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Grade 3           

Unit A: Life Science

Chapter Connection: Ring Around the Tree
Students learn how scientists read tree rings. Students visit Web sites that explain how scientists get information by studying tree rings. More info

Chapter Connection: Traveling Seeds
Students learn that seeds are carried to new locations by wind, water, and animals. Students visit Web sites that explain how different types of seeds are spread. More info

Chapter Connection: Arachnids
Students learn about the characteristics of arachnids. Students visit Web sites to learn about spiders and scorpions. Then they complete a Venn diagram to compare and contrast the traits of these two kinds of arachnids. More info

Chapter Connection: Father Knows Best
Students visit Web sites to learn about the life cycle of the sea horse. More info

Chapter Connection: Home, Sweet Home
Students visit Web sites to learn about termite mounds. Then they complete a crossword puzzle with facts about termites and their homes. More info

Chapter Connection: Alien Invasion
Students learn about non-native species that invade new habitats. Students visit Web sites to learn about the introduction of kudzu from Asia and how it has affected ecosystems in the United States. More info

Chapter Connection: Vanishing Frogs
Students learn that scientists study frogs as indicators of the health of an ecosystem. Students visit Web sites to learn how frogs are affected by changes in environmental conditions. More info

Chapter Connection: Wild Critters
Students visit Web sites to learn why it is important not to feed wild animals. They create a poster to discourage people from feeding wild animals. More info

Writing for Science: Pick a Plant
Students report how the plant of their choice uses roots, stems and leaves to survive. More info

Writing for Science: But I've Just Got to Have It!
Students write a letter asking for a pet and describe the care the pet will need to survive. More info

Writing for Science: Running with the Pack
Students write a fable to explain how a group of animals got its collective name. More info

Writing for Science: All About Food
Students tell the origin of the components of one food. Then they describe how the food looks, smells, tastes and feels. More info

National Lab: Dinner Bell: Food Chain Lab
Children decide if the foods they eat are producers or consumers. Then they classify foods from their diets into food groups of the Food Guide Pyramid. More info

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Unit B: Physical Science

Chapter Connection: Rainy Day
Students learn about how water changes state in the atmosphere and becomes different forms of precipitation. More info

Chapter Connection: Pop! Goes the Air Bag
Students learn how a chemical change causes air bags found in automobiles to inflate. Students visit Web sites that show an air bag inflating, and they discover the personal-safety advantages and disadvantages of air bags. More info

Chapter Connection: Take Flight!
Students learn about the four forces involved in airplane flight. Students visit Web sites that illustrate how airplanes overcome the forces of gravity and drag in order to fly. More info

Chapter Connection: Bird Tools
Students learn that the beaks of birds function as simple machines. Students visit Web sites that illustrate the different beaks and how a beak's shape can indicate a bird's diet. More info

Chapter Connection: Sun Racers
Students visit Web sites to learn about solar cars and solar bicycles. More info

Chapter Connection: Shocking!
Students learn about electric charges. Students visit Web sites to read about experiments with balloons and static electricity. More info

Chapter Connection: Talking with the Animals
Students learn how animals communicate using sound. Students visit Web sites to hear examples of alligator communication. Students think of ways they could reproduce these sounds using common objects. More info

Chapter Connection: Hear, Dog!
Students visit Web sites and learn how some dogs are trained to help people with hearing impairments. More info

Writing for Science: Things Have Changed
Students describe the changes that take place if a watercolor drawing is left out in the rain. More info

Writing for Science: Light as a Feather—or Are You?
Students write a narrative of a day in an astronaut's life in space. More info

Writing for Science: Mirror, Mirror
Students write a story about someone who sees an unusual reflection of himself in a reflective object. More info

Writing for Science: What's That Sound?
Students take a walk and record and describe sounds they hear. More info

National Lab: Hot Stuff: Measuring Heat Lab
Children measure the temperature of objects on a playground. More info

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Unit C: Earth Science

Chapter Connection: All Shook Up
Students learn that earthquakes commonly occur at plate boundaries and are caused by plate movement. Students visit Web sites that show where strong and recent earthquakes have occurred. More info

Chapter Connection: Grains of Sand
Students learn how wind shapes sand dunes. Students visit Web sites to learn about sand dunes. More info

Chapter Connection: Changing Leaves to Soil
Students learn that humus (decayed plant material) supplies nutrients to soil. Students visit Web sites that tell how to build a compost bin, how to use compost, and why composting is helpful. More info

Chapter Connection: Down the Drain
Students learn how to conserve water. Students visit Web sites that give ideas about water conservation. More info

Chapter Connection: What's for Dinner?
Students learn about foods eaten by astronauts in space. Students visit Web sites that tell about the development of different food products eaten by astronauts in space. More info

Chapter Connection: We're Listening
Students learn about the radio telescope at the Arecibo Observatory. Students visit Web sites to learn about the Arecibo Observatory. More info

Chapter Connection: Raindrops
Students learn about the shapes of small and large raindrops and why raindrops have a maximum size. Students visit Web sites that describe the shapes and sizes of raindrops. More info

Chapter Connection: Flash, Rumble
Students learn why thunder is associated with lightning. Students visit Web sites to learn how to estimate the distance they are from a lightning strike by noting the time interval between the observed flash and rumble. More info

Writing for Science: Exploring the Frontier
Students describe landforms as seen by an early American settler crossing the continents. More info

Writing for Science: Underground
Students pretend they are creatures that live underground and write about themselves and their home. More info

Writing for Science: Planetary Pilgrimage
Students imagine themselves on a spaceship traveling through the solar system and describe planets as they travel past them in space. More info

Writing for Science: Storm Watchers
Students describe what they observed and did during a thunderstorm. More info

National Lab: Hot Stuff: Measuring Heat Lab
Children measure the temperature of objects on a playground. More info

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Unit D: Human Body

Chapter Connection: The Bare Bones
Students visit Web sites to learn interesting facts about bones and the skeletal system. More info

Chapter Connection: Speedy Delivery
Students visit Web sites that describe the motion of blood through the heart and circulatory system. More info

Chapter Connection: Not So Fast!
Students visit Web sites to learn about good nutrition and to analyze the nutritional value of various fast foods. More info

Chapter Connection: Skin Deep
Students learn that the skin is one of the body's defenses against germs and disease. Students visit Web sites to learn why people who wash their hands stop the spread of disease. More info

Writing for Science: Wild Orangutan
Students write a letter to a daredevil friend to encourage him to use safety equipment. More info

Writing for Science: Shots
Students write a letter to parents to persuade them to have their children vaccinated. More info

National Lab: Dinner Bell: Food Chain Lab
Children decide if the foods they eat are producers or consumers. Then they classify foods from their diets into food groups of the Food Guide Pyramid. More info

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