3rd Grade NGSS Life Science Curriculum at Science Lessons and Activities

This resource includes all of my resources for 3rd-grade NGSS Life Science. This collection of resources covers the life science standards for NGSS. Students will explore in hands-on, inquiry-based lessons. Students will read nonfiction scientific passages in a close reading format. They will respond on response pages that include text-dependent questions and are aligned with CCSS for Reading informational text for specific 3rd-grade standards. Students will record information in interactive notebook flaps and folds that go with each activity. Scientific background and questions for teachers to ask are included.

Units Included In this Bundle:

• Habitats and Adaptations
• Animals Live in Groups
• Rabbit Life Cycle
• Butterfly Life Cycle
• Life Cycle of a Sunflower
• Pumpkin Unit
• Inherited and Acquired Traits
• Camouflage and Mimicry

All Life Science Disciplinary Core Ideas are addressed:

Molecules to Organisms: Structure and Processes

Ecosystem: Interactions, Energy and Dynamic

Heredity: Inheritance and Variation of Traits

Biological Diversity: Unity and Diversity

ALL NGSS for 3rd Grade Life Science Addressed

3-LS1-1. Develop models to describe that organisms have unique and diverse life cycles but all have in common birth, growth, reproduction, and death.

3-LS2-1

Construct an argument that some animals form groups that help members survive.

3-LS3-1 Analyze and interpret data to provide evidence that plants and animals have traits inherited from parents and that variation of these traits exists in a group of similar organisms.

3-LS3-2. Use evidence to support the explanation that traits can be influenced by the environment.

3-LS4-1. Analyze and interpret data from fossils to provide evidence of the organisms and the environments in which they lived long ago.

3-LS4-2. Use evidence to construct an explanation for how the variations in characteristics among individuals of the same

species may provide advantages in surviving, finding mates, and reproducing.

3-LS4-3. Construct an argument with evidence that in a particular habitat some organisms can survive well, some survive less well, and some cannot survive at all

3-LS4-4. Make a claim about the merit of a solution to a problem caused when the environment changes and the types of plants and animals that live there may change.

Science Concepts Include:

Camouflage

Mimicry

Life cycle of butterflies

Life cycle of sunflowers

Life cycle of a rabbit

Life cycle of a pumpkin

Habitat

Adaptations

Why some animals live in groups?

Animal Behavior

Inherited Traits

Acquired Traits

Physical Traits

Behavioral Traits

Variations in Traits

Fossils as evidence of past life on Earth

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These resources are also available in my Full Year Bundle for NGSS which includes ALL the DCIs,

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