about sound and light
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Electricity and magnetism
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Force, motion and energy
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Light and sound
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Magnets
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Sound
 
3.P.3B.2. Plan and conduct scientific investigations to determine the factors that affect the strength of an electromagnet.
Flip Charts Science Grade 4
Vocabulary Terms Electricity and magnetism
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Electricity and magnetism
 

SC.3.S.SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING PRACTICES

SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING PRACTICES
3.S.1. The student will use the science and engineering practices, including the processes and skills of scientific inquiry, to develop understandings of science content.
3.S.1A. Conceptual Understanding: The practices of science and engineering support the development of science concepts, develop the habits of mind that are necessary for scientific thinking, and allow students to engage in science in ways that are similar to thos
Students who demonstrate this understanding can:
3.S.1A.3. Plan and conduct scientific investigations to answer questions, test predictions and develop explanations: (1) formulate scientific questions and predict possible outcomes, (2) identify materials, procedures, and variables, (3) select and use appropriate
Flip Charts Science Grade 4
Flip Charts Weather & Climate
Vocabulary Terms What is science?
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Hands-on lab skills/Science Inquiry
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Hands-on Lab Skills/Science Inquiry - 3rd grade
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Hands-on Lab Skills/Science Inquiry - 4th grade
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Math in Science - 2nd grade level
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Math in Science - 4th grade
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide What is science?
 
3.S.1A.4. Analyze and interpret data from observations, measurements, or investigations to understand patterns and meanings.
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Hands-on Lab Skills/Science Inquiry - 3rd grade
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Hands-on Lab Skills/Science Inquiry - 4th grade
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Math in Science - 4th grade
 
3.S.1A.5. Use mathematical and computational thinking to (1) express quantitative observations using appropriate English or metric units, (2) collect and analyze data, or (3) understand patterns, trends and relationships.
Flip Charts Science Grade 4
Flip Charts Weather & Climate
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Hands-on lab skills/Science Inquiry
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Hands-on Lab Skills/Science Inquiry - 3rd grade
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Hands-on Lab Skills/Science Inquiry - 4th grade
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Math in Science - 2nd grade level
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Math in Science - 3rd grade
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Math in Science - 4th grade
 
3.S.1A.6. Construct explanations of phenomena using (1) scientific evidence and models, (2) conclusions from scientific investigations, (3) predictions based on observations and measurements, or (4) data communicated in graphs, tables, or diagrams.
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Hands-on lab skills/Science Inquiry
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Hands-on Lab Skills/Science Inquiry - 3rd grade
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Hands-on Lab Skills/Science Inquiry - 4th grade
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Math in Science - 2nd grade level
 
3.S.1A.7. Construct scientific arguments to support claims, explanations, or designs using evidence from observations, data, or informational texts.
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Hands-on Lab Skills/Science Inquiry - 4th grade
 
3.S.1A.8. Obtain and evaluate informational texts, observations, data collected, or discussions to (1) generate and answer questions, (2) understand phenomena, (3) develop models, or (4) support explanations, claims, or designs. Communicate observations and explana
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Hands-on Lab Skills/Science Inquiry - 3rd grade
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Hands-on Lab Skills/Science Inquiry - 4th grade
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Math in Science - 4th grade