Grade 3 Science Tennessee standards Standards

Algorithmic Thinking

Discuss the design process and use digital tools to illustrate potential solutions.

Create an algorithm to solve a problem as a collaborative team.

Identify problems to solve and generate questions for investigations.

Data Analysis

Use data to highlight or propose cause-and-effect relationships, predict outcomes, or communicate an idea.

Describe examples of data sets or databases from everyday life.

Earth's Place in the Universe

Use data to categorize the planets in the solar system as inner or outer planets according to their physical properties.

Earth's Systems

Explain the cycle of water on Earth.

Associate major cloud types (nimbus, cumulus, cirrus, stratus) with weather conditions.

Use tables, graphs, and tools to describe precipitation, temperature, and wind (direction and speed) to determine local weather and climate.

Incorporate weather data to describe major climates (polar, temperate, tropical) in different regions of the world.

Earth and Human Activity

Explain how natural hazards (fires, landslides, earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, floods) impact humans and the environment.

Design solutions to reduce the impact of natural hazards (fires, landslides, earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, floods) on the environment.

Engineering Design

Design a solution to a real-world problem that includes specified criteria for constraints.

Apply evidence or research to support a design solution.

Links Among Engineering, Technology, Science, and Society

Identify and demonstrate how technology can be used for different purposes.

Foundational Concepts

Use basic features of digital tools to communicate key ideas and details in a way that informs and/or persuades.

Locate and use appropriate online tools and resources to explore, research, and collect data on specific topics (e.g., applications, web browsers, and online tutorials).

Communicate key ideas and details collaboratively in a way that informs, persuades, and/or entertains, using digital tools.

From Molecules to Organisms: Structures and Processes

Analyze the internal and external structures that aquatic and land animals and plants have to support survival, growth, behavior, and reproduction.

Ecosystems: Interactions, Energy, and Dynamics

Construct an argument to explain why some animals benefit from forming groups.

Biological Change: Unity and Diversity

Explain the cause and effect relationship between a naturally changing environment and an organism's ability to survive.

Infer that plant and animal adaptations help them survive in land and aquatic biomes.

Explain how changes to an environment's biodiversity influence human resources.

Networking and the Internet

Advocate, demonstrate, and routinely practice safe, legal, and responsible use of information and technology.

Conduct basic keyword searches to produce valid, appropriate results, and evaluate results for accuracy, relevance, and appropriateness.

Programming Concepts

Analyze a given list of sub-problems while addressing a larger problem.

Define a problem or task, decompose it into smaller sub-problems.

Use numbers or letters to represent information in another form.

Matter and Its Interactions

Describe the properties of solids, liquids, and gases and identify that matter is made up of particles too small to be seen.

Differentiate between changes caused by heating or cooling that can be reversed and that cannot.

Describe and compare the physical properties of matter including color, texture, shape, length, mass, temperature, volume, state, hardness, and flexibility.

Motion and Stability: Forces and Interactions

Explain the cause and effect relationship of magnets.

Solve a problem by applying the use of the interactions between two magnets.

Energy

Recognize that energy is present when objects move; describe the effects of energy transfer from one object to another.

Apply scientific ideas to design, test, and refine a device that converts electrical energy to another form of energy, using open or closed simple circuits.

Evaluate how magnets cause changes in the motion and position of objects, even when the objects are not touching the magnet.

Earth’s Place in the Universe

Use data to categorize different bodies in our solar system including inner and outer planets, moons, asteroids, comets, and meteoroids according to their physical properties and motion.

Earth’s Systems

Develop a model to describe ways the geosphere, biosphere, hydrosphere, and/or atmosphere interact.

Develop a model to describe the cycling of water through Earth's spheres driven by energy from the sun.

Use tables, graphs, and tools to describe precipitation, temperature, clouds, and wind (i.e., direction and speed) to predict local weather and climate.

Incorporate weather data to describe major climates (e.g., polar, temperate, tropical) in different regions of the world.

Earth and Human Activity

Evaluate existing solutions that reduce the impact of natural hazards (e.g., fires, landslides, earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, floods, severe weather) on the environment.

Engineering Design

Design a solution to a real-world problem that includes specified criteria and constraints.

Apply evidence or research to support a design solution.

From Molecules to Organisms: Structures and Processes

Use graphical representations to compare how species including humans and other organisms have unique and diverse life cycles.

Analyze the internal and external structures that aquatic and land organisms have to support survival, growth, behavior, and reproduction.

Ecosystems: Interactions, Energy, and Dynamics

Obtain information to compare various ways that groups organize (e.g., specialized roles for members vs same roles for members) to explain the benefits of animal group behavior.

Biological Change: Unity and Diversity

Use evidence to explain the cause and effect relationship between a naturally changing habitat and how well an organism survives.

Use evidence to determine the changes between an environment's biodiversity and human resources.

Matter and Its Interactions

Develop a model of solids, liquids, and gasses to describe that each state of matter is made of particles too small to be seen.

Construct an explanation about the effects of heating and cooling a substance differentiating between changes that can be reversed (i.e., freezing & melting) and those that cannot (e.g., baking a cake or burning fuel).

Construct an argument based on evidence that materials have both fixed and changing properties, some of which are useful for identification of a material.

Motion and Stability: Forces and Interactions

Explain cause and effect relationships of forces that cannot be seen including interactions between two objects not in contact with each other (i.e., static electricity, magnetism and gravity).

Energy

Make observations of sound, light, heat, and motion to collect evidence that energy is present in a system.

Develop a model to show that energy can be transferred from place to place by electric currents in a system (e.g., open, closed, simple, parallel, series circuits).

Evaluate how magnets cause changes in the motion and position of objects, even when the objects are not touching the magnet.