Third Grade Science
Course Overview
Students learn to observe and analyze through hands-on experiments, and gain further insight into how scientists understand our world. They observe and chart the phases of the moon, determine the properties of insulators and conductors, and make a three-dimensional model of a bone. Students will explore topics such as:
- Weather—air pressure; precipitation; clouds; humidity; fronts; forecasting
- Vertebrates—features of fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds, and mammals
- Ecosystems—climate zones; tundra, forests, desert, grasslands, freshwater, and marine ecosystems
- Matter—phase changes; volume; mass; atoms; physical and chemical changes
- Human Body—the musculoskeletal system; the skin
- Energy—forms of energy; transfer of energy; conductors and insulators; renewable and nonrenewable energy resources
- Light—light as energy; the spectrum; how the eye works
- Astronomy—phases of the moon; eclipses; the solar system; stars and constellations; the Milky Way
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- Materials List
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