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Gr3 Science Syllabus - Odt
Gr3 Science Syllabus - Odt
SCIENCE
Course Description
In In Science, emphasis is placed on the inquiry process, developing
investigative skills and understanding the nature of science. Grade 3 students
continue to learn about the life processes of plants and animals and their
interactions within Earth’s ecosystems. They explore the states and properties
of matter. animal behavioral and physical adaptations and response to the
environment; relationships among organisms in aquatic and terrestrial food
chains; soil, its origins and importance to living things; patterns and cycles in
nature; plant and animal life cycles; the water cycle and the importance of water
to living things; how natural events and human actions can affect species, and
the importance of sources of energy. The pupils continue to develop an
understanding of simple machines and their uses. They study the Earth’s
movements and its effects on daily life.
This school year, Grade 3 students are also introduced to the body systems and
learn the importance of nutrition, exercise, and avoiding harmful substances.
Assessment
Primary Textbook
Technology Resources
To measure objects accurately and explain the impact of it to the investigations being
conducted.
To identify which tools should be used to make specific measurements.
To gather and communicate data.
To present and explain conclusions upon evidence that has been gathered.
To identify problems and the inventions that solved them.
To evaluate and test how well the design meets the goal.
To build a model of an animal’s life cycle.
To describe the changes taking place in the development of a plant or an animal.
To explain that reproduction results in diversity in a species: while offspring often look
much like their parents, they do not look exactly the same.
To describe and explain how different adaptations help plants and animals survive in
their environment.
To explain the interrelationships of body systems.
List ways to keep the body systems healthy.
Describe the physical and mental changes occur during the stages of growth.
Compare and contrast the Life Cycle of Man with other animals.
1. Develop models to describe that organisms have unique and diverse life cycles
but all have in common: birth, growth, reproduction, and death.
2. 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. Use evidence to support the explanation that traits can be influenced by the
environment.
4. 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.
5. Make observations and /or measurements to provide evidence of the effects of
weathering or the rate of erosion.
1 Unit 3 Plants and Lesson 1 What Are Inquiry Flip chart p.13A
Animals Some Plant Life Model a Life Cycle
Cycles?
2 Unit 3 Plants and Lesson 2 What Are Why It Matters p. 108
Animals Some Animal Life Diversity
Cycles?
Unit 3 Plants and Lesson 3 How Do Inquiry Flip chart p.14 How
Animals Living Things Change? Do Living Things Change?
3 Unit 3 Plants and Lesson 4 What Are
Animals Structural
Adaptations?
Lesson 5 How Can We Inquiry Flip chart p.17A
Model A Physical Instinct or Learned
Adaptation? Behaviour
4 Unit 3 Plants and Lesson 6 - What Are STEM Solve It. Helping
Animals Some Animal Animals to Migrate
Behaviors?
Enrichment
Activities and
Assessment
5 Unit 4 Lesson 1 What Are
Inquiry Flip chart p.19B Dig
Ecosystems and Ecosystems?
Into Ecosystems
Interactions
Lesson 2 What’s in an
Ecosystem?
6 Unit 4 Lesson 3 What Is a Food
Ecosystems and Chain?
Interactions
Lesson 4 What Are Some
Food Chains?
7 Unit 4 Lesson 5 How Do
Environmental Changes Inquiry Flip chart p.23A- Too
Ecosystems and
Affect Living Things? Much Water
Interactions
Inquiry Flip chart p.23B- Not
Enough Water
Why It Matter ? How Can We
Help?
8 Unit 4 Lesson 1 What Are Some Inquiry Flip chart p.26A Water
Ecosystems and Landforms? . At Work
Interactions
Lesson 2 How Does Inquiry Flip chart p.26B Find
Earth’s Surface Change Some Erosion
Slowly?
Lesson 3 How Can We Inquiry Flip chart p.28 How Can
Model Erosion? We Model Erosion?
9 Lesson 4 How Does
Earth’s Surface Change
Quickly?
Review Week
10 Quarter Exams
Standards to be covered in the 3rd Quarter
Grade 3 Standards
3-LS4-4. 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.*
3-ESS2-1. Represent data in tables and graphical displays to describe typical
weather conditions expected during a particular season
3-ESS2-2. Obtain and combine information to describe climates in different
regions of the world.
3-ESS3-1. Make a claim about the merit of a design solution that reduces the
impacts of a weather-related hazard.*
Grade 5
5-ESS1-2. Represent data in graphical displays to reveal patterns of daily changes
in length and direction of shadows, day and night, and the seasonal appearance
of some stars in the night sky.
Engineering
3-5-ETS1-1. Define a simple design problem reflecting a need or a want that
includes specified criteria for success and constraints on materials, time, or cost.
explain how living things use Earth’s resources to meet their needs.
Define and explain the term natural resources.
Identify resources that are used as sources of energy, including sunlight, water, wind,
coal, oil, natural gas, and wood.
Define and identify renewable resources, reusable resources, and non-renewable
resources.
Identify air, land, and water pollution.
Explain ways to protect resources including reusing, recycling, and reducing.
Explain how soil is formed by weathering of rock and decomposing plant and animal
remains.
Describe and compare various types of soil: sand, silt, clay.
Explain why soil is important for plant growth.
Describe and compare sources of water on earth.
Explain why water is essential for living things and why it should be conserved.
Communicate ways how to specifically, reuse, reduce and recycle in order to help
create a healthful environment or community.
Define and explain the process of water cycle.
Explain that the sun is the source of energy that drives the water cycle.
Define and explain the term weather.
Explain that the atmosphere is made up of the air that surrounds Earth.
Describe various types of severe weather.
Describe and communicate ways how to be safe in harsh weathers or disasters.
Describe how to measure specific weather conditions: wind direction, air
temperature, amount of precipitation, and type of precipitation.
Explain how earth’s rotation is responsible for the day and night cycle.
Describe how Earth’s revolution is responsible for the seasons.
Describe the various phases of the moon.
Explain how the motion of Earth and the moon cause observable cycles in nature.
Describe of Earth and the moon.