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Earth sciences Common Core W.3.7 resources
Grade 3 Science Lessons BUNDLE, Digital and Printable
This is a BUNDLE of 5 hands-on science units that are perfect for Grade 3. All grade 3 science lessons are aligned to the British Columbia Grade 3 BC Big Ideas and NGSS. Each science unit includes detailed lesson plans so you don't have to create them! This bundle covers all of the Grade 3 BC Big Ideas for Science. In other provinces/territories/states the curriculum and content may be more appropriate for other grade levels.(See "Preview" for a specific breakdown of the curriculum covered).
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2nd - 4th
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Water Pollution Water Filter STEM
This environmental project challenges students to create a water filter to use with grey water to conserve water resources. The water filtration lab is a perfect Earth Day project. The engineering design process helps students investigate, plan, create, improve, and evaluate their filter. Students observe and collect data to write a report on findings. Leveled texts and writing prompts round out this jammed packed set! ☝ Click HERE to Save 25% on the Money Savings ALL STEM and STEAM BUNDLE! ☝ (
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3rd - 5th
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NGSS:
5-ESS3-1
, 3-5-ETS1-1
Also included in: STEM Activities STEM Challenges
Solar Oven Investigation: Make S'mores with a Pizza Box Solar Oven
Investigate the energy from the sun with this fun Common Core related unit. Students will work through the scientific process while responding in writing. This digital download contains:
Detailed Instructions on how to assemble a pizza box solar oven with photographs
Donation request sheet
Note pages for the scientific investigation
Data collection sheet
Graph for a bar or line plot
Graphic organizer for procedural writing
S'more themed writing paper
Standards addressed: RI.5, RI. 6, RI
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2nd - 5th
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Planets Research Report: Multi-Draft Informative Writing for Grades 3-5 (CCSS)
“I have done planet research writing for several years. This was a helpful resource to have everything ready to go.”“This made research so much easier for my students! Everything was scaffolded and easy to follow. Their reports came out great!”“I used this with ELL students as a research project. It was well laid out and I could adapt it easily to my students' needs. It did a good job walking students through the writing process.”Instead of doing several Informative Essays, I like to focus on j
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3rd - 5th
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Second Grade Natural Disasters Research Project
Looking for a primary note taking lesson on natural disasters? This lesson focuses on the basic facts and characteristics of extreme weather events and natural disasters. Students must identify the important words and phrases to include on these note taking sheets.Natural Disaster note taking sheets include:AvalanchesBlizzardsDroughtsDust StormsEarthquakesFloodsHurricanesLandslidesSinkholesThunderstormsTornadoesTsunamisVolcanoesWaterspoutsWildfiresA blank note taking page for customizationResear
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1st - 3rd
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Solar System Lapbook and Interactive Notebook Activities
The Solar System Lapbook will make a great interactive learning tool and study guide for your students as they learn about the sun, moon, planets, and more! The following is included with this resource:1. A lapbook title page (3 boy and 3 girl choices)2. “Composition of the Solar System” spinner. This spinner features the makeup of the solar system, including pictures that represent planets, the sun, the moon, asteroids, comets, and meteoroids.3. Solar System Vocabulary Pocket (24 cards with d
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Grades:
2nd - 5th
Changes in Ecosystems and Biomes Activity - Natural Disaster Research Project
This environmental changes science writing project will engage your students as they choose from five natural disasters to research! Keep your upper elementary writing students organized with printable graphic organizers that guide them to write detailed paragraphs describing environmental changes caused by a disaster. Students will illustrate the ecosystem before and after the natural disaster occurred using the printable final project pages. This no-prep, Common Core Aligned, cross-curricular
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3rd - 6th
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Natural Disaster Research and Poster Project
Students will love the chance to research natural disasters and then creatively display what they learned with this Natural Disaster Poster Project! Included are unique research packets that will help students organize information they gather from books or online resources on 10 natural disasters. Packets will contain questions that ask disaster definitions, cause/effects, locations, ways to measure, safety precautions, interesting facts, and a famous disaster. Packets are divided into 4 section
Sun, Moon, Earth Solar System Digital Distance Learning Units BUNDLE for Google
SUN, MOON, EARTH Solar System GOOGLE Classroom Digital Unit captivates attention, promotes higher learning and leads to independent exploration about the world around us. This bundle includes 3 separate digital units listed at 20% off: The Sun, The Moon, and Earth. 51 Interactive pages for GOOGLE classroom AND 43 GOOGLE slide presentations for research.Utilize Google Classroom and open the entire resource in Google Slides to present information about tornadoes in an interactive, digital format t
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2nd - 3rd
Light Reflection STEAM and STEM Challenge
Are your students studying reflection and light? This Physical Science STEAM and STEM challenge provides a hands-on learning approach to understanding how reflection impacts human sight! This project requires students to develop a model which describes how light reflecting from objects enters the eyes, causing sight. The activity incorporates the engineering design cycle and includes a leveled text. Students use their observations to write a learning report before a classroom showcase. Writ
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3rd - 5th
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NGSS:
4-PS4-2
Also included in: STEM Activities STEM Challenges
Shadow Length Direction STEM and STEAM
Learning about Earth's rotation, light and shadows? In this Earth Science Shadow STEM, students create a shadow catcher to see how Earth's rotation effects shadows. Students use the engineering design process in this shadow activity to investigate, plan, create, improve, and evaluate their catcher. Observations and collected data is used to write a report on their findings. Leveled texts and writing prompts round out this jammed packed set! Next Generation Science Standards: NGSS 5-ESS1-2, 1-ESS
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1st - 5th
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NGSS:
1-ESS1-1
, 5-ESS1-2
Also included in: STEM Activities STEM Challenges
Magnet STEM & STEAM Force and Motion
Are your students learning about magnetic repel and attraction? This hands-on magnetic station helps students understand magnetism! Students use the engineering design process to modify a product using magnets to help make a task easier in this invention magnet lab. Also included: a leveled text, submission report, a classroom showcase, and writing prompts! ☝ Click HERE to Save over 25% on the Money Savings ALL STEM and STEAM BUNDLE! ☝(Currently: 16 NGSS Aligned Projects) ❤ All STEM Projects are
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2nd - 4th
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NGSS:
3-PS2-3
, 3-PS2-4
Also included in: STEM Activities STEM Challenges
Animal Brochure - Informational Writing Research Project for Grade 3 & 4
Have you been looking for the perfect research-based project on animals and biomes for your elementary students? Look no further! This brochure is for you! This resource will have your students exercising their research skills meanwhile improving their informational writing. Get to know your students better as they research their favorite animals, meanwhile demonstrating what they've learned in class in regards to animal classification (species), animal adaptations, food chains, biomes, and so m
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3rd - 5th
Also included in: 3 Science Brochures/Pamphlets - Research Projects for Grades 3 to 6
NGSS Grade 3 Weather Hazards Engineer a Solution Performance Assessment EES3-1
3-EES3-1 Make a claim about the merit of a design solution that reduces the impacts of a weather-related hazard. [Clarification Statement: Examples of design solutions to weather-related hazards could include barriers to prevent flooding, wind resistant roofs, and lightning rods.)Description: of assessment: Students make a claim about the merits of a design solution that reduces the impact of two weather related hazards. Students begin with a review by using a template to build a house, placing
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3rd - 5th
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NGSS:
3-ESS3-1
Informational Writing Graphic Organizer and Videos for Research Project
A few years ago while doing distance learning I made a research paper project for my writing class. It included informational graphic organizers, writing templates and more. We did our informational writing for natural disasters so I included that and I also made blank templates for you to use with your students for any research topic.This product gives you everything you will need to teach research writing to your students. There is a printable version that you can print and your students can c
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2nd - 4th
Water Erosion STEM and STEAM Challenge
Students develop a creek bank preservation solution in this Earth Science project. Using the engineering design cycle, students use their observations and collected data to write a report. Writing prompts and science leveled text round out this jammed packed set! ☝ Click HERE to Save over 25% on the Money Savings ALL STEM and STEAM BUNDLE! ☝ (Currently: 16 NGSS Aligned Projects) ❤ All STEM Projects are OPEN ENDED, allowing student flexibility to create and test unique designs. ❤Next Generation
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3rd - 5th
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NGSS:
2-ESS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-1
, 4-ESS2-1
Also included in: Weather Unit
Earth Day Virtual Field Trip - 2nd, 3rd, 4th, and 5th Grade
Join me on a virtual field trip! On this field trip, students will use their critical thinking, reading, writing, and listening skills to explore and learn about our incredible Earth. Students will learn about recycling, climate change, composting, national parks, wildlife, and more! They will also get to explore the world using Google Maps and other websites with virtual tour capabilities! ⭐Check out the quick preview video for a taste of what this field trip has to offer. This resource includ
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2nd - 5th
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Severe Weather Research Project
Encourage your students to take ownership of their own learning with this exciting Severe Weather Research Project! These task cards include all of the directions and rubrics you need to get students learning about different types of severe weather and presenting their learning in interesting ways.Types of Weather:TORNADOSHURRICANEEARTHQUAKEVOLCANOBLIZZARDDROUGHTWILDFIRETSUNAMIEach type of weather has its own set of research questions to guide students through their learning.Types of Project Pr
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3rd - 5th
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NGSS:
3-ESS3-1
, 3-ESS2-2
, 4-ESS2-1
Ocean Animal Research: A Guided Research and Report Writing Pack
This ocean animal guided research and report writing is designed as a way for students to be able to organize their research on an ocean animal and put it together in a report format.
Included in this pack:
*A booklet designed for organizing information that is gathered. There are pages included for:
Questions
About the animal, including classification, zone and life cycle
Habitat
Predators
Behavior
Appearance
Diet
Interesting Facts
The researchers opinion
Sources
Also included in this pack
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1st - 3rd
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Seven Continents Passages, Report Sheets, and Paired Passage Prompts
Get your students prepped and ready to meet the Common Core State Standards through this Seven Continents pack that integrates social studies, science, ELA, and research skills!
What you get:
-Seven continent passages - one for each continent
-Continent quick (research) report sheets
-Country quick (research) report sheets
-Paired passage prompts
-World map launching or culminating activity
Use this set to teach your students about world geography centering on the location, climate, landforms,
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3rd - 5th
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Dinosaur Brochure/Pamphlet - Research Project for Grade 3 & 4
Here's the perfect research brochure for your elementary students! As an elementary Visual Arts & Science specialist, I know how hard it can be to find engaging and aesthetically pleasing research projects that are age-appropriate for our students. Thus, I designed this dinosaur trifold, brochure, pamphlet (or whatever you call it!) with my grade 3 and 4 students in mind! Whenever wrapping up our unit on Fossils, I end it with this simple yet engaging research project on dinosaurs.This educa
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3rd - 4th
Also included in: 3 Science Brochures/Pamphlets - Research Projects for Grades 3 to 6
Ocean Biome Animal Adaptations Google Slides® Notebook
The Ocean Biome Animal Adaptations Interactive Digital Notebook is designed to support the Next Generation Standards for learning about adaptations in third grade (LS3.A, LS3.B, LS4.C). This Google Slides digital resource with 17 slides provides practice for students to research animal adaptations in the ocean.HOW IT WORKSEach student is assigned the Ocean Biome Animals Adaptations for Google Slides Project. Each slide has a specific task involved. Students collect data from images and a video o
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Grades:
3rd - 5th
NGSS:
3-LS4-3
, 3-LS3-2
, 3-LS3-1
Also included in: Animal Adaptations Bundle 2 Digital Notebooks on Google Slides
WEATHER & CLIMATE: NGSS for 3rd Grade (2024 Revision)
Use this open-ended project to study weather and climate.Revised: 1/21/2024(TPT GOOGLE VERSION of this product.)INCLUDES: Plan, How to search for Interactives, Standards, Note Taking Form, Rubric, Product Ideas for Students, a Google Version link, and much moreWRITTEN FOR 3RD GRADE~CAN BE MODIFIED FOR OTHER GRADES~Cover Science and Technology Standards~Students who demonstrate understanding can:3-ESS2-1. Represent data in tables and graphical displays to describe typical weather conditions expec
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3rd - 6th
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NGSS:
3-ESS3-1
, 3-ESS2-1
, 3-ESS2-2
Research and Write: Biomes
Research and Write: Biomes will guide your students through a mini research project on a biome of their choice. They will use their research to compose a five paragraph essay of their findings.
Students will research the climate, plants and animals of the biome, as well as explore how humans impact the biome. This activity fits well with Earth Day, a unit on biomes or ecosystems, or any other time you want to connect research and writing.
This low prep activity is a great way to address m
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Grades:
3rd - 5th
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