Science, Grade 3
Manitoba · Grade 3 · Science — the complete curriculum-aligned outline, taught skill by skill by MapleMind's AI tutor.
Unit 1: Scientific Skills and Inquiry
The hands-on doing of science in Grade 3 - using tools to measure in standard units, measuring time, displaying data in more than one way, and building something to solve a problem.
- Using science tools
- Measuring mass, length, volume, and temperature
- Measuring time in standard units
- Showing data more than one way
- Building to solve a problem
Unit 2: Growth and Changes in Plants
How plants grow and what they need, plant parts and their jobs, adaptations, life cycles, and how people and plants depend on each other.
- Words for plant growth
- Comparing different plants
- Respecting plants as living things
- Conditions for healthy growth
- Plants make their own food
- Building a place for plants to grow
- Plant parts and their jobs
- Adaptations that help plants survive
- Plant adaptations that can harm us
- Caring for a plant through its life cycle
- What stays the same and changes in a plant's life
- Needs of plants and animals
- How plants and animals help each other
- Why plants matter to the environment
- Hobbies and jobs with plants
- Plants for food and medicine
- Useful products from plants
- Replanting what we use
Unit 3: Materials and Structures
How materials and shapes give structures strength and stability, joining materials, forces on structures, and designing and evaluating structures.
- Words for materials and structures
- Testing material strength
- Making a material stronger
- Joining materials for a job
- Balance keeps structures steady
- Making frames strong and stable
- Strong shapes in structures
- Choosing materials to build
- Building a structure to meet criteria
- Forces on structures
- Are structures safe?
- Jobs in building and engineering
- Building materials around the world
Unit 4: Forces That Attract or Repel
Forces as pushes and pulls, gravity, magnets and magnetism, Earth as a magnet, static electricity, and forces that act without touching.
- Words for forces and magnetism
- Forces are pushes and pulls
- Gravity pulls toward Earth
- What magnets attract
- Making something magnetic
- Poles and magnetic fields
- How magnet poles interact
- Earth is like a giant magnet
- How a compass works
- When magnets cause harm
- Making static electricity
- How charged materials interact
- Avoiding static electricity problems
- Forces at different distances
- Materials between forces
- Forces that move things without touching
- Contact and non-contact motion
- Devices that use these forces
- Building a device that uses a force
Unit 5: Soils in the Environment
What soil is made of, separating and comparing soils, how soil affects plant growth, soil animals, and returning organic matter to the soil.
- Words for soils
- Components in a soil sample
- Separating soil components
- Comparing soils from different places
- How much water soils hold
- How water changes soil
- How soil affects plant growth
- Why knowing soil matters
- Animals that help the soil
- Returning organic matter to soil
- Building a composter
- Making objects from earth materials
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