Alberta - Grade 3 Full Year Bundle - Math - Science - Social Studies

FULLY UPDATED FOR THE NEW 2022 AND 2023 CURRICULUMS! BOTH GOOGLE SLIDES AND PDF VERSIONS INCLUDED!

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Grade 3 - Alberta Math Curriculum - UPDATED 2022

Strand 1 - Number (Number Sense)

Concepts that are covered:

• Place value of numbers within 100 000
• Determining the value of digits within 100 000
• Expressing natural numbers using words and numerals
• Rounding natural numbers to various places (10, 100, 1000)
• Compare and order natural numbers within 100 000
• Money – counting and representing values using cents and dollars
• Loonies, toonies, and bills as dollars
• Recognize French and English symbolic representations of monetary values
• Adding and subtracting of two-digit numbers
• Using standard algorithms to add and subtract
• Estimate sums and differences – rounding and front-end estimation
• Solving word problems involving addition and subtraction
• Multiplication and division facts
• Representing multiplication and division using models and arrays
• Multiplication mental math strategies – skip counting (repeated addition), doubling and halving
• Division mental math strategies – repeated subtraction, skip counting
• Writing multiplication and division sentences to represent problems
• Determining the missing quantity in a product or quotient
• Examine patterns in multiplication and division – skip counting and multiplication table
• Model fractions limited to denominators of 12 or less
• Name fractions
• Benchmark fractions
• Comparing the size of fractions – common denominators, common numerators
• Writing fractions on a number line
• 4 Unit tests
• Answer pages for all activities

Strand 2 - Patterns and Algebra

Some of the concepts that are covered:

• Number patterns
• Increasing and decreasing number patterns
• Finding number patterns using a hundreds chart
• Odd and even number patterns
• Ordinal numbers
• Finite and infinite sequences
• Skip counting – rows and columns of a multiplication table
• Finding the missing term in a skip-counting sequence using multiplication
• Describing the change from term to term – pattern rules
• Writing equations that represent a simple problem
• Balancing an equation
• Writing two expressions that equal each other
• Modelling equations using a balance
• Finding an unknown number in an equation
• Determining the unknown number in an addition, subtraction, multiplication and division sentence
• Solving word problems involving unknown numbers and all four operations
• 2 Unit Tests
• Answer pages for all activities

Strand 3 - Geometry, Measurement and Time

Some of the concepts that are covered:

• What is a polygon?
• Perpendicular and parallel sides
• 90° angles
• Finding 90° angles in your environment using referents
• Regular vs irregular polygons
• Triangles, quadrilaterals, pentagons, hexagons and octagons
• Classifying polygons based on number of sides and angles
• Transformations – translations, reflections, rotations
• Describing transformations
• Performing transformations
• Comparing millimetres, centimetres, and metres
• Justify the choice of millimetres, centimetres, or metres to measure
• Measure lengths of straight lines and curves, with millimetres, centimetres, or metres
• Imperial system – inches, feet, and yards
• Relating metric units to imperial units – cm to inches, cm to feet, metres to yards
• Finding the perimeter of polygons
• Determining the unknown length of polygons using the perimeter
• Estimate lengths using centimetres and metres using referents
• Comparing angles using superimposing methods
• Comparing two angles using a referent
• Investigate relationships between seconds, minutes, and hours using an analog clock
• Relate minutes past the hour to minutes until the next hour.
• Describe time of day as a.m. or p.m. relative to 12-hour cycles of day and night.
• Tell time using analog and digital clocks.
• Express time of day in relation to one 24-hour cycle.
• 3 Unit Tests
• Answer pages for all activities

Strand 4 - Statistics and Probability (Data Analysis)

Some of the concepts that are covered:

• What is a statistical question?
• Create statistical questions to investigate
• What is a population?
• Predict the answers to statistical questions
• First-hand data and second-hand data
• Collect first-hand data
• Tally marks and frequency tables
• Create statistical questions for second-hand data
• Represent first-hand data in a dot plot
• Represent first-hand data in a bar graph
• Represent second-hand data in a bar graph
• Interpret dot plots and tell the story of the data
• Interpret bar graphs and tell the story of the data
• Interpret bar graphs of First Nation and Inuit topics
• Unit test
• Answer pages for all activities

Alberta - Grade 3 Science Curriculum - NEW 2023 CURRICULUM

Matter

Some of the concepts that are covered:

• What are raw materials?
• Sorting raw materials and processed materials
• Changing materials – reversible changes and irreversible changes
• Physical and chemical changes to materials
• Changing cotton – how to make clothing
• Changing materials by cutting or bending them
• How to make paper and plastic
• Materials we use now versus materials we used in the past
• Indigenous use of trees, rocks, plants, animals, ice, and shells
• Activity – making a wampum belt
• Activity – making an Inuit Inukshuk
• Activity – ordering the steps to make a Wigwam and Longhouse
• How the buffalo was used – tools, clothing, food, etc.
• What is matter?
• All about liquids – properties of liquids
• Liquids used at home
• Flowing liquids
• Experiment – testing the flow of liquids
• Properties of solids
• Experiment – weight of solid versus liquid
• All about gases
• Experiment – does air have any weight?
• Changes in state – physical changes involving heat
• Melting point
• Experiment – testing the melting point of water
• Freezing point
• Freezing rain and the Cryosphere (glaciers)
• Boiling point
• Evaporation – examples
• Experiment – testing evaporation
• Condensation – reading and experiment
• Sublimation and deposition
• The water cycle – diagram and reading
• Experiment – making a model water cycle
• Coding – supercomputers predicting the weather
• Writing code – weather reports
• Coding activities – winter puzzle and spot the difference
• Unit test
• Answer pages for all activities

Energy (Forces)

Some of the concepts that are covered:

• What is a force?
• Push and pull forces
• Contact forces – applied, friction, tension, and elastic
• Experiment – demonstrating an applied force (ball throw)
• Contact force – frictional force
• Experiment – friction car ramp
• Experiment – frictional force power
• Contact force – tension
• Contact force – spring force
• Experiment – popsicle stick catapult
• Newton’s First Law of Motion
• Experiment – demonstrating the first law of motion
• Law of inertia
• Experiment – demonstrating inertia
• Balanced and unbalanced forces
• Examples of balanced and unbalanced forces
• Forces from different directions
• Objects changing direction
• Force diagram – changing directions
• Describing the strength of forces
• Protective gear – staying safe against strong forces
• Coding activities – if/then statements
• Simple machines
• Wheel and axle
• Experiment – making clothespin car and balloon car
• Inclined plane – calculating the mechanical advantage
• Experiment – creating an inclined plane
• Simple machine: levers
• Experiment – testing different levers
• Simple machine: wedge
• Experiment – demonstrating the use of a wedge
• Indigenous groups using simple machines – Paddle and Antler Wedge
• Inuit sculpting tools – the Ula
• Coding – making simple machines
• Coding – if/then statements: machine lawn mowers
• Unit test
• Answer pages for all activities

Earth Systems (Changing Earth)

Some of the concepts that are covered:

• Sudden versus gradual changes to Earth
• Layers of Earth
• The Earth’s plates
• Mountains – how they are formed
• Experiment – Types of plate boundaries
• The Rocky Mountains
• Glaciers – how they form valleys
• Experiment – making a valley
• Riverbeds formed by glaciers
• How human activities melt glaciers
• Journey of water from glaciers to the ocean
• Mapping activity – drawing the route glacial water takes to the Arctic Ocean
• Coding activity – writing a program that moves a glacier
• Volcano – how they change the Earth’s surface
• Experiment – making a model volcano
• Landslides changing the Earth’s surface
• Weathering, erosion, and deposition
• Coastal erosion – sea stumps, sea caves and sea arches
• Meandering streams
• How lakes fill up and dry out
• Wind and water shaping the Badlands
• How human’s change the Earth’s surface
• Overpopulation, burrowing animals, and pests
• Earth’s layers and fossils
• Experiment – making fossils
• Dating fossils
• Alberta millions of years ago – inland sea and rainforest
• The Dinosaurs of Alberta – Albertosaurus, Edmontosaurus, Nodosaurus, Tyrannosaurus
• Coding activity – finding fossils underground
• All about soil
• Organic matter and living things in soil
• Layers of soil
• Experiment – soil composition test
• The importance of soil
• Unit test
• Answer pages for all activities

Living Systems - Plants and Animals

Some of the concepts that are covered:

• Herbivores, carnivores, and omnivores
• Experiment – making animal scat based on diet
• Classifying living things based on diets
• Food chains in Alberta
• Food chains in wetlands, deserts, arctics, and African savannas
• Food webs
• Story – Alberta food chain
• Plants responding to light – phototropism
• Experiment – demonstrating phototropism
• Plants responding to touch
• Plants responding to water and gravity
• Experiment – water travels through plants
• Experiment – Tasty Leaves
• How animals respond to light
• Nocturnal and diurnal animals
• How animals respond to temperature – migration and hibernation
• Experiment – making a flying paper airplane
• Animal senses – super hearing animals and super smelling animals
• How animals use their sense of taste and sight
• Animals with super sense of touch
• How humans use plants
• Indigenous use of plants – medicine, shelter, food, and clothing
• Indigenous use of tobacco plants
• Plants need animals – spreading seeds and pollination
• Experiment – demonstrating pollination
• Coding activity – robotic bees
• Writing code – mapping robotic bees
• Animals need plants – food, shelter, and oxygen
• How humans can help plants
• Rules and laws protecting animals – fishing counts and tracking animals
• Planting trees – 2 Billion Trees Program
• Coding – drawing plants
• Indigenous understanding of animals – behaviours and migration patterns
• Métis Seasonal Rounds
• Unit test
• Answer pages for all activities

Alberta Social Studies Grade 3 Curriculum

3.1 - Communities in the World

Quality of Life

- Healthcare

- Employment

- Roles of the Family

- Gender Roles

- Schooling/Education

Culture and Identity

- Traditions and Customs

- Celebrations

- Languages

- The Arts

Characteristics of Community

- Government

- Homes in India

- Goods and Services: Imports vs Exports

- Transportation

Communities

- India

- Tunisia

- Ukraine

- Peru

3.2 - Global Citizenship

• Key Terms
• Global Citizenship
• Canadian Citizenship
• Rights and Responsibilities
• Charter of Rights and Freedoms
• Global Rights Around the World
• Rights Around the World – Questions
• Children Rights Around the World
• Children Rights Around the World – Questions
• Responsibilities
• Organizations for Change
• Organizations for Change
• United Nations
• The Red Cross Organization
• The Red Cross Organization – Questions
• Global Issue: Climate Change
• Helping the Wildlife
• Free the Children – Child Labour
• Free the Children – Child Labour – Questions
• Children Build Schools in Haiti
• UNICEF
• UNICEF Changing Lives
• Doctors Without Borders
• The World Health Organization (WHO)
• Activities – Global Citizenship
• Unit Test – Global Citizenship

*** Answer sheets are included ***

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