The Third Grade Georgia Standards of Excellence for science engage students in making observations and using information they obtained to answer questions.  Their communication skills allow them to record findings, analyze data, and recognize the importance of keeping records of observations without making alterations.  They observe, construct, and measure objects using ordinary hand tools.  Third graders observe things with many parts and describe the ways in which the parts influence or interact with one another.

Third graders represent objects in the real world with geometric figures, number sequences, graphs, diagrams, maps, and stories.  The students will use this information to explain physical attributes of rocks and soils, understand how fossils provide evidence of organisms that lived long ago, describe ways in which heat energy is transferred and measured, identify features of plants and animals within the geographical regions of Georgia, and recognize the effects of pollution on the environment.

Learning Targets and success criteria have been added to the units of study.

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