Science Lessons and Investigations - Grade 3
Follow life cycles, decode fossils, and test magnets in 12 NGSS-aligned units blending investigations, readings, and vocabulary to grow your third grader’s scientific thinking across life, Earth, and physical science.
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Science Lessons and Investigations - Grade 3
Nature leaves clues, and third graders learn how to interpret them. In twelve NGSS-aligned units, your child will trace animal life cycles, discover how traits are passed from one generation to the next, explore how groups of animals work together, and use fossils to investigate the past. He'll also track weather patterns, compare climates, and uncover the forces behind motion and magnetism.
Each unit combines hands-on investigations, real-world photographs, vocabulary development, and short readings that encourage students to observe, question, and explain what they discover. "Prove It" checkpoints provide opportunities to apply new knowledge and reinforce key concepts.
By the end of the year, your child will have strengthened his ability to think scientifically, analyze evidence, and make connections across a wide range of life, earth, and physical science topics. Teacher support pages and a complete answer key are included for easy guidance and review.
See the first 8 pages of this book to browse all that it has to offer.
Science Lessons and Investigations provides you with teaching support and comprehensive science units that include:
- Concept engagement activity that sparks students’ interest and engages prior knowledge by introducing each topic with questions and discussion. (Engage)
- Exploration activity that helps students explore the concept through hands-on investigation*. (Explore)
- Reading selections, real-life visuals, and vocabulary review to help students develop understanding. (Explain)
- Comprehension activities incorporating higher-order thinking to help students show and apply what they have learned. (Evaluate)
- Writing prompts and hands-on activities* to help students apply and extend their understanding. (Extend)
*The hands-on activities may include science experiments, STEM challenges, art projects, or other cross-curricular activities.
Topics covered in Science Lessons and Investigations Grade 3 include:
Life Science
- Plant and Animal Life Cycles
- Nature and Nurture
- Adaptations
- Organisms in a Changing Environment
- Group and Social Behavior
- Fossils of Ancestors
Earth Science
- Weather
- Climate
- Natural Processes and Hazards
Physical Science
- Changes in Movement
- Predicting Motion from Patterns
- Magnetic Forces
Publisher's Information
Publisher: Evan-Moor Educational Publishers
Age Recommendation: 8
Grade Recommendation: 3rd
Faith-Based: No
Consumable: Yes
Pages: 224
Units: 12
ISBN: 9781645140054
Format: Softcover
Copyright: 2020
The Science Lessons & Investigations series uses the 5E model—five simple steps that turn science into discovery.
- Engage – Start with a quick hook: a question, photo, or short activity that gets kids wondering and making predictions.
- Explore – Let him try it. Your child will investigate, test, and observe before anyone gives away the "answer."
- Explain – Your child shares what he's found, then you connect his discoveries to the right science words and concepts.
- Evaluate – Check for understanding with a drawing, a short explanation, or another quick task that shows what he's learned.
- Extend – Wrap it up by applying the concept to something new—maybe an experiment, model, or real-world problem.
It's a simple structure that keeps science active, interactive, and rooted in real thinking.
Review by Farmhouse on Third:
”Science units build upon prior knowledge and experience and allow students to apply their understanding in a creative way. Each unit guides students through exploring the science concept and includes hands-on activities to extend learning.”
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- December 19, 2021
Great option if you like to customize your science or streamline it.
Regina S.
The book will guide you through everything you need for science and give you more ideas of things to do than you'll have time to carry out. It has 12 chapters, you can spend 3 weeks on each, or if you get a lot of science elsewhere, just do it every third week. Each unit has the lesson for you, a science project, two optional Language Arts writing prompts (one creative writing and one scientific), a vocabulary worksheet, and a concept worksheet. Its all black and white, but if you want to look up colorful versions on the internet or interactive versions on educational websites, you'll know what to look for. There are two optional extension projects with each chapter one usually involves research, the internet and technology and the other is usually arts and crafts based. I'm super impressed by each project in the book, they are not repetitive at all. If you like to work on projects together as a family this book is a great resource for ideas. They are all different and interesting. The projects don't call for any hard to get supplies. Mostly stuff you would have on hand or could get at Walmart. The most unusual things I found were plaster (walmart craft section), a spinning top, magnets, and a sprinkler that rotates, but a rotating sprinkler can be found at a park or lots of pools have water features with moving pieces (sounds like a fun science day at the park or pool!) and you could probably make a top if you can't find one. I think this book has sufficient material for the year, but you could easily add in things like youtube videos, science kits, library books if you like that kind of thing. Also if you really want to do your own explorations for science this book is a good option because it gives you all the topics to cover in a year and you can just add on from there.
- November 18, 2020
Good, age level science
Stephanie
I got this book as a substitute for my 3rd grader's science curriculum. The Science of the Revolutionary was too intense for 3rd grade, and a very difficult read/review. This is so much more age and level appropriate. So glad we made the switch to this book.
