Science and Technology, Grade 3
Ontario · Grade 3 · Science — the complete curriculum-aligned outline, taught skill by skill by MapleMind's AI tutor.
Unit 1: STEM Skills and Connections
Testing and fixing code until it works, thinking about how coding and new technology change everyday life, spotting science and technology in the jobs and tools around us, and learning about people from many communities who help science grow.
- Testing, debugging, and refining code
- Noticing how coding and new technology affect everyday life
- Finding science and technology at home and in the community
- Learning about contributions from many communities
Unit 2: Growth and Changes in Plants
What plants need, their parts, life cycles, how they react to their environment, photosynthesis, how people use plants, and how plants and animals depend on each other — plus protecting plants.
- Why plants are important
- Protecting native plants
- How people affect plants and their habitats
- The good and hard parts of local food
- What plants need to grow
- The parts of a plant
- Plant life cycles
- How plants react to their environment
- How plants make their own food
- How people around the world use plants
- Plants grown for food
- How plants and animals depend on each other
Unit 3: Forces Causing Movement
Contact and non-contact forces, ways forces are exerted, how forces change an object's motion or shape, and forces in daily life — plus forces from nature and staying safe.
- Forces from nature
- Harmful forces and safety devices
- Contact and non-contact forces
- Different ways a force is exerted
- How forces change motion and shape
- Forces in daily life
Unit 4: Strong and Stable Structures
What a structure is, form and function, strength and stability, materials for building, how forces affect structures, and struts and ties — plus how strong structures affect us and the environment.
- Effects of strong and stable structures
- Structures built by animals
- What a structure is
- Form and function of structures
- The strength of structures
- The stability of structures
- Choosing materials for structures
- How forces affect structures
- Struts and ties
Unit 5: Soils in the Environment
What soil is made of, what's added to it, Ontario's soil types and food, erosion, keeping soil healthy, and composting — plus why soil matters and how humans affect it.
- The importance of soils
- How people affect soils
- Improving and protecting soil
- What soil is made of
- What gets added to soil
- Ontario soils and the food they grow
- Erosion
- Keeping Ontario's soil healthy
- Composting
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