Sonoran Science Academy-BROADWAY Curriculum Map 2009-2010
GRADE: Third   SUBJECT: Science
TEACHER: Nicole Jahan *Strands 1, 2, 3 of AZ State Standards are to be taught and embedded into Strands 4, 5, and 6.  We will spend the first two weeks of school learning about the inquiry process and modeling the  Scientific Method.  This will then be applied to each lab report that the students conduct throughout the school year.  Strands 2 and 3 also will be applied to each unit that we study. In addition, the students will be required to make a science experiment for the Science Fair.  The students will begin their Science Fair projects before Winter Break.  Most experimentation will take place over the break.  The final project will be due the beginning of February.
Month	Content	Skills	Assessments	AZ Standards
August & Sept	Macmillan/ McGraw-Hill       Assorted Science Books relating to each unit   Be A Scientist                       Unit 1 Lesson 1 Living Things and Their Needs                     Lesson 2 Plants and Their Parts                     Lesson 3 Animals and Their Parts             Lesson 4 Classifying Animals	Observe by using senses to learn about an object   Form a hypothesis   Make observations and test hypothesis   Classify and analyze the data gathered using a graph   Interpret the data collected in the experiment   Draw conclusions and predict the results of another experiment based on conclusions     Predict how living things and nonliving things are alike   Observe living and nonliving things   Interpret the characteristics of the 2 groups   Identify what living things are made of   Describe the needs of living things   Observe and identify the structure of plants   Hypothesize what will happen to celery in colored water   Observe and communicate the change in a celery stalk   Describe the importance of leaves, roots, stems   Identify how animals move   Describe how animals get their food, water and oxygen   Make a diagram of animals shelters     Classify animals into groups   Count and classify the animals and their different characteristics   Describe vertebrate and invertebrate Classify animals by their type   Identify amphibians, mammals and fish	Group & Class Participation   Lab Report   Textbook Questions                               Vocab Check   Study Guide   Lab Report   Participation                                       Vocab Check   Study Guide   Shelter Diagrams   Participation   Lab Reports   Chapter Test	Science Standards   Strand 1                                     S4 C1 PO1 S4 C3 PO1                         S4 C1 PO2 S4 C2 PO1, 2, 5
October	Chapter 2 Lesson 1 Plant life cycles                       Lesson 2 Animal Life Cycles                   Lesson 3 From Parents to Young	Observe, record and communicate the changes in plants   Interpret the needs of plants   Describe how plants grow   Identify how plants make seeds and how they travel   Compare the life cycles of various plants     Identify at least 3 animal life cycles   Diagram the life cycle of a butterfly   Discuss how reptiles, fish and birds change as they grow   Chart the life cycle of a mammal     Graph the physical traits of class members   Identify and describe inherited traits, heredity, and learned traits	Vocab  Check   Study Guide   Lab Report   Participation               Vocab  Check   Study Guide   Lab Report/Diagram   Participation   Chapter Test	S4 C2 PO 1, 2 S4 C3 PO3                         S4 C2 PO2
Nov & Dec	Unit B Ecosystems Chapter 3 Lesson 1 Food Chains and Food Webs                     Lesson 2 Types of Ecosystems               Lesson 3 Adaptations                 Chapter 4 Lesson 1 &2 Living Things Change Their Environments   Changes Affect Living Things                               Lesson 3 Living Things of the Past	Identify the living and nonliving components of an ecosystem   Classify animals by the ecosystems in which they live   Examine different food chains and identify the producer, consumer, and decomposer of each   Connect food chains to appropriate food webs     Describe the different elements of an ecosystem   Identify 4 different types of ecosystems   Predict and observe the effect of environmental factors on an ecosystem       Hypothesize, observe and record the differences a layer of vegetable fat plays in temperature change   Identify ways plants and animals adapt in their environments (camouflage, mimicry, etc.)       Observe and describe ways environments change due to living things   Identify resources living things obtain   Categorize ways people change and help the environment   Describe examples of how organisms respond to change   Discuss ways changes might force an animal to move to another place   Identify causes of an organism becoming endangered   Detail how plants and animals cause change in their environment specifically prairie dogs   Define and describe a fossil   Conclude why certain things become extinct   Predict what animals might become extinct in the future   Describe how we learn about things that lived long ago	Vocab  Check   Study Guide   Lab Report/Diagram   Participation               Vocab  Check   Study Guide   Lab Report on water temp.    Participation   Chapter Test                     Vocab  Check   Study Guide   Lab Report   Participation                             Vocab  Check   Study Guide   Lab Report/Model of Fossils   Participation   Chapter Test	S4 C3 PO1, 2, 4                           S4 C3 PO 5                   S4 C4 PO 1, 2                 S4 C4 PO1, 2 S4 C3 PO 4                                         S4 C4 PO3
January	Unit C Chapter 5 Lesson 1, 2, 3 Earth's Features   Sudden Changes to Earth   Weathering and Erosion                     Chapter 6 Lesson 1 &2 Minerals and Rocks   Soil                         Lesson 4 & 5 Fossils and Fuels	Describe the earth's land and water features   Diagram the earth's layers   Observe our states features   Model what happens when land suddenly moves   Describe the effects of earthquakes and volcanoes on the Earth   Explain weathering and how people cause it   Identify the changes to the Earth's surface due to erosion     Classify rocks by color and texture   Define the terms minerals and rocks   Describe how igneous, sedimentary, metaphoric rocks are formed   Apply how we use minerals and rocks in everyday life   Identify the different types of soil and describe how it is formed   Define how soils are different       Model how things of the past become fossils	Vocab  Check   Study Guide   Lab Report/Model   Participation   Chapter Test                       Vocab  Check   Study Guide   Lab Report/Model   Participation                     Vocab  Check	S6 C1 PO1                                       S6 C1 PO 2, 3                               S6 C1 PO 4, 5, 6
Feb & March	Air and Water Resources                           Unit D Weather and Space Chapter 7 Changes in Weather                                                     Chapter 8 Planets, Moons and Stars                                                         Unit E Matter	Describe how fossils are formed   Communicate how fossils are a record of past life forms   Define fossil fuels and describe how humans use this resource   Identify the earth's resources   Analyze the effect humans have on the resources and acknowledge ways to conserve those resources     Measure the air temperature and define what it means   Describe atmosphere and weather and apply it to the weather outside   Describe the different types of weather and hypothesize where and when these types of weather might take place   Identify three types of clouds   Discuss how clouds are formed and make a model of a cloud   Diagram the water cycle   Discuss severe weather and name at least 3 forms of it   Define climate and read a diagram to analyze where the suns rays hit the earth   Describe factors that affect climate   Name the seasons and describe why places are hotter and colder than other places     Depict using a model how Earth rotates using a pencil to represent Earth's axis   Using the diagram determine why there are seasons   Describe what the sun is like   Observe the shape of the moon in the sky and the moon's different phases   Describe what the surface of the moon is like and make a personal sketch   Model how the position of the planets change   Define the solar system and the planets in our solar system   Classify the inner and outer planets   Discuss how we can view planets and different jobs involved with this subject   Define stars and constellations and describe ways that we can view the sky       Observe different objects use descriptive words to classify   Properly define matter, volume, mass   Classify different properties of matter	Vocab  Check   Study Guide   Lab Report/Model   Participation   Chapter Test                   Vocab  Check   Study Guide   Lab Report/Model   Participation   Chapter Test                                           Vocab  Check   Study Guide   Lab Report/Model   Participation   Chapter Test                                             Vocab  Check   Study Guide   Lab Report/Model	S6 C1 PO 4, 5, 6                                     S6 C3                                                         S6 C 2                                                             S5 C1
April & May	Unit F Chapter 11 Forces and Motion                                       Chapter 12 Lesson 1-3 Energy                                                   Lesson 4 Electricity