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Third Grade Science Pacing Guide
week Unit Topic Weekly Learning Target Next Generation Science Standards Covered Interactive Science Location Suggested Lesson Plans Suggested Resources
Week 1 Third Grade Science Introduction Classroom Rules and Expectations Students can follow the rules and understand procedures and expectations in science class. Students can ask questions and use skills like a scientist.

SP1  SP3

Skills 1.1 & 1.2 Lesson Plans Resources
Week 2 Being a Scientist Talking Like A Scientist Students can answer questions and communicate like a scientist.

SP2   SP7
SP8  

Skills 1.3 & 1.4 Lesson Plans Resources
Week 3 Acting Like a Scientist Students can properly identify and use scientific tools.

SP1  SP3  SP4

Skills 1.5 Lesson Plans Resources
Week 4 Weather and Climate Describing Weather Students can describe weather and record and display information regarding weather.

3.ESS2.1

Unit 6.1 & 6.2 Lesson Plans Resources
Week 5 Collecting Weather Data Students can collect and compare data concerning weather.

3.ESS2.1   3.ESS2.2

Unit 6.3 & TE289a Lesson Plans Resources
Week 6 Different Climates Students can describe different climates in different regions of the world

3.ESS2.2

Unit 6.2 & TE289b Lesson Plans Resources
Week 7 Local Weather Hazard Students can classify different kinds of materials by their observable properties.

3.ESS3.1 
3-5ETS1.2 K.2.ETS1.3

Unit 6.4 & TE289c Lesson Plans Resources
Week 8 Weather and Climate Review Students can reflect on the unit’s learning and review any skills or content.

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Week 9 Forces and Motion Defining Motion Students can explain how a force affects motion including gravity.

3.PS2.1 3.PS2.2

Unit 1.2 & Unit1.3 TE 99b Lesson Plans Resources
Week 10 Gravity Students can explain how a force affects motion including gravity.

3.PS2.1 3.PS2.2

TE 99a Lesson Plans Resources
Week 11 Investigating Motion Students can carry out investigations to determine the effects of forces on an object.

3.PS2.1 3.PS2.2 
3-5ETS1.3

TE 99a Lesson Plans Resources
Week 12 Forces and Motion Review Students can reflect on the unit’s learning and review any skills or content.

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Week 13 Energy and Its Forms Energy Introduction Students can identify some forms of energy and state how energy can change form.

4.PS3.2

Unit 2.1 & 2.2 Lesson Plans Resources
Week 14 Light, Heat, and Sound Students can identify light, heat, and sound energy.

4.PS3.2

Unit 2.3, 2.4, 2.5 Lesson Plans Resources
Week 15 Electrical Energy Students can identify and explain electrical energy.

3.PS2.3

Unit 2.6 TE 99c Lesson Plans Resources
Week 16 Magnets Students can explain how magnets work.

3.PS2.3 3.PS2.4

Unit 1.2 TE 99c Lesson Plans Resources
Week 17 Solve a Problem with Magnets Students can use their knowledge of magnets to solve a simple design problem.

3.PS2.4 
3-5ETS1.1

TE 99d Lesson Plans Resources
Week 18 Energy and Its Forms Review Students can reflect on the unit’s learning and review any skills or content.

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Week 19 Plants Classifying Plants Students can develop and use a model to explain a plant’s life cycle.

3.LS1.1

Unit 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 3.5 Lesson Plans Resources
Week 20 A Plant’s Life Cycle Students can develop and use a model to explain a plant’s life cycle.

3.LS1.1

Unit 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 3.5 Lesson Plans Resources
Week 21 A Plant’s Life Cycle Students can reflect on the unit’s learning and review any skills or content.

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Week 22 Plants Review Students can describe ways to classify animals.

3.LS3.1 3.LS4.2

Unit 4.1 Lesson Plans Resources
Week 23 Animals Classifying Animals Students can use observations and evidence to explain that some traits are inherited and some traits are learned.

3.LS3.1 3.LS4.2

Unit 4.2 Lesson Plans Resources
Week 24 Animal Traits Students can develop and use a model to explain an animal’s life cycle.

3.LS1.1 3.LS2.1

Unit 4.3 TE 245g Lesson Plans Resources
Week 25 An Animal’s Life Cycle Students can reflect on the unit’s learning and review any skills or content.

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Week 26 Animals Review Students can analyze how living and nonliving things interact within a variety of ecosystems.

3.LS3.2

Unit 5.1 Lesson Plans Resources
Week 27 Organisms and the Environment Living and Nonliving Students can use models to describe how energy flows through ecosystems.

3.LS4.3

Unit 5.2 Lesson Plans Resources
Week 28 Energy Through an Ecosystem Students can explain why some traits are better suited for certain environments.

3.LS3.2 3.LS4.3

Unit 5.1 & Unit 5.2 Lesson Plans Resources
Week 29 Traits and Ecosystems Students can reflect on the unit’s learning and review any skills or content.

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Week 30 Organisms and the Environment Review Students can use evidence to construct an argument that claims when changes to an ecosystem are helpful or harmful to the living things in the ecosystem.

3.LS4.4

Unit 5.3 Lesson Plans Resources
Week 31 Understand Change in Environments Ecosystem Changes Students can analyze and interpret data from fossils and communicate how fossils are used to learn about the past.

3.LS4.1

Unit 5.4 Lesson Plans Resources
Week 32 Fossils Students can explain how changes to an ecosystem can cause additional environmental problems.

3.LS4.4

Unit 5.3 & 5.4 TE245e Lesson Plans Resources
Week 33 Environmental Problems Students can reflect on the unit’s learning and review any skills or content.

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Week 34 Understand Change in Environments Review Students can use engineering practices to create a design and model.

SP1 SP2 SP3

Skills 2.1 & 2.2 Lesson Plans Resources
Week 35 Engineering and Design Engineering and Design Students can use engineering practices to create a design and model.

SP 6 SP8

Skills 2.3 Lesson Plans Resources
Week 36 Engineering and Design Students can review key concepts and content from Grade 3 science.

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Week 37 Third Grade Science Review Review Students can review key concepts and content from Grade 3 science.

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Week 38 Review Students can review key concepts and content from Grade 3 science.

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