3.LS.3: Plants and animals have life cycles that are part of their…
Plants and animals have life cycles that are part of their adaptations for survival in their natural environments
The Ohio's Learning Standards for Science (2018) outcome 3.LS.3 (Life Science) for Grade 3 says: “Plants and animals have life cycles that are part of their adaptations for survival in their natural environments” This Fieldbook unit teaches it hands-on, with everyday materials and a printable teacher guide and student sheet for every lesson. Official wording: Ohio's Learning Standards for Science (2018).
Who Lives Here? Grades 3–4 · partly supports this outcome
A schoolyard survey with string squares and hand lenses, sorting animals by their features, life cycles from caterpillar to butterfly, and who can live in which habitat. Students look, count and sketch but never collect or harm. Works in any climate and any country, in a garden, on pavement or in a desert.
- Does every animal grow up the same way? 45–60 min
Teams get clues about the life of one animal (a butterfly, a grasshopper, a frog or a bird), order the stages, and draw a life-cycle wheel. They compare the four wheels, find what every life cycle shares and see how a butterfly's cycle differs from a grasshopper's.
Printable practice for 3.LS.3
These pages practise a closely related idea; the match to 3.LS.3 is partial.
- Who Lives Here? workbook included with the unit
2 English-support pages, 2 practice pages, 2 readings, 1 word wall, 1 unit review, 1 unit test, with answer keys.
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Compared with NGSS: 3-LS1-1 (partial).
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