Resources and Links for Content Focus Group Webinar One
(View Complete Item Description)This is a resource list for the Content Focus Group Webinar One.
Material Type: Activity/Lab
All resources in NC Third Grade Educators
Forces of Flight
(View Complete Item Description)Through this lesson, students learn about the four forces of flight: lift, thrust, drag, and weight. They evaluate the role design plays on aerodynamics and the distance a paper airplane travels.
Material Type: Lesson Plan
Science Experiments - Great Ice Cube Race
(View Complete Item Description)In this activity, students test the rate that different shapes of ice cubes melt.
Material Type: Lesson Plan
Remix
3rd Grade Soil Unit
(View Complete Item Description)This resource is a multiday 3rd grade unit on Soil and Plants.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Lesson, Vocabulary
Activity 2A: The Skeleton
(View Complete Item Description)In this activity, students are presented with a handout depicting a disarticulated skeleton and attempt to reassemble the skeleton.
Material Type: Activity/Lab
3.RL.2 Determining Key Details of a Myth
(View Complete Item Description)This resource can be used through Google Slides or Peardeck. The Mini-Lesson will cover the following “I Can” Statement.I can determine the key details in a myth.
Material Type: Formative Assessment
Elasped Time Matching Game
(View Complete Item Description)For this interactive, students match the elasped time with the correct time period.
Material Type: Interactive
100 Number Chart
(View Complete Item Description)For this interactive, students place numbers on the correct spot of the 100 chart. There are two levels of difficulty. Beginner-students are given one line of the 100 chart with two missing numbers at a time & advanced-students are shown the entire 100 chart with twenty missing numbers. Students receive a funny surprise at the end of the activity.
Material Type: Interactive
3.OA.8 Two-Step Word Problems
(View Complete Item Description)This resource can be used through Google Slides or Peardeck. It can be used to guide a mini-lesson, or as independent practice for students.
Material Type: Formative Assessment
3.OA.9 Determining Rules in Number Patterns (mini-lesson)
(View Complete Item Description)This resource can be used through Google Slides or Peardeck. The Mini-Lesson will cover the following “I Can” Statement.I can determine rules in number patterns.
Material Type: Formative Assessment
How the Body Works: Muscular System
(View Complete Item Description)This brief video describes the major components and functions of the muscular system.
Material Type: Presentation
Using Force and Motion
(View Complete Item Description)In this lesson, small groups of students demonstrate how forces cause changes in the speed or direction of objects by creating a simple machine to move a bottle of water. Students use rope, a yardstick, and a shoebox to create the machine and are given 30 minutes to come up with as many variations as possible.
Material Type: Lesson Plan
Book Finishers Challenge
(View Complete Item Description)This resource uses google slides to allow students to set a quarterly reading goal, choose from a variety of “book finisher activities,” and make a slide for each book. Students complete an activity from the choice board, which is aligned to 3rd grade R.L. and R.I. standards, and then complete the activity on a google slide.
Material Type: Formative Assessment
Diving Deeper With Characters
(View Complete Item Description)In this lesson, students watch as the teacher models using details to describe a character in an Arnold Lobel fable. Then students work to use details to describe a character in another fable.
Material Type: Lesson Plan
Multiplication ~ Equal Groups
(View Complete Item Description)This is a video resource to help teachers using a flip classroom, hybrid learning, or remote learning to introduce multiplication as equal groups.
Material Type: Lesson
Word Problems~ When math action words are not enough
(View Complete Item Description)This resource is a great introduction to solving word problems that do not have direct math action words that would give you a clue on what operation to use.
Material Type: Lesson Plan
Green Is For
(View Complete Item Description)Through this mini research lesson, students will choose a plant to research and write about. Using Pink is for Blobfish by Jess Keating as a model book, students will create a class book titled 'Green is For...' with their final drafts.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Formative Assessment
Comparing Matter (Solid, Liquid, Gas Air)
(View Complete Item Description)Students will observe properties and compare water in the 3 states of liquid, solid, and gas. Utilizing a triple Venn diagram to help deepen their understanding of matter.
Material Type: Activity/Lab
Properties of Multiplication
(View Complete Item Description)Live, hybrid, or virtual learning
Material Type: Lesson
Solid, Liquid, or Gas Warm Up
(View Complete Item Description)This resource can be used as a warm-up, pre-test, or post assessment on identifying the three states of matter.
Material Type: Assessment