Third Grade

 STEM = Science, Technology, Engineering, Math

2017-2018

Science

• Hands –on experiences growing plants

• Discuss how plants and animals make or adjust to changes in their environment

• Planet Project includes researching the planet using multiple resources, a report and poster

• Talk about and experiment with shadows

• Chart the phases of the moon

• Discuss how pollution causes changes in how wildlife lives

• Investigate and dissect owl pellets

• Forms of matter

• Experiment with solids, liquids and gases

• Demonstrate understanding of concepts by physical representation, illustration and written formats

• Participate in the Buchanan Science Fair

• Foss Kits: Physical Science “Matter and Energy”; Life Science “Structures of Life”; Earth Science “Sun, Moon and Stars”

Technology

• Research a topic online using Google and Yahoo search engines

• Work through a Web Quest packet in science, social studies, literature and art

• Use Word to create a project

• Write a bibliography using proper computer citing

Engineering

• Build with Legos

• Design and build a home with furniture in it

• Create a marble coaster

• Create a famous American person

Art

• Describe rhythm and movement in works of art, in the environment

• Describe how artists use tints and shades in painting

• Identify and describe how foreground, middle ground and background are used to create space

• Compare and contrast two works of art: tools, media, line, color, shape/form, texture, space, value

• Compare and describe artwork with a similar theme created at different times

• Create an artwork that shows space, everyday scenes

• Distinguish between representational, abstract and nonrepresentational art

• Create a clay sculpture

• Identify and describe art from different parts of the world

• Write about art from a student’s cultural background

• Describe how artists (architects, book illustrators, muralists) affect people’s lives

Math

• Learn multiplication and division times tables to mastery

• Build geometric figures

• Act out rounding numbers

• Role playing to solve problems

• Advanced multiplication and division (multi digit multiplication and long division)

• Place value to 10,000’s

• Multi-step problems in addition, subtraction, multiplication, division

• In depth knowledge of polygons: perimeter, area, volume

• Simplifying fractions

• Algebraic expressions

Project Based Learning

• Biography of an Important American

• Build a person

• Research and make a model of a planet