| 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 |
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 |
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. | Review |
Review | Lesson Plans | Resources | |
| 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 |
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. | Review |
Review | Lesson Plans | Resources | |
| 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 |
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. | Review |
Review | Lesson Plans | Resources | |
| 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. | Review |
Review | Lesson Plans | Resources | |
| 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. | Review |
Review | Lesson Plans | Resources | |
| 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. | Review |
Review | Lesson Plans | Resources | |
| 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. | Review |
Review | Lesson Plans | Resources | |
| 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. | Review |
Review | Lesson Plans | Resources | |
| Week 37 | Third Grade Science Review | Review | Students can review key concepts and content from Grade 3 science. | Review |
Review | Lesson Plans | Resources |
| Week 38 | Review | Students can review key concepts and content from Grade 3 science. | Review |
Review | Lesson Plans | Resources |