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DC.3.1.Scientific Thinking and Inquiry: Broad Concept: Scientific progress is made by asking relevant questions and conducting careful investigations. As a basis for understanding this concept, and to address the content in this grade, students should develop their own questions and perform investigations. Students:
Scientific Thinking and Inquiry: Broad Concept: Scientific progress is made by asking relevant questions and conducting careful investigations. As a basis for understanding this concept, and to address the content in this grade, students should develop their own questions and perform investigations. Students:
3.1.11. Explain that one way to make sense of something is to think of how it compares to something more familiar (e.g., vibrations of an object in air such as a tuning fork, a plucked string of a string instrument, human vocal cords).Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Animals
3.1.2. Participate in different types of guided scientific investigations (related to content in this grade), such as observing objects and events and collecting specimens for analysis, including longer-term investigations that take place over several days, weeks, or months.
3.1.3. Keep and report records of investigations and observations using tools, such as journals, charts, graphs, and computers.
3.1.4. Discuss the results of investigations and consider the explanations of others.
3.1.6. Measure and mix dry and liquid materials in prescribed amounts, following reasonable safety precautions.
3.1.8. Appropriately use simple tools - such as clamps, rulers, scissors, hand lenses, and other technology (e.g., calculators and computers) - to help solve problems.
3.1.9. Make sketches and write descriptions to aid in explaining procedures or ideas.
DC.3.2.Science and Technology: Broad Concept: Although each of these human enterprises of science and technology has a character and history of its own, each is dependent on and reinforces the other. As a basis for understanding this concept, students:
Science and Technology: Broad Concept: Although each of these human enterprises of science and technology has a character and history of its own, each is dependent on and reinforces the other. As a basis for understanding this concept, students:
3.2.1. Define technology as the application of human ingenuity and skill to the solution of practical problems (e.g., typewriter, computer).
3.2.2. Identify and demonstrate how an invention can be used in different ways, such as a radio that can be used to get information and for entertainment.
DC.3.3.Earth Science: Broad Concept: Objects in the sky move in regular and predictable patterns. As a basis for understanding this concept, students:
Earth Science: Broad Concept: Objects in the sky move in regular and predictable patterns. As a basis for understanding this concept, students:
3.3.1. Observe and describe the apparent motion of the sun and moon over a time span of one day.
3.3.2. Using a globe, demonstrate how the Earth rotates on its axis every 24 hours, producing the night-and-day cycle.
3.3.3. Observe and describe there are more stars in the sky than anyone can easily count, but they are not spaced or spread evenly.
3.3.4. Observe and describe that the sun can be seen only in the daytime; the moon can be seen sometimes at night and sometimes during the day.
3.3.5. Observe and describe the changes that occur in the observable shape of the moon over the course of a month (i.e., the moon looks a little different every day, but looks the same again about every four weeks).
DC.3.4.Physical Science: Broad Concept: Energy takes many forms and has many sources. As a basis for understanding these concepts, students:
Physical Science: Broad Concept: Energy takes many forms and has many sources. As a basis for understanding these concepts, students:
3.4.1. Recognize that energy is needed to carry out almost any kind of change.Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Energy Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Energy needs
3.4.2. Describe basic forms of energy, including mechanical (kinetic and potential), light, sound, heat, chemical, nuclear, and electrical.Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Energy Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Energy needs
3.4.3. Recognize that energy can be transformed from one form to another.
3.4.6. Demonstrate that things that make sound do so by vibrating objects, such as vocal cords and musical instruments. Describe that the sound travels as a vibration through the air.Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Sound
DC.3.5.Life Science: Broad Concept: Plants and animals can be classified according to the physical characteristics that they share. As a basis for understanding this concept, students:
Life Science: Broad Concept: Plants and animals can be classified according to the physical characteristics that they share. As a basis for understanding this concept, students:
3.5.1. Demonstrate that a great variety of living things can be sorted into groups in many ways using various properties, such as how they look, where they live, and how they act, to decide which things belong to which group.
3.5.2. Explain that characteristics used for classification depend on the purpose of the grouping.
DC.3.6.Life Science: Broad Concept: Plants and animals have predictable life cycles. As a basis for understanding this concept, students:
Life Science: Broad Concept: Plants and animals have predictable life cycles. As a basis for understanding this concept, students:
3.6.1. Recognize that plants and animals go through predictable life cycles that include birth, growth, development, reproduction, and death.Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Plants
3.6.2. Describe the life cycle of some living things, such as the frog and butterfly, including how they go through striking changes of body shape and function as they go through metamorphosis.
3.6.3. Compare and contrast the life cycles vary for different living things.Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Plants
DC.3.7.Life Science: Broad Concept: Humans have a variety of mechanisms to stay healthy. As a basis for understanding this concept, students:
Life Science: Broad Concept: Humans have a variety of mechanisms to stay healthy. As a basis for understanding this concept, students:
3.7.1. Explain that people need water, food, air, waste removal, and a particular range of temperatures, just as other animals do, although different animals can tolerate very different ranges of temperature and other features of their surroundings.Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Animals
3.7.4. Recognize that food provides energy and materials for growth, maintenance, and repair of body parts.
