Grade 3 Science Idaho standards Standards

Earth and Space Science

Life Science

Physical Science

Earth's Systems

Represent data in tables and graphical displays to describe typical weather conditions expected during a particular season.

Obtain and combine information to describe climates in different regions of the world.

Earth and Human Activity

Make a claim about the merit of a design solution that reduces the impacts of a weather-related hazard.

From Molecules to Organisms: Structures and Processes

Develop models to demonstrate that living things, although they have unique and diverse life cycles, all have birth, growth, reproduction, and death in common.

Ecosystems: Interactions, Energy, and Dynamics

Construct an argument that some animals form groups that help members survive.

Heredity: Inheritance and Variation of Traits

Analyze and interpret data to provide evidence that plants and animals have traits inherited from parents and that variation of these traits exists in a group of similar organisms.

Use evidence to support the explanation that traits can be influenced by the environment.

Construct an argument with evidence that in a particular habitat some organisms can survive well, some survive less well, and some cannot survive at all.

Motion and Stability: Forces and Interactions

Plan and conduct an investigation to provide evidence of the effects of balanced and unbalanced forces on the motion of an object.

Make observations and/or measurements of an object's motion to provide evidence that a pattern can be used to predict future motion.

Ask questions to determine cause and effect relationships of static electricity or magnetic interactions between two objects not in contact with each other.

Define a problem that can be solved by applying scientific ideas about magnets.