Mrs. Aiello's Class

Check out our lesson plans below! This "living document" will update as the weeks go on. This is a great way to see what's happening if you're absent or, as a guardian, if you'd like to follow along from home!

3rd Grade STEM Plans 2025 - 2026

This year in third-grade STEM, we will hopefully cover these topics (time-dependent):

Patterns
- Identify and explore mathematical relationships as patterns
- Approach math as a form of pattern-seeking
- Appreciate the beauty and value in patterns
- Extend patterns to explore them more fully
- Illustrate patterns visually
- Generalize about specific patterns
- Make and explore conjectures about patterns
- Develop a proof to support a pattern
- Solve problems involving patterns
Communication
- Project Sphinx - in this interactive unit, students will learn how to:
  - Pay attention to details
  - Solve problems using all four operations
  - Learn how to represent all four operations using bar diagrams
  - Explain our thinking about problems WITHOUT using numbers
  - Communicate our thinking clearly
Division and multiplication
- Conceptually understand what division means and the different types of division
- Solve real-world problems using division
- Represent our division thinking in many forms
Electricity and Energy
- Apply the terms insulators, conductors, open and closed in describing electrical circuits.
- Use the symbols for circuit diagrams.
- Create and diagram many functioning circuits with varying degrees of difficulty.
- Use tools to help meet these goals.
- Persevere when challenged.
- Communicate their thinking clearly through oral and written communication, including data collection, observations and explanations
- Ask questions about electricity and energy and try to answer them.
- Use creative thinking skills and apply learning from the unit to develop new ideas.
- Design and perform investigations.
- Explain the importance of electricity and energy in our lives
Hands-On Equations Level 1
- define and use the terms algebra, operations, variable and algebraic thinking.
- use the intuitive properties of equations to solve.
- understand the subtraction property of equality.
- understand and utilize the distributive property.
- connect algebraic equations to real-life situations.
- uncover and address misconceptions concerning the meaning of variables in equations.
- write and solve equations within context using paper and pencil notations to transition from concrete to more abstract methods.

We will also practice and assess our problem-solving strategies using CML (Continental Mathematics League).

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