This bundle includes all 4 units for third grade!

You will find:

Resources for Input

• • Inquiry Charts
  • Observation Charts
  • Big Book (PPT and printable)
  • Pictorial and Comparative Input Chart templates (16 total)
    • Sociality
    • Continental Drift
    • Geologic Time Scale
    • Natural Selection
    • Adaptations
    • Ecosystem Dynamics
    • Forces on a Rocket
    • Balanced vs Unbalanced Forces
    • Permanent Magnet vs Electromagnet
    • Static Electricity
    • Climates Around the World
    • What Affects Climate?
    • Weather vs Climate
    • Hurricanes vs Tornadoes
    • Life Cycles (comparative)
    • Parity (comparative)
    • Acquired Traits
    • Inherited Traits
  • Chants (10 total)
  • Sentence Pattern Charts (printable student copies, teacher samples)
  • Expert Group Texts:
    • Adaptations and Sociality (set of 6)
    • Invasive Species (set of 6)
    • Climate Types (set of 5)
    • Natural Hazards (set of 6)
    • Life Cycles (set of 6)
    • Observable Traits (set of 6)
    • Types of Forces (set of 5)
    • Forces and Variables (set of 5)
  • Mind Maps to go with Expert Group texts
  • Process Grids to go with Expert Group texts
  • Writing Prompts for Narrative, Informational, and Opinion text types (12 total)

Close Reading Sets

13 passages total , each including:

• • Essential Question
  • Informational Texts at 3 levels: beginning, middle, and end of THIRD GRADE, available as either an article or a reader
  • 3 CCSS/DOK Aligned Question Sets
  • Journal Prompts (for EQ or DOK 4)
  • Titles:
    • Mobs, Colonies, and Herds!
    • The Fossil Record
    • Archaeology/Paleontology (paired text)
    • Charles Darwin and Natural Selection
    • Meteorology
    • Tri-State Tornado/Galveston Hurricane (paired text)
    • Seasons and the Earth
    • Genetics According to Gregor Mendel
    • Insects/Mammals (paired text)
    • Instinctive Plant Behaviors
    • Newton's Laws of Motion
    • Forces on a Rocket
    • Forces at the Amusement Park (Roller Coasters/Drop Towers) - paired

These close readings are available in PDF format or digitally as Google Slides™ Presentations. Within each close reading PDF, there is a chart that lists the titles. The levels within that chart will take you to a presentation containing the leveled text, question sets, and journal prompts.

Note: These are the same close readings that are in the 3rd Grade NGSS Close Reading Bundle and the individual close readings (Life Cycles, Weather/Climate, Forces, Adaptations).

Math Integration

17 activities total

• • 11 center-type activities
  • 6 print-and-go activities

Science Labs

21 total. Titles are:

• • Elephant Tag
  • Fossil Simulation
  • Adaptation Battle
  • Bird Beak Simulation
  • Invasive Species Design Challenge (alternate version: Environmental Change Design Challenge)
  • Weather Multimedia Text Set
  • Build an Anemometer
  • Weather Conditions by Climate
  • Climate Graphing Task Cards
  • The Water Cycle
  • Weather Hazard Solution Design Challenge
  • Acquired Plant Traits
  • Height Line Plot
  • Life Cycle Model Design
  • Hybrid Animal Family Photo Album
  • Forces Scavenger Hunt
  • Magnetism Lab
  • Rocket Science
  • Pendulum Lab
  • Electromagnets Lab
  • Car Design Challenge

Art Integration

• Printables of 22 works of art
• Discussion questions to connect art and science
• 4 art lessons

Assessments

6 summative assessments:

- Life Cycles Assessment (16 questions)

- Weather and Climate (2 assessments; 17 questions and 8 questions)

- Forces and Motion (2 assessments; 13 questions and 16 questions)

- Adaptations and Biodiversity (18 questions)

- Each assessment comes with an answer key

Please see the previews for the individual files for more information.