Our 3rd Grade Science Program features instruction and investigations dedicated to building scientific literacy, created by the FOSS Elementary Science program.

3rd grade scientists will participate in hands-on investigations, class discussions and readings, and individual recording and note-taking.  Using consistent classroom practices and procedures, our objective is to build:

•  Familiarity with the natural world, its diversity, and its interdependence.

• Understanding the disciplinary core ideas and the cross-cutting concepts of science, such as patterns; cause and effect; scale, proportion, and quantity; systems and system models; energy and matter—flows, cycles, and conservation; structure and function; and stability and change.

• Knowing that science and engineering, technology, and mathematics are interdependent human enterprises and, as such, have implied strengths and limitations.

• Ability to reason scientifically.

• Using scientific knowledge, as well as scientific and engineering practices for personal and social purposes.

Our Units include: 

• What does being a Scientist or an Engineer mean?

• Coding

• Structures of Life (Caring for crayfish)

• Motion & Matter (Designing carts)

• Water & Climate