Printable Workbook:

• 3rd Grade: English and Spanish

Videos:

Perimeter & Area. This Khan Academy video explains how to find the area and perimeter of a square and rectangle.

Websites:

• Picture Fraction Game - This game has your child match the fraction to the picture. Note” The game goes beyond halves, fourths, and eighths.

• Fraction Splat - This game has your child identify fractions that have equal and unequal parts.

Printable Resources:

• 3^rd Grade Perimeter Worksheet #1: English and Spanish

• 3^rd Grade Perimeter Worksheet #2: English and Spanish

• 3^rd Grade Area Worksheet #1: English and Spanish

TEXTBOOK

Activity Direction/Notes

STEMScopes:

Science Activities

Scholastic

• Science Videos

Videos:

• Animal Habitats English and Spanish

• Exploration student document English and Spanish

• Video: How do animals live in specific habitats to meet their vital needs?

Other Free Web Resources:

• Natural environments of plants and animals

• Trees as Habitats

• Jungle Jeopardy - An Ecosystem Game

• Make a Mangrove - An Ecosystem Game

• iNaturalist and Seek by iNaturalist

OFFLINE Activities- 1 per week

• Go outside with a notebook. Draw at least 2 plants and 2 animals. Write about: What does each organism need to survive? Sentence stem: "In order to survive, ______ needs..."

• During the early morning or in the evening, go outside with a notebook. Draw the appearance of the moon each night. Write down or draw out your prediction: What do you think the moon will look like tomorrow?

• Weather: Make a weather calendar for the week. What does the weather look like today? Is it hot, cold, windy, sunny? Draw a picture in the morning, afternoon and night. Write about: What kind of weather is your favorite? Why? Sentence stem: "My favorite weather is... because..."

• Work with a parent to find a recipe and follow the steps to make that recipe. At the beginning, take a picture of the ingredients, and at the end, take a picture of the prepared food.

• Write about: What did you like about cooking this recipe? How would you change it to make it better? Sentence Stem: " I liked... To make it better, I would..."

• Get a notebook. Take some magnets off your refrigerator. Go around your house. Make a list of what is magnetic and not magnetic. Write about: How were the things that responded to the magnet different from the things that did not respond to the magnet?

• Fill up a bucket or a sink with water. Grab some items around your house and put them in the water. Do they sink or float? Make a T-chart with items that sink on the left and items that float on the right.

• Write about: Think about the items' mass. What did you notice about the about items that sink? Items that float?

• Go outside. Get a collection of 3-5 rocks. Draw them in your notebook. Describe their texture, color, shape and size. Sort the rocks in order based on a trait of your choice.

• Get your notebook. Go outside and draw 3 different shadows. What time of day is it? Morning, noon and night? What direction is the shadow facing? Where is the sun in the sky? (DO NOT LOOK DIRECTLY AT THE SUN!) Write about: Why do you think shadow length changes during the day?

OFFLINE ACTIVITIES - 1 per week

• Create a journal for you to record your daily activities, thoughts, and experiences during this historical period. Include illustrations, share your feelings about what is happening, and create your own primary source document that you can refer to in the future. You should write in your journal 5-15 minutes per day.

• Ask an adult to take a daily walk with you in the neighborhood if it’s safe. As you walk, decide whether you’re going north, south, east, or west. Use the position of the sun to help. Draw a map of your route. At the end of each week, put all your maps together in a booklet. Create a title for your work.

• Watch the news with your family. Discuss what you learn with a family member.

• Create a calendar that illustrates what you write in your journal each day about staying at home during this historical time period. Illustrate (make a drawing) for three of the days this week.

• Draw a map of your house, street, or neighborhood – whichever is safest for you. Use a scale to determine the distance from one place to another and a legend to describe what’s on the map. Be sure to include an accurate compass rose.

• Create a flow chart (three boxes with arrows in between) to show how food gets to the grocery store.

• Think about what invention is needed to make you and your family’s life easier. Come up with an idea, name it, and write down what it does and how it would make everyone’s life easier.

• Talk to someone in your household and describe three people you’ve learned about this year at school – people you believe are important to remember. Then explain why.

• Look through a magazine or newspaper. Cut out pictures that show people helping their communities and making a difference. Glue the pictures on a piece of paper, if possible, and title the page “Helpers.” Then choose one person you know who helps in your community. Write a thank you letter to that person explaining why you appreciate what he or she does.

• Who is the Governor of Texas? What is he doing to help our area fight the Corona Virus and to help people who may be getting sick? Talk your answer over with someone in your household before you write in down.

• Who is the President of the United States? What is his job? What is his job during the crisis we're having as a nation? How do you think he's doing? Draw a rectangle and break it into five parts. Assign a number between 1-5 to each part. Rank how the President is doing on the scale of 1 to 5. Then color each box to the number you decided. Show this to a family member, and explain your reasoning. Then do the same thing for the Governor of Texas.

• Create your own country. Think about the type of government your country will have. Then on a piece of paper, write the name of your country at the top of the page. Then draw an arrow down and fill in the following: 1. How will your government leaders be chosen? Draw another arrow and add: 2. Will leaders have to have the "consent of the governed?" Draw another arrow and add: 3. What kind of services will your government provide to its citizens? Add another arrow: 4. How will the government pay for the services it provides? Add the last arrow. 5. How will or can the leadership change?

• Think about the different types of people we call First Responders: police, firefighters, doctors, nurses, etc. Do you know anyone who is a First Responder? If so, write them a thank you letter for what they're doing for us during this historical time.

• Create an illustrated timeline of each day you're home from school. Add an event from the news plus events you do. Draw pictures to make the timeline come alive. Create a title for your timeline.

• Ask a family member to tell you about your family's culture. Create a mural that honors your culture. A mural is a piece of artwork that contains both pictures and words.

• Watch Sesame Street on KLRU. Choose one of the characters you see in the show who demonstrate good citizenship. Make a list of the different ways they show good citizenship. Share what they did with a family member.

• Watch Arthur on KLRU. What was the main lesson learned in the episode you watched? Describe that to a household member.