Nebraska Grade 3 science standards

SC.3.1.1.a 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

SC.3.1.1.b 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

SC.3.1.1.c Ask questions to determine cause and effect relationships of electrical 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

SC.3.1.1.d Define a simple design 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

SC.3.7.2.a 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

SC.3.7.2.b Analyze and interpret data from fossils to provide evidence of the organisms and environments in which they lived long ago.

Lessons: Survival Clues: Fossils, Groups and Changing Habitats (What can fossils tell us about long ago?)

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

SC.3.7.2.c 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

SC.3.7.2.d 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.

Lessons: Survival Clues: Fossils, Groups and Changing Habitats (What happens when a habitat changes?)

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

SC.3.9.3.a Develop models to describe that organisms have unique and diverse life cycles but all have in common birth, growth, reproduction, and death.

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

Practice: Who Lives Here? workbook

SC.3.9.3.b 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

SC.3.9.3.c 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

SC.3.9.3.d Use evidence to construct an explanation for how the variations in characteristics among individuals of the same species may provide advantages in surviving, finding mates, and reproducing.

Lessons: Survival Clues: Fossils, Groups and Changing Habitats (Why do some animals in a family survive better?)

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

SC.3.7.2.e Generate and compare multiple possible solutions to a problem based on how well each is likely to meet the criteria and constraints of the problem.

Lessons: Simple Circuits: Make It Light Up (Can you build a burglar alarm?) · Living with Water: Salt, Rice and the Mekong (How do salt farmers turn the sea into salt?, How do rice terraces stop a mountain washing away?, How can a house stay dry when the Mekong floods?)

Practice: Simple Circuits: Make It Light Up workbook · Living with Water: Salt, Rice and the Mekong workbook

SC.3.12.4.b 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