Connecticut- Science: 3rd Grade

Grade Level Expectations    Adopted: 2009

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3.1: Materials have properties that can be identified and described through the use of simple tests.

3.1.1: Compare and contrast the properties of solids, liquids and gases.

Phases of Water

3.1.2: Demonstrate that solids, liquids and gases are all forms of matter that take up space and have weight.

Phases of Water

3.1.3: Carry out simple tests to determine if materials dissolve, sink or float in water; conduct heat; or attract to magnets.

Magnetism

3.1.4: Classify materials based on their observable properties, including state of matter.

Mineral Identification
 Phases of Water

3.1.6: Explain the role of heating and cooling in changing matter from one state to another during freezing, melting, evaporation and condensation.

Phases of Water

3.2: Organisms can survive and reproduce only in environments that meet their basic needs.

3.2.1: Compare and contrast the external features and behaviors that enable different animals and plants (including those that are extinct) to get food, water and sunlight; find mates; and be protected in specific land and water habitats.

Germination
 Homeostasis
 Prairie Ecosystem

3.2.2: Explain how behaviors such as hibernation, dormancy and migration give species advantages for surviving unfavorable environmental conditions.

Prairie Ecosystem

3.2.4: Evaluate whether an adaptation gives a plant or animal a survival advantage in a given environment.

Growing Plants

3.3: Earth materials have different physical and chemical properties.

3.3.2: Use the senses and simple measuring tools to gather data about various rocks and classify them based on observable properties (e.g., shape, size, color, weight, visible markings).

Color Absorption
 Measuring Trees
 Mineral Identification
 Phases of Water
 Weight and Mass

3.3.3: Conduct simple tests to determine properties of different minerals (e.g., color, odor, streak, luster, hardness, magnetism), organize data in a table, and use the data and other resources to identify unknown mineral specimens.

Magnetism
 Mineral Identification

3.4: Earth materials provide resources for all living things, but these resources are limited and should be conserved.

3.4.4: Design and conduct experiments to evaluate the effectiveness of different insulating materials for keeping a substance warm or cold (i.e., conducting heat).

Conduction and Convection

3.4.5: Use mathematics to estimate, measure and graph the quantity of a natural resource (e.g., water, paper) used by an individual (or group) in a certain time period.

Force and Fan Carts
 Graphing Skills
 Measuring Motion
 Measuring Trees

Correlation last revised: 3/31/2015

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