3.LS4.3: Construct an argument with evidence how some organisms thrive, some…
Construct an argument with evidence how some organisms thrive, some struggle to survive, and some cannot survive in a particular habitat.
The South Dakota Science Standards (2024) outcome 3.LS4.3 (Life Sciences) for Grade 3 says: “Construct an argument with evidence how some organisms thrive, some struggle to survive, and some cannot survive in a particular habitat.” This Fieldbook unit teaches it hands-on, with everyday materials and a printable teacher guide and student sheet for every lesson. Official wording: South Dakota Science Standards (2024).
Who Lives Here? Grades 3–4
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.
- Who can live here, and who can't? 45–60 min
Teams compare what lives under a board with what lives on the bare ground beside it, and feel which is damper. Then they judge six animals against the schoolyard's food, water and shelter, and argue with evidence which can live here well, which less well and which not at all.
Printable practice for 3.LS4.3
These pages practise a closely related idea; the match to 3.LS4.3 is partial.
- Who Lives Here? workbook included with the unit
1 word wall, 1 English-support page, 1 practice page, 1 reading, 1 unit review, 1 unit test, with answer keys.
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Compared with NGSS: 3-LS4-3 (partial).
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