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2016.17 Third Grade Science, Ongoing Expectations
Big Ideas/Key Concepts:
 Understandings about scientific inquiry and the ability to conduct inquiry are essential for living in the 21 st century.
 Society benefits when engineers apply scientific discoveries to design materials and processes that develop into enabling
technologies.
Ongoing Expectations
Note: Do not teach a separate unit at year’s beginning. Embed inquiry and tech/engineering throughout all 4 quarters within content
where appropriate.
Embedded Inquiry
SPI 0307.Inq.1 Select an investigation that could be used to answer a specific question.
3. WCE.SC.1: Maintain a science notebook that includes: observations, data, diagrams and explanations to analyze and communicate
scientific findings (observation, data, diagrams, explanations, conclusions and reflections).
Embedded Technology & Engineering
SPI 0307.T/E.1 Select a tool, technology, or invention that was used to solve a human problem.
SPI 0307.T/E.2 Recognize the connection between a scientific advance and the development of a new tool or technology.
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2016.17 Third Grade Science, Quarter 1
Big Ideas/Key Concepts:
 Major geologic events that occur over eons or brief moments in time continually shape and reshape the surface of the Earth, resulting in
continuous global change.
Standards
Student Friendly “I Can” Statements
Earth’s Features
Earth’s Features
SPI 0307.7.1 Classify landforms and bodies of water according to their
geological features and identify them on a map.
Correlates with SS:
3.2 Interpret maps and globes using common terms. 3.4 Examine major
physical and political features on globes and maps.
Correlates with Fine Arts/Art:
3.WCE.ART.2 re: Diagrams, maps or representations
I can use information and illustrations to identify the earth’s major
landforms and water bodies (geological feature, landforms, canyon, valley,
plateau, mountain, volcano, island, peninsula, bay, lake, river, and ocean).
3. WCE.SC.2: Recognize that geological features comprise the Earth’s
crust, and that the Earth has 3 main layers: crust, mantle, and core.
I can recognize that Earth has layers, and that geological features are
identified with the Earth’s crust. (crust, mantle, core)
Rocks and Minerals
Rocks and Minerals
SPI 0307.7.2 Describe how rocks can be classified according to their
physical characteristics.
Correlates with Fine Arts/Art:
3.ART.6.2: re: Shared vocabulary of art and rocks (I Can statement)
I can analyze the physical characteristics/properties of different kinds of
rocks (luster, magnetism, metallic, non-metallic, streak (color), and
hardness).
3. WCE.SC.3: Recognize that rocks are made of minerals.
I can recognize that rocks can be composed of one or more minerals.
3. WCE.SC.4: Explain properties of a mineral: natural, inorganic,
crystalline solid.
I can explain that a mineral is a natural (not made by humans), inorganic
(not made from the remains of a living organism) crystalline (crystal
structure) solid.
I can analyze and interpret maps of Earth’s mountain ranges, and the
placement of volcanoes to describe patterns of these features and their
locations.
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3. WCE.SC.5: Model the rock cycle, including the processes of:
weathering, erosion, heat and pressure.
I can explain how each rock type has been formed by weathering, erosion,
heat and pressure in a pattern called the rock cycle. (sedimentary,
metamorphic, igneous)
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