Grade 3 Science Nebraska standards Standards

Forces and Interactions: Motion and Stability SC.3.1.1 Gather, analyze, and communicate evidence of

Gather, analyze, and communicate evidence of forces and their interactions.

Plan and conduct an investigation to provide evidence of the effects of balanced and unbalanced forces on the motion of an object.

Make observations and/or measurements of an object’s motion to provide evidence that a pattern can be used to predict future motion.

Ask questions to determine cause and effect relationships of electrical or magnetic interactions between two objects not in contact with each other.

Define a simple design problem that can be solved by applying scientific ideas about magnets.

Weather and Climate

Gather and analyze data to communicate an understanding of weather and climate.

Represent data in table, pictograph, and bar graph displays to describe typical weather conditions expected during a particular season.

Obtain and combine information to describe climates in different regions of the world.

Make a claim about the merit of a design solution that reduces the impacts of a weather-related hazard.

Interdependent Relationships in Ecosystems

Gather, analyze, and communicate evidence of the interdependent relations in ecosystems.

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

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

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.

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.

Generate and compare multiple possible solutions to a problem based on how well each is likely to meet the criteria and constraints of the problem.

Inheritance and Variation: Life Cycles and Traits

Gather and analyze data to communicate an understanding of inheritance and variation of traits through life cycles and environmental influences.

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

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.

Use evidence to support the explanation that traits can be influenced by the environment.