Marysville School District Elementary School Science Plan

Third Grade

Unit/Topic / NGSS Performance Expectations and Evidence Statements / Mystery Science Lesson / Science and Engineering Lesson Ideas and Resources / ReadyGen ELA Curriculum Connection
Life Science /

Interdependent Relationships in Ecosystems: Environmental Impacts on Organisms

3-LS2-1Construct an argument that some animalsform groups that helpmembers survive.
3-LS2-1 Evidence Statements
3-LS4-1Analyze and interpret datafrom fossils to provide evidence of the organisms and the environments in which they livedlong ago.
3-LS4-1 Evidence Statements
3-LS4-3Construct an argument with evidence thatin a particular habitat some organisms can survive well, some survive less well, and some cannot survive at all.
3-LS4-3 Evidence Statements
3-LS4-4Make a claim about the merit ofa solution to a problemcaused whenthe environment changes and the types of plants and animals that live theremay change.
3-LS4-4 Evidence Statements

Inheritance and Variation of Traits: Life Cycles and Traits

3-LS1-1Develop models to describe thatorganisms have unique and diverse life cyclesbut all have in commonbirth, growth, reproduction, and death.
3-LS1-1 Evidence Statements
3-LS3-1Analyze and interpret data to provide evidence thatplants and animals have traits inherited from parentsand that variation of these traits exists in a group of similarorganisms.
3-LS3-1 Evidence Statements
3-LS3-2Use evidence to support the explanation thattraitscan be influenced bythe environment.
3-LS3-2 Evidence Statements
3-LS4-2Use evidence to construct an explanation for howthe variations in characteristics among individuals of the same species may provide advantagesin surviving, finding mates, and reproducing.
3-LS4-2 Evidence Statements / Power of Flowers
Animals Through Time / Interdependent Relationships in Ecosystems
●Muskox Maneuvers
●Musk Ox Save Calf from Wolves Video
●Insects That Work Together
●Mass Environmental Change
●Battle at Kruger: Water Buffalo Save Calf from Lions Video
●A Walk in the Desert (Biomes of North America)
●A Walk in the Deciduous Forest (Biomes of North America)
●A Walk in the Rain Forest (Biomes of North America)
●A Walk in the Prairie (Biomes of North America)
●A Walk in the Tundra (Biomes of North America)
●A Walk in the Boreal Forest (Biomes of North America)
●A Journey into the Ocean (Biomes of North America)
●Journey Into an Estuary (Biomes of North America)
Inheritance and Variation of Traits
●Guppies Galore
●Peas, Please!
●Let's Hear It For Ladybugs!
●Simply Butterflies!
●A Time of Their Own
●Animal Detectives / Unit 1
●The Case of the Gasping Garbage
●Location, Location, Location
●About Earth
●Sleuth: “A Whale of
a Rescue”; “Backyard Safari”
Unit 2
●The Athabascans: Old Ways and New Ways;
●The Frog Princess: A Tlingit Legend from Alaska
Unit 1
●The Case of the Gasping Garbage
●Location, Location, Location
Unit 3
●Knots on a Counting Rope
Earth and Space Science / 3-ESS2-1Represent data in tables and graphical displays to describetypical weather conditionsexpected during a particular season.
3-ESS2-1 Evidence Statements
3-ESS2-2Obtain and combine information to describeclimates in different regionsof the world.
3-ESS2-2 Evidence Statements
3-ESS3-1Make a claim about the merit of a design solutionthat reduces the impacts ofa weather-related hazard.
3-ESS3-1 Evidence Statements / Stormy Skies / Unit 1
●Thunder Cake
Unit 2
●City Homes
Unit 3
●Storm in the Night
●Knots on a Counting Rope
●Paul Bunyan: Growing Up
●Sleuth: “We Need New Tornado Warnings!”; “Taking Shelter”
●On the Same Day in March
●Living Through a Natural Disaster
●On the Same Day in March, A Tour of the World’s Weather
●Sleuth: “Weather Work”; “Be-Prepared”
Physical Science / 3-PS2-1Plan and conduct an investigation to provide evidenceof the effects ofbalanced and unbalanced forces on the motion of an object.
3-PS2-1 Evidence Statements
3-PS2-2Make observations and/or measurementsof an object’s motionto provide evidencethat a pattern can be used to predict future motion.
3-PS2-2 Evidence Statements
3-PS2-3Ask questions to determinecause and effect relationshipsof electric or magnetic interactions between two objects not in contact with each other.
3-PS2-3 Evidence Statements
3-PS2-4Define a simple design problem that can be solvedby applying scientific ideasabout magnets.
3-PS2-4 Evidence Statements / Invisible Forces / ●Investigating the Magnetic Force Field: Calculating the Magnetic Pull of a Magnet by Varying Distances
●Static Cling
●Charge It!
●Attraction With Static Electricity
●Robo Arm
●Investigating Motion: What Causes Objects to Move?
●Inquiry-Based Science and the Next Generation Science Standards: A Magnetic Attraction
●Javier Builds a Bridge / To Get To The Other Side:Building Bridges
●Gravity Racers
●How Does Force Affect Motion?
●Mission: Solar System: Invisible Force Challenge
●Designing a Hovercraft
●Force and Motion Investigation
●Mystery Forces / Unit 1
●The Moon Seems to Change