Grade 3 rocks, soil and water
Rocks and minerals, soil, erosion and the water cycle. Here is what we have for Grade 3.
Lessons
The Water Cycle, Start to Finish
A water-drop journey game around eight stations of the room, a 100-square model of where all of Earth's water really is, from USGS data, and a sealed bag of water on a sunny window that shows the Sun driving the whole cycle. Two of the three lessons need nothing but printed sheets.
Survival Clues: Fossils, Groups and Changing Habitats
Four no-materials lessons on what helps living things survive: reading fossil cards from Antarctica to the Himalaya to work out what places were like long ago, a predator-and-prey game on why animals live in groups, a camouflage hunt on printed bark and sand, and case files on what happens when a habitat changes. Everything runs on printed sheets.
Online practice
Free tools
Water Cycle
Turn up the sun and watch water evaporate, condense into clouds and fall as rain or snow, then follow one drop of water on its journey.
Rock Cycle
Melt, cool, weather, squeeze and heat rocks to see how igneous, sedimentary and metamorphic rock turn into each other, with real examples of each.
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