Science Teaching Resources for 3rd Grade
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Layers of the Earth
An educational poster showing the structure of the Earth.
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Develop a Habitat - Garden Project
A project-based assessment task for students to demonstrate their understanding of how habitats can be preserved and protected in and around where people live.
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Science Experiment Recording Sheet
A recording sheet to use when completing a Science experiment.
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Natural Environments - PowerPoint
A Natural Environments-themed PowerPoint to add some color and design to your classroom PowerPoint presentations.
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Wetland Word Wall Vocabulary
A set of wetland-related vocabulary word wall cards.
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Push and Pull Sorting Worksheet
Use this push and pull sorting worksheet when exploring forces and motion with your 3rd grade students.
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Basic Food Chain Worksheet
A basic food chain worksheet for your students to complete.
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Science Equipment Poster Pack for the Classroom With Labels
A poster resource pack containing diagrams with labels of various pieces of scientific apparatus.
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Heat Energy Teaching Resource Pack
A comprehensive set of posters, activities and worksheets related to the concept of heat energy.
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Water is Life Teaching Resource Pack
A collection of Water is Life teaching resources including posters, worksheets and activities for teaching about how we use water and where it comes from.
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Sun, Earth, and Moon Teaching Resource Pack
A collection of teaching resources including posters, worksheets, and experiments to use when teaching your class about the interplay of the sun, Earth, and moon.
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Free Science Booster Pack
A free sample pack that includes six Science resources.
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The Importance of Environments Unit Plan
This Science unit addresses the importance of ecosystems to plants and animals and the ways in which they can be protected.
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Facts of the Matter
This Properties of Matter unit explores the concept that solids, liquids, and gases have different observable properties and behave in different ways.
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Natural Disasters Unit Plan
This Science unit addresses the concepts of plate tectonics and natural disasters.
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Vital Vegetation
A 60 minute lesson in which students will investigate the different ways that vegetation can be beneficial.
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Understanding States of Matter
An assessment task designed to assess students' knowledge and understanding of: solids, liquids, and gases; their properties; and their behavior.
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Slime - Solid, Liquid, or Gas?
A 60-minute lesson in which students will recognize that not all substances can be easily classified on the basis of their observable properties.
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Knowing Matters!
A 60-minute lesson in which students will explore how knowledge of states of matter and their changes can help inform practices and decision making.
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Going, Going, Gone!
A 60-minute lesson in which students will recognize that substances exist in different states depending on the temperature.
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Changing States of Matter
A 60-minute lesson in which students will explore the way solids, liquids, and gases change in different situations.
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Gases
A 60-minute lesson in which students will observe that gases have mass and take up space.
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Liquids
A 60-minute lesson in which students will identify the observable characteristics of liquids and how they behave in different ways.
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Solids
A 60-minute lesson in which students will identify the observable characteristics of solids and how they behave in different ways.
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Matter Matters!
Introduce students to key terms and concepts related to matter and states of matter with this 60 minute lesson.
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What's the Matter?
A 60-minute lesson designed to activate students' prior knowledge of solids, liquids, and gases.
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The Scale of the Solar System
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Occupations and Sustainability in Technologies Assessment
An assessment task in which students will demonstrate an understanding of occupations and sustainability in technologies.
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Sustainability in Occupations
A 60 minute lesson in which students will investiagate why occupations within the community need to be sustainable.
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Sustainability in the Community
A 60 minute lesson in which students will develop an understanding of key vocabulary commonly used in relation to sustainability.
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Earth - Third Rock From Sun
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The Sun - Solar System Central