Students will delve into Hans Thoma’s Wondrous Birds to discover an aerial perspective and learn to see more deeply. Using dance, English language arts, science, theatre arts, visual arts, and poetry, they will explore landforms and bodies of water from a bird’s-eye view.

Students complete an English and Language Arts project lesson focused on point of view using the zoo as a theme. The lesson includes a zoo field trip or virtual zoo field trip, class discussions, mini scrapbook point of view project, and a short presentation to the class.

In this lesson, students are introduced to a three-step strategy for peer editing which prepares them to engage in constructive peer editing of classmates’ written work on a regular basis.

Students will learn how point of view can change and in what way point of view can be used in text to influence events.

This module opens in a similar way to Module 1, with a "mystery" carousel. The Carousel protocol is a simple way to engage students with new content by getting them up moving, thinking, talking, and writing. In this lesson, students look at some "mystery" images to pique their curiosity.

This lesson is meant to engage students in exploring and working with maps. While they will not master map reading with just one lesson, they will begin to develop some background knowledge about how maps give information about a place. In addition, discussing how maps support understanding of informational text lays important groundwork for the research students will do later in this unit. Map reading needs to be reinforced during other times of the day beyond the ELA block.

In this lesson, students participate in science talks to collectively synthesize and build on each other's ideas about how freaky frogs survive.

This course was created by the Rethink Education Content Development Team. This course is aligned to the NC Standards for 3rd Grade ELA.

This resource accompanies our Rethink 3rd Grade ELA course. It includes ideas for use, ways to support exceptional children, ways to extend learning, digital resources and tools, tips for supporting English Language Learners and students with visual and hearing impairments. There are also ideas for offline learning.  

This course was created by the Rethink Education Content Development Team. This course is aligned to the NC Standards for 3rd Grade English Language Arts. 

This lesson encourages students to use common Greek and Latin affixes and roots to deconstruct and construct words. If they learn, for example, that micro means small and scope means see, they can deduce that a microscope is a device that enables an individual to see small objects. The students use the Morpheme Match-Ups handout and the Word Central website to engage in morphemic analysis of familiar and unfamiliar words. This lesson allows teachers to easily substitute their own affixes and roots for each activity.

In this lesson, students participate in science talks about the survival of bullfrogs. Science talks provide students the opportunity to collectively theorize and build on each other's ideas. These talks provide a window on student's thinking that can help teachers figure out what students really know and what their misconceptions may be.

Help students explore an important moment of environmental activism in North Carolina with Save Our Sand Dunes by Hannah Bunn West and with Ann-Cabell Baum. This complementary learning guide to the book is designed to help educators guide young readers in discovering how Carolista Baum rallied a community and advocated for local and state leaders to preserve Jockey's Ridge.

Per the ReadWriteThink website: In this collaborative inquiry unit, the real gold is the inquiry skills and content area knowledge that students develop. The class works in small groups, each focusing on one aspect of the same big topic, such as the Gold Rush. After skimming related texts, the class brainstorms people, places and things associated with the topic and develops a list of five or six main subtopics. Students then work in small groups to research one of the subtopics, practicing specific research skills as they work. Finally, students choose an activity, such as an oral report, trivia game, or newspaper, to teach what they have learned to the rest of the class. Group accountability and individual responsibility are built in to this lesson process. While this unit uses the Gold Rush as an example, any event or geographical area could be substituted.

This resource supports English language development for English language learners.These activities teach students food phrases necessary for engaging in a social conversation about their eating habits. Students complete a vocabulary match activity, true and false activities, create questions for partner discussion, and engage in dialogyues with partners about their eating habits. Students listen, spoeak, read, and write in these activiities. Teacher notes can be found at http://www.tefl.net/esl-lesson-plans/TBW_Food_Eating-Habits_TS.pdf .

This resource supports English language development for English language learners. This activity teaches students about the vocabulary and language common in discussions about friends. Students complete vocabulary matching activities, fill in the gap activities, and questions with partners. Students listen,speak, read, and write in these activities. Teacher notes can be found at http://www.tefl.net/esl-lesson-plans/worksheets-topic/Friends_TN.pdf .

This resource supports English language development for English language learners. These activities teach students the vocabulary and language necessary for discussing vacations, travel, and hotels. Students complete true and false statements and fill in the gap activities. Students create questions and engage in a conversation. Students listen, speak, read, and write in these activities. Teacher notes for these activities can be found at http://www.tefl.net/esl-lesson-plans/TBW_Holidays-HolidaysAndHotels_TS.pdf .

Students work to solve an interactive Rube Goldberg project using strategic trial and error processes. They begin at level one and increase levels as they become successful on the free website engineering.com

This teacher's curriculum guide presents strategies for engaging readers before, during, and after reading the book. It also provides extension strategies to further students’ understanding through response to writing prompts.

In this lesson from Expeditionary Learning, students will ask and answer questions about My Librarian Is a Camel by Margariet Ruurs. They will learn how to effectively participate in conversations with peers and adults. Students will engage in Think-Pair-Share and Carousel protocols to begin addressing details they see in photographs. This will help guide them as they draw details from exemplar texts. This is Lesson 1 of 11 from the unit Grade 3 Curriculum Map Unit 1, Module 1: http://engageny.org/resource/grade-3-ela-module-1-unit-1 .