3rd Grade

Motion and Stability: Forces and Interactions

• 3.PS2.1(Standard)

  Plan and conduct investigations on the effects of balanced and unbalanced forces on the motion of an object.

• 3.PS2.2(Standard)

  Make observations and/or measurements of an object’s motion to provide evidence that a pattern can be used to predict future motion.

• 3.PS2.3(Standard)

  Ask questions to determine cause and effect relationships of electric or magnetic interactions between two objects not in contact with each other.

• 3.PS2.4(Standard)

  Define a simple design problem that can be solved by applying scientific ideas about magnets.*

From Molecules to Organisms: Structure and Function

• 3.LS1.1(Standard)

  Develop and use models to describe that organisms have unique and diverse life cycles but all have a common pattern of birth, growth, reproduction, and death.

Heredity: Inheritance and Variation of Traits

• 3.LS2.1(Standard)

  Construct an argument that some animals form groups that help members survive.

Heredity: Inheritance and Variation of Traits

• 3.LS3.1

  Analyze 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.LS3.2(Standard)

  Use evidence to support the explanation that traits can be influenced by the environment.

Biological Unity and Diversity

• 3.LS4.1(Standard)

  Analyze and interpret data from fossils to provide evidence of the organisms and the environments in which they lived long ago.

• 3.LS4.2(Standard)

  Use evidence to construct an explanation for how the variations in characteristics among individuals of the same species may provide advantages in surviving and reproducing.

• 3.LS4.3(Standard)

  Construct an argument with evidence that in a particular habitat some organisms can survive well, some survive less well, and some cannot survive at all.

• 3.LS4.4(Standard)

  Make a claim about the merit of a solution to a problem caused when the environment changes and the types of plants and animals that live there may change.*

Earth’s Systems

• 3.ESS2.1(Standard)

  Represent data in tables and graphical displays to describe typical weather conditions expected during a particular season.

• 3.ESS2.2(Standard)

  Obtain and combine information to describe climates in different regions of the world.

Earth and Human Activity

• 3.ESS3.1(Standard)

  Make a claim about the merit of a design solution that reduces the impacts of a weather-related hazard.*