Pennsylvania Grade 3 science standards
The Grade 3 science outcomes we teach, in the standards's own words, with the lessons and practice pages for each. Pick an outcome code for the full list of lessons and printables.
Pennsylvania Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy & Sustainability (STEELS) Standards. Every lesson comes with a printable teacher guide and student sheet.
Biological Sciences
3.1.3.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
3.1.3.E Analyze and interpret data from fossils to provide evidence of the organisms and the environments in which they lived long ago.
Lessons: Restless Earth: Fossils, Soils, Volcanoes and Plates (How do fossils form, and what can they tell us?) (partly)
Practice: Restless Earth: Fossils, Soils, Volcanoes and Plates workbook
3.1.3.G 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
Physical Sciences
3.2.3.C Ask questions to determine cause and effect relationships of electric 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
3.2.3.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
Earth and Space Sciences
3.3.3.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
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