3rd Grade Science

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Materials & Resources  Curriculum Descriptions

Choose the resources below that help you and your student reach your goals. You do no not have to use all of the resources below. However, these resources are suggestions.

• Lessons in Nature Study 3rd Grade by Jenkins and Kellogg
  • Guide to Lessons in Nature Study 3rd Grade 
• Nature Book for boys and girls - (This is a collection of articles about animals in zoos and in the wild. Because of the advanced vocabulary and complexity of grammar, you may like to read it aloud to your third grader rather than assigning it for independent reading.)
• Nature Studies and Life (on Menu Bar) by Clifton Hodge, Ph.D.
• Science reading report
• Science Notebook Nature Notebook 2
• How to Keep a Field Journal
• Science Book 1 (Web)  Science Book 1 (2.49 mb) PDF

Topics to be covered this year

• Animal helpers:
  
  1. bugs (see if you can guess which of these bugs are helpful)
  2. hunting: hawks, cormorants, bird dogs, coon dogs
     
  3. helping the disabled: monkeys, guide horses, seeing eye dogs, life-saving dogs 1, life-saving dogs 2, life-saving dogs 3
     
  4. FBI working dogs, military dogs, sled dogs, rescue dogs
     
  5. farm animals, guard geese, livestock guard dogs
     
  6. See what these animals can do: donkeys, elephants, gorillas, dogs
     
  7. military animals: transportation and other uses (includes mice and spiders!)
     
  8. Find out what these animals are good for: Yak, turkey, llama, cat, duck
  9. clothing: silkworms, cows, sheep
     
  10. pest control: spiders, snakes, owls, ladybugs, dragonflies, cats, mongoose
  11. space pioneers (optional: more detail)
      
  12. you can probably think of many others
      
• Dinosaurs (optional activity)
  
• Life cycle
• Plants and animals of the desert
• Plants and animals of the sea
• Common birds, trees, flowers
• Forest plants, deciduous, boreal and rain forest (or slide show)
  
• Conservation of plants and animals and the environment
  
• Weather (optional: more info, experiments and game) and climate
• Earth's changing surface
• Magnets and electricity (more optional experiments) (and more) (optional activity)
  
• Compass

Additional Topics if Time permits

• Gravity ( activity)
  
• Light (more information, activity) and color (simple, more information, activity)
  
• Energy and its sources (summary, wind activity)
  
• Force and work (this may help)
  
• Machines (basic facts) (activity)
  
• Moon and stars NASA Astronaut School
• Earth satellites
• Scientific method and scientific inquiry (diagram)

• Summaries and quizzes of entire McGraw-Hill 3rd grade science
• Helpful lessons, worksheets, graphics, etc. from Math Science Nucleus
• Virtual Geography Museum
• British healthy eating game
• British science games and quizzes
• Quia geography quiz
• Webcams of birds and other animals: BirdNest Cam, more birdcams, marine life, Smithsonian zoo cams, London aquarium webcam, tiger cam (requires registration).

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