Welcome to Ms. Howard's Third Grade Science/Social Studies Class!
This will be a great school year! Here's an overview of what will be taught this year!
Third grade science will be focusing on hands-on inquiry and real-world phenomena across physical, life, and earth sciences. Instruction builds foundational analytical skills through active investigations rather than rote memorization.
Key Concepts for Science:
- Balanced and unbalanced forces: Testing how pushes, pulls, and changes in mass alter an object's motion.
- Patterns in motion: Using observations to predict future movement.
- Electric and magnetic forces: Exploring static electricity and how magnets attract or repel without touching, leading to simple design challenges.
- Traits and environment: Sorting inherited versus acquired traits, and how organisms survive well, less well, or fail to survive in specific habitats.
- Fossils and ancient environments: Analyzing fossil data to interpret what organisms and habitats looked like long ago.
- Ecosystem dynamics: Studying how organisms interact within their natural surroundings
- Weather patterns and climates: Recording data to describe typical weather conditions expected during a particular season.
- Weather-related hazards: Evaluating design solutions to reduce the impact of severe weather hazards like floods or strong winds.
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Third Grade Social Studies will focus on the United States history from its founding to the digital age, teaching students how to analyze primary sources, understand national geography and government, and trace the country's growth.
Key Concepts for Social Studies:
The Founding of the United States: Reading excerpts from founding documents, studying presidential speeches, and exploring national symbols and foundational government.
A Growing Nation: Tracking westward expansion, meeting early explorers like Lewis, Clark, and Sacagawea, and looking at how the nation's map changed.
A Nation of Industry and Innovation: Learning about urbanization, industrial progress, and key inventors such as Thomas Edison, Henry Ford, Alexander Graham Bell, and the Wright Brothers.
Reform Movements: Studying major social movements like abolitionism, women’s suffrage, and the civil rights movement, alongside historical reformers like Susan B. Anthony, Frederick Douglass, and Sojourner Truth.
Toward a More Perfect Union: Examining how the country continues to adapt and change into the modern digital age.
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Below you will find the CLASSROOM RULES and CONSEQUENCES
CLASSROOM RULES
1.) Always do your best!
2.) Listen carefully
3.) Follow directions.
4.) Raise your hand to speak.
5.) Treat others with respect.
6.) Make good decisions.
7.) Learn from your mistakes.
CONSEQUENCES
1.) Non Verbal Warning
2.) Verbal Warning
3.) Contact parent on Class Dojo
4.) Minor Infraction
5.) Parent Contact
6.) Parent Conference
7.) Written Referral
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BE SURE TO CHECK WEEK AT A GLANCE FREQUENTLY on Google Classroom.