Students will learn that animals have parts that are called features, and those features have functions that allow them to survive in their habitat. Students will conduct research on an animal of their choice and write an informative paragraph about that animals features.
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Google folder with resources for teaching Weather and Climate Patterns, including Googles Slides and accompanying studnent journal files. Contains 4 episodes.
SEEd Canvas module - Includes a Slides presentation, links to instructional materials, and assignments.
Thanksgiving Point lesson plan about observing weather patterns
Thanksgiving Point lesson plan about climate patterns
Thanksgiving Point lesson plan about natural disasters
Thanksgiving Point lesson plan about animal life cycles
Thanksgiving Point lesson plan about human genetic traits
Develop and use models to describe changes that organisms go through during their life cycles. Emphasize that organisms have unique and diverse life cycles but follow a pattern of birth, growth, reproduction, and death. Examples of changes in life cycles could include how some plants and animals look different at different stages of life or how other plants
and animals only appear to change size in their life.
Thanksgiving Point lesson plan about traits and behaviors
Construct an explanation showing how variations in traits and behaviors can affect the ability of an individual to survive and reproduce. Examples of traits could include large thorns protecting a plant from being eaten or strong-smelling flowers to attract certain pollinators. Examples of behaviors could include animals living in groups for protection or migrating to find more food.
Thanksgiving Point lesson plan about animal environments
Google folder with Googles Slides and accompanying studnent journal files. Contains 5 episodes.
Plan and carry out investigations that provide evidence of the effects of balanced and unbalanced forces on the motion of an object. Emphasize investigations where only one variable is tested at a time. Examples could include an unbalanced force on one side of a ball causing it to move and balanced forces pushing on a box from both sides producing no movement.
Analyze and interpret data from observations and measurements of an object’s motion to identify patterns in its motion that can be used to predict future motion. Examples of motion with a predictable pattern could include a child swinging on a swing or a ball rolling down a ramp.
Google folder with Googles Slides and accompanying studnent journal files
Construct an explanation that the gravitational force exerted by Earth causes objects to be directed downward, toward the center of the spherical Earth. Emphasize that "downward" is a local description depending on one’s position on Earth.
Ask questions to plan and carry out an investigation to determine cause and effect relationships of electric or magnetic interactions between two objects not in contact with each other. Emphasize how static electricity and magnets can cause objects to move without touching. Examples could include the force an electrically charged balloon has on hair, how magnet orientation affects the direction of a force, or how the distance between objects affects the strength of a force. Electrical charges and magnetic fields will be taught in Grades 6 through 8.
This is an interactive 3rd grade lesson plan to reinforce 3.MD.5, 3.MD.6, and 3.MD.7 the concept of area. This lesson will most likely span over the course of a couple of days. Thumbnail "farm scene" by Christian Collins, Creative Commons license CC BY-SA 2.0.