Tennessee Grade 3 science standards

3.ESS2.1 Develop a model to describe ways the geosphere, biosphere, hydrosphere, and/or atmosphere interact.

Lessons: Our Living Planet (Can a jar keep itself alive?, Where does rain come from?) · The Water Cycle, Start to Finish (Where has the water in your glass been?, Can you make a mini water cycle?) (partly)

Practice: Our Living Planet workbook · The Water Cycle, Start to Finish workbook · Weather Detectives workbook

3.ESS2.2 Develop a model to describe the cycling of water through Earth's spheres driven by energy from the sun.

Lessons: The Water Cycle, Start to Finish (Where has the water in your glass been?, Can you make a mini water cycle?) (partly)

Practice: The Water Cycle, Start to Finish workbook

3.ESS2.4 Incorporate weather data to describe major climates (e.g., polar, temperate, tropical) 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.ETS1.1 Design a solution to a real-world problem that includes specified criteria and constraints.

Lessons: Build It, Launch It (Can you drop an egg without breaking it?) · Your Senses: How Does Your Body Know? (How do animals sense what we can't?) · Simple Circuits: Make It Light Up (Can you build a burglar alarm?) · Earth Day Investigations: Make Your School Better (Where would a new tree help most?) (partly) · Monsoon Science: Rain, Sun and the Nón Lá (How does a nón lá keep a rice farmer dry?)

Practice: Build It, Launch It workbook · Your Senses: How Does Your Body Know? workbook · Simple Circuits: Make It Light Up workbook · Earth Day Investigations: Make Your School Better workbook · Monsoon Science: Rain, Sun and the Nón Lá workbook

3.LS1.1 Use graphical representations to compare how species including humans and other organisms have unique and diverse life cycles.

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

Practice: Who Lives Here? workbook

3.LS1.2 Analyze the internal and external structures that aquatic and land organisms have to support survival, growth, behavior, and reproduction.

Lessons: Flowers, Fruit and Seeds: How Plants Make More Plants (What is a flower really for?, Is a tomato a fruit?, How can a seed travel without legs?) (partly) · How Your Body Works (Why does your heart beat faster when you run?, What happens to your lunch?, How does your arm bend?) · Keep It Cool: Ice, Insulation and Staying Comfortable (How do animals stay warm in the sea and cool in the desert?) · Your Senses: How Does Your Body Know? (How do animals sense what we can't?) · Winter Science: Ice, Snow and Staying Warm (How do animals stay warm in winter?)

Practice: Flowers, Fruit and Seeds: How Plants Make More Plants workbook · How Your Body Works workbook · Keep It Cool: Ice, Insulation and Staying Comfortable workbook · Your Senses: How Does Your Body Know? workbook · Winter Science: Ice, Snow and Staying Warm workbook · Groundhog Day Shadow Science

3.PS1.1 Develop a model of solids, liquids, and gasses to describe that each state of matter is made of particles too small to be seen.

Lessons: Earth and Sky at Home (How do crystals grow?, How does a cloud form?) (partly) · Kitchen Chemistry for Families (Why do the blobs in a lava lamp go up and down?, What makes a volcano erupt?) (partly) · Winter Science at Home (Can you make frost in a can?) (partly) · 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: Earth and Sky at Home workbook · Kitchen Chemistry for Families workbook · Winter Science at Home workbook · Living with Water: Salt, Rice and the Mekong workbook · Solids, Liquids and Gases workbook

3.PS2.1 Explain cause and effect relationships of forces that cannot be seen including interactions between two objects not in contact with each other (i.e., static electricity, magnetism and gravity).

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.PS3.1 Make observations of sound, light, heat, and motion to collect evidence that energy is present in a system.

Lessons: Keep It Cool: Ice, Insulation and Staying Comfortable (Which wrap keeps a drink coldest?, How do animals stay warm in the sea and cool in the desert?, Can you build a cool box that beats the heat?) · Simple Circuits: Make It Light Up (Can you light a bulb with one wire?, What lets electricity through?, Why do some string lights all go out at once?) · Winter Science: Ice, Snow and Staying Warm (Which mitten keeps a hand warmest?, How do animals stay warm in winter?, Can snow keep things warm?)

Practice: Keep It Cool: Ice, Insulation and Staying Comfortable workbook · Simple Circuits: Make It Light Up workbook · Winter Science: Ice, Snow and Staying Warm workbook · Steppe Science: Staying Warm on the Kazakh Steppe workbook