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Elementary Elementary Science Grade 3

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Suggested Prerequisites

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Description

This is an intermediate course with concepts across many types of sciences, including Earth Science, Life Science, and Physical Science. Through asking questions, making predictions, making and comparing observations, making inferences, working with others to conduct investigations, explaining the results of investigations, developing models, constructing arguments, and making claims, students will learn about gravity, stars, forms of energy, motion, heat and light, properties and changes in matter, plant structures and functions, plant responses, plant and animal classification, and adaptations.

Module 1: Matter

-Physical properties of matter (size, shape, color, texture, and hardness)

-Mass, volume, and temperature of solids and liquids

-Observations made by tools

-Records of observations

Module 2: Water and Heat

-States of matter

-Changes of state in water

-Increase in temperature

-Heat energy causes

Module 3: Energy and Gravity

-Types of energy (heat, light, sound, electrical and mechanical)

-Motion and changes in motion

-Magentism

-Law of gravity

Module 4: Light

-Light travel

-Refraction and absorption of light energy

-The relationahip between light and heat

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