Unit: Living Systems

Subject: Science
Grade Level: Grade 3
Dates: April 15-18, 2024
Science Unit Plan - Cassels
Lesson/ Objectives Activities Assessment Resources/Materials
Focus

5) Plants & Knowledge ● Turn & Talk - Orchid Formative - Copy of Living
their ● Plants and animals use ● Discussion: Sunlight - Discussions Systems: Plants
Environment their senses to respond to ● Video - Participation and Animals
s sensory stimuli, including ● Inferring where the sun is - Group Powerpoint
○ water, food, temperature
from plants growth discussions - Plants &
and light.
● Table Talk - How Plants Environments .p
SWBAT… Survive df
- investigates and ● Workpage - 4 Things a
discusses how plants Plant Needs
and animals respond ● Trees of all Seasons
to stimuli in their Worksheet
environments in ● Happy or sad plant
order to survive. workbook
- Complete the ● Dark or light workbook
workbook
● Predictions - Plant
- Students will be able
to apply their growth in the dark vs
knowledge of plants light
and their interactions ● Video
with the ● Discussion
environments

6) Animals & ● Investigate and Intro: Slide 55 Formative: Animals And Water.pdf
Water discuss how plants - Students share at their - Plant Growth Copy of Living Systems:
and animals respond tables Predictions Plants and Animals
to stimuli in their
environments in order
- Video worksheet Powerpoint
to survive. - Finish the page from - Rain, Rain, Go
 ● Animals can use yesterday Away worksheet
senses to detect the Hook: (Slide 58)
presence of food,
Finding water
predators, or other
plants and animals. Body:
Animals and water
SWBAT … Animals and rain
- Identify how animals Worksheet
use their senses to Closure:
find water Did any animals surprise you?
- Investigate how
animals respond to
the rain

7) Animals & - Investigate and Intro: Table talk - How would you Assessment: Animals and Food.pdf
Food discuss how plantsfind food stuck in the woods? Formative: Copy of Living Systems:
and animals Hook: what senses help you find - Participation Plants and Animals
respond to stimuli in
food - Worksheets Powerpoint
their environmentsBody: - Discussion
in order to survive. - How do animals find - How Animals
- Animals can use food? (Discussion) Find Food
senses to detect - Animals and their senses Activity
the presence of - How Animals find food
food, predators, or
activity
other plants and
- Food for thought
animals.
worksheet
SWBAT… Closure:
- Identify how animals Is there another example of an
use their senses animal using their senses to find
- Identify how animals food?
use their senses to
find food
- Participate in the
“How animals find
food activity”
- Discuss how
animals use their
senses to find food
8) Animals & ● Investigate and Intro: Review of yesterday? How Assessment: Animal Posters.pdf
Temperature discuss how plants do animals use their senses to - How Animals Copy of Living Systems:
and animals find food? Find Food Plants and Animals
respond to stimuli in
Body: Activity Powerpoint
their environments - Animal Senses - Winter Winter Wonderland.pdf
in order to survive. Scavenger Hunt Wonderland
● Animals can use - Matching senses Worksheet
senses to detect worksheet
the presence of - Temperature & You
food, predators, or
discussion
other plants and
- Table Talk: Animals and
animals.
Temperature
SWBAT… - Vocabulary (Hibernate &
- Identify how animals Migration)
react to temperature - Winter Wonderland
(sense of touch) Worksheet
- Discuss how Closure:
different animals - Is there another animal
react to temperature that hibernates or
- Write the definition migrates?
of hibernation and
migration in the
organizer