September 30, 2021

For the next 7 weeks our 3rd grade students will be studying a unit called; Balancing Forces. Students will immerse themselves in a real world problem and work to find a solution to that problem.

In the Balancing Forces unit, students explore forces that are acting on and around them every day, often unseen and misunderstood. (Even adults can find themselves perplexed or battling long-held misconceptions if asked to explain unseen forces, such as gravity and magnetic force!) Since these concepts are abstract and global in nature, it requires a great deal of firsthand exploration and sense-making to help students ground their understanding and integrate their new knowledge. Spending an entire 20-lesson unit (plus a pre-unit-assessment lesson and an end-of-unit-assessment lesson) to understand how a floating train works provides students with the necessary experiences, processing time, and extra supports to truly understand a phenomenon that requires a grasp of an array of foundational concepts in the area of force and motion. Our approach in this unit provides just this type of necessary support. Along with planning and conducting firsthand investigations, students read informational text, find patterns in data, and show their ideas with models—both physical models and diagrams. They have the opportunity for plenty of student-to-student discussions as they grapple with coming to understand some challenging physical science concepts.

Welcome Back to School!

I'm very excited to see all of you during science class this week. Please make sure you come ready to learn at 11:30AM sharp! See you then!

Thursday 11:30 Grades 3 & 4 https://k12-bostonpublicschools.zoom.us/j/89436109224

Thursday 12:00 Mr. Kaiser's class https://k12-bostonpublicschools.zoom.us/j/89436109224

Assignment #12 Week of June 15th

Please use this week to make up any missed assignments. If you are completely caught up with assignments there is a bonus activity in the google document for you to do in which you will engineer and design your final paper airplane!

Assignment #11 Week of June 8th

Paper Airplane Design Challenge: Part 2

FQ:What makes a successful paper airplane design?

Students will be able to gather data and information in order to build a successful paper airplane.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ZI75FEGhupu-lVljjBjnim812z5T8pf8EeTwR1yuWOA/edit?usp=sharing

3-PS2-1. Provide evidence to explain the effect of multiple forces, including friction, on an object. Include balanced forces that do not change the motion of the object and unbalanced forces that do change the motion of the object.

Assignment #10 Week of June 1st

Paper Airplane Design Challenge

FQ:What makes a successful paper airplane design?

Students will be able to gather data and information in order to build a successful paper airplane.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Uarn3iVu0NiClzt82J4MxHMO4dS7srw_Mz4h0YxAOQc/edit?usp=sharing

3-PS2-1. Provide evidence to explain the effect of multiple forces, including friction, on an object. Include balanced forces that do not change the motion of the object and unbalanced forces that do change the motion of the object.

Assignment #9

Week of May 25, 2020

Natural Disasters

FQ: How can you keep a house from blowing away in a windstorm?

Students will be able to summarize effects of natural disasters.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1LmnAM-2UVP29iZE3l8YXL-OjOSv4iQmLeFSkw-XuCZU/edit?usp=sharing

3-ESS2-2. Obtain and summarize information about the climate of different regions of the world to

illustrate that typical weather conditions over a year vary by region.

Assignment #8 Week of May 18th, 2020

Climate

FQ: Why are some places always hot?

Students will be able to summarize the 5 major climates.

3-ESS2-2. Obtain and summarize information about the climate of different regions of the world to

illustrate that typical weather conditions over a year vary by region.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1j-V79ebWOpH_3uG4f2oyN67smA-Ziy_kZOtm-Q_yO0U/edit?usp=sharing

Assignment # 7 Week of May 11, 2020

Stormy Skies

FQ: How can we predict when it is going to storm?

Students will be able to identify cloud types to infer if a storm is going to come to Boston.

3-ESS2-2. Obtain and summarize information about the climate of different regions of the world to

illustrate that typical weather conditions over a year vary by region.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1GrFQVJaQYX4XjQgJTQh5TeRwo8VIlzbnnEGv2GQkzaw/edit?usp=sharing