THIRD GRADE  - HELPING HANDS SCIENCE
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Chapter

Required Lab in Science Lab

Materials

Storybooks or Slideshow (on http://msnucleus.org)

 

LIFE

Adaptations to Land and Water

3.1 Ocean Critters

Life Cycle –  Organisms 4A
 

Simona’s Adventures in Eritrea, Africa

Environments change

3.2 Carnivore versus herbivore

 

Murder in the Mud

 
Organisms of Long Ago     Mammoth Mary

 

EARTH

Solar System

3.3 Moon

 

10 Moon photos (original Apollo 1967 mission) How many planets?
Mugambi’s Moving Moon
Cycles and Patterns of Space 3.4 Stars and Constellations

Constellation placemats

10 Star and Constellation placemat 

Constellations

Bear and Baby

Hercules

Beep, Beep

Searching the Universe (slideshow)

 

PHYSICAL

Properties of Matter      
Chemical Changes

3.5 Elements

 

10 stations, 1 each of

Zinc, iron, aluminum, sulfur, copper, tin, nickel, carbon lead, silicon 
Rock Cycle (slideshow – beginning slides)
Forms of Energy      
Light

 

3.6 Light – Reflection an Refraction

 
8 stations of one each: 3-D mirascope, periscope, prism, small telescope, teleidoscope, mirror, biconvex lens, Minimizer Light Magic

Light Magic(slideshow)

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