Science, Grade 3
Prince Edward Island · Grade 3 · Science — the complete curriculum-aligned outline, taught skill by skill by MapleMind's AI tutor.
4Units
8Lessons
55Skills
Unit 1: Life Science: Plant Growth and Changes
Germination and growing conditions for plants, the plant life cycle, and the uses of plants.
Germination and Growing Conditions
- Grouping seeds
- Questions about growing conditions
- Predicting best growing conditions
- Recording plant growth
- Graphing plant growth
- Inferring plant needs
- Parts of plants and their functions
- Explaining growth differences
The Life Cycle and Uses of Plants
- The life cycle of a plant
- Estimating plant measurements
- Why plants are important
- Useful products from plants
- Sharing ideas about plant uses
Unit 2: Earth and Space Science: Exploring Soils
Investigating soil composition and water absorption, how moving water affects soil, how living things interact with soil, and technological uses of earth materials.
Investigating Soil Composition
- Questions about soil composition
- Describing different soils
- Investigating soil components with tools
- Recording soil observations
- Answering the soil question
Soil, Water, and Living Things
- Predicting water absorption
- Graphing water absorption
- Ordering soils by absorption
- Sharing absorption results
- Moving water and soil
- Living things and soils
- Making objects from earth materials
- Finding out about soils and living things
- Sharing ideas while making objects
Unit 3: Physical Science: Invisible Forces
Magnetic forces including polarity and magnetizing materials, and electrostatic forces from static electricity.
Magnetic Forces
- Magnet poles
- Sorting magnetic materials
- Magnetizing materials
- Problems about magnetizing
- Answering magnetizing questions
- Predicting magnet strength
- Recording magnet strength
- Uses of magnets
- Building a magnetic toy
Static Electricity
- Producing static charges
- Choosing materials to test static
- Recording static observations
- New questions about static
- Static in daily life
Unit 4: Physical Science: Materials and Structures
Proposing and creating solutions to building challenges and evaluating structures.
Proposing Building Solutions
- Identifying building problems
- Properties and suitability of materials
- Joining materials
- Strong shapes in structures
- Planning which materials to use
Building and Evaluating Structures
- Using tools safely
- Following safety rules
- Estimating and selecting materials
- Building the structure
- Working with a partner
- Testing and improving strength
- Finding weak parts
- Judging a structure
- Illustrating the building process
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