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3.1 Weather and Climate Patterns

• 3.1.1 Analyze and interpret data to reveal patterns that indicate typical weather conditions expected during a particular season.

  • Read a thermometer (3-S.1)
  • Compare temperatures on thermometers (3-S.2)
  • Collect and graph temperature data (3-S.3)
  • Use climate data to make predictions (3-S.7)
  • Use data to describe U.S. climates (3-S.8)
  • Use data to describe world climates (3-S.9)

• 3.1.2 Obtain and communicate information to describe climate patterns in different regions of the world.

  • What's the difference between weather and climate? (3-S.4)
  • Weather and climate around the world (3-S.5)
  • Weather or climate? Cite text (3-S.6)
  • Use climate data to make predictions (3-S.7)
  • Use data to describe U.S. climates (3-S.8)
  • Use data to describe world climates (3-S.9)

• 3.1.3 Design a solution that reduces the effects of a weather-related hazard.

  • Evaluate multiple design solutions to prevent flooding (3-V.2)
  • Identify the best design solution to prevent hurricane damage (3-V.3)

3.2 Effects of Traits on Survival

• 3.2.1 Develop and use models to describe changes that organisms go through during their life cycles.

  • Read animal life cycle diagrams (3-K.1)
  • Construct animal life cycle diagrams (3-K.2)
  • Compare stages of an animal's life cycle (3-K.3)
  • Compare different animals' life cycles (3-K.4)
  • Read and construct flowering plant life cycle diagrams (3-L.4)
  • How do flowering plants make new plants? (3-L.5)

• 3.2.2 Analyze and interpret data to identify patterns of traits that plants and animals have inherited from parents.

  • What affects traits? Use observations to support a hypothesis (3-M.2)
  • Match offspring to parents using inherited traits (3-O.1)
  • Identify inherited and acquired traits (3-O.2)
  • Read a plant pedigree chart (3-O.4)
  • Read an animal pedigree chart (3-O.5)

• 3.2.3 Construct an explanation that the environment can affect the traits of an organism.

  • What affects traits? Use observations to support a hypothesis (3-M.2)
  • Inherited and acquired traits: use evidence to support a statement (3-O.3)

• 3.2.4 Construct an explanation showing how variations in traits and behaviors can affect the ability of an individual to survive and reproduce.

• 3.2.5 Engage in argument from evidence that in a particular habitat (system) some organisms can survive well, some survive less well, and some cannot survive at all.

  • Introduction to adaptations (3-N.1)
  • Animal adaptations: beaks, mouths, and necks (3-N.2)
  • Animal adaptations: feet and limbs (3-N.3)
  • Animal adaptations: skins and body coverings (3-N.4)
  • Identify ecosystems (3-P.1)
  • Describe ecosystems (3-P.2)

• 3.2.6 Design a solution to a problem caused by a change in the environment that impacts the types of plants and animals living in that environment.

3.3 Force Affects Motion

• 3.3.1 Plan and carry out investigations that provide evidence of the effects of balanced and unbalanced forces on the motion of an object.

  • Identify pushes and pulls (3-G.1)
  • How do balanced and unbalanced forces affect motion? (3-G.2)
  • How do mass and force affect motion? (3-G.3)

• 3.3.2 Analyze and interpret data from observations and measurements of an object's motion to identify patterns in its motion that can be used to predict future motion.

• 3.3.3 Construct an explanation that the gravitational force exerted by Earth causes objects to be directed downward, toward the center of the spherical Earth.

• 3.3.4 Ask questions to plan and carry out an investigation to determine cause and effect relationships of electric or magnetic interactions between two objects not in contact with each other.

  • Introduction to static electricity and charged objects (3-H.1)
  • Identify magnets that attract or repel (3-I.1)
  • Label magnets that attract or repel (3-I.2)
  • Compare strengths of magnetic forces (3-I.3)

• 3.3.5 Design a solution to a problem in which a device functions by using scientific ideas about magnets.

  • Solve problems using magnets (3-V.1)