Idaho Grade 3 science standards

3-ESS-1.2 Obtain and combine information to describe climates in different regions of the world.

Lessons: Monsoon Science: Rain, Sun and the Nón Lá (How does a nón lá keep a rice farmer dry?)

Practice: Monsoon Science: Rain, Sun and the Nón Lá workbook · Weather Detectives workbook

3-LS-1.1 Develop models to demonstrate that living things, although they have unique and diverse life cycles, all have birth, growth, reproduction, and death in common.

Lessons: Who Lives Here? (Does every animal grow up the same way?)

Practice: Who Lives Here? workbook

3-LS-2.1 Construct an argument that some animals form groups that help members survive.

Lessons: Survival Clues: Fossils, Groups and Changing Habitats (Why do some animals live in groups?)

Practice: Survival Clues: Fossils, Groups and Changing Habitats workbook

3-LS-3.1 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.

Lessons: Like Parent, Like Baby? Traits and Families (Why don't puppies from the same parents look the same?)

Practice: Like Parent, Like Baby? Traits and Families workbook

3-LS-3.2 Use evidence to support the explanation that traits can be influenced by the environment.

Lessons: Like Parent, Like Baby? Traits and Families (Can where you live change how you look?)

Practice: Like Parent, Like Baby? Traits and Families workbook

3-LS-3.3 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.

Lessons: Who Lives Here? (Who can live here, and who can't?)

Practice: Who Lives Here? workbook

3-PS-1.1 Plan and conduct an investigation to provide evidence of the effects of balanced and unbalanced forces on the motion of an object.

Lessons: Build It, Launch It (How does a rocket push itself into space?) (partly) · Pushes, Pulls and Magnets (Why does a ball stop rolling?) (partly) · Forces at Work: Gravity, Resistance, Levers and Pulleys (Do heavy things really fall faster?, How can a small push lift a big load?) (partly)

Practice: Build It, Launch It workbook · Pushes, Pulls and Magnets workbook · Forces at Work: Gravity, Resistance, Levers and Pulleys workbook

3-PS-1.2 Make observations and/or measurements of an object’s motion to provide evidence that a pattern can be used to predict future motion.

Lessons: Pushes, Pulls and Magnets (How far will a paper clip jump?) (partly)

Practice: Pushes, Pulls and Magnets workbook

3-PS-1.3 Ask questions to determine cause and effect relationships of static electricity or magnetic interactions between two objects not in contact with each other.

Lessons: Pushes, Pulls and Magnets (Can a magnet work through a table?, How far will a paper clip jump?)

Practice: Pushes, Pulls and Magnets workbook

3-PS-1.4 Define a problem that can be solved by applying scientific ideas about magnets.

Lessons: Pushes, Pulls and Magnets (How far will a paper clip jump?)

Practice: Pushes, Pulls and Magnets workbook