Do you need a little help covering weather in your 3rd grade class?
Weather and Climate for Third Grade. Students will learn about weather patterns, make weather graphs, and weather charts. They will learn about forecasting the weather based on patterns. Students will design a solution to protect against a natural hazard like a flood or a mudslide. This resource is designed to meet the NGSS for 3rd Grade Weather and Climate.
This resource is aligned with the NGSS Disciplinary Core Ideas of Weather and Climate and Natural Hazards and Earth’s Systems. This NGSS unit is completely integrated with science, math, and English language arts.
This complete unit will save you tons of time and keep your third grade science students engaged!
If you use the suggested schedule I’ve included, this unit will cover 13 days worth of lessons!
Students will learn about weather patterns, make weather graphs, and weather charts. They will learn about forecasting the weather based on patterns. Students will design a solution to protect against a natural hazard like a flood or a mudslide.
This resource is aligned with the NGSS Disciplinary Core Ideas of Weather and Climate and Natural Hazards and Earth’s Systems. This NGSS unit is completely integrated with science, math, and English language arts.
In this weather unit, students will use graphs and charts to obtain and display data on weather and climate. Students will read theinformational text in a CLOSE reading strategy to gather more information about the topics. They will respond to text-dependent questions in the response pages and interactive notebook flaps.
Students will participate in two hands-on inquiry-based labs One of these labs students will be developing an engineering design solution to solve the problem of heavy rain and mudslides.
This is a standards-aligned unit designed to cover NGSS 3rd Grade Science Standards:
Represent data in tables and graphical displays to describe typical weather conditions expected during a particular season.
NGSS 3-ESS2-1
Obtain and combine information to describe climates in different regions of the world.
NGSS 3-ESS2-2
Make a claim about the merit of a design solution that reduces the impacts of a weather-related hazard.
NGSS 3-ESS3-1
This unit also covers Utah SEEd 3.1.1, 3.1.2, and 3.1.3.
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Used with distance learning. Used only a small portion, but can’t wait to use the whole product in the fall. We start with SEED Standards in Utah in the fall and I can’t wait to start the year with this in teaching weather and how it affects us. Thank you, very well thought out and the instructions made perfect sense.
Teresa C.
Excellent resource for teaching about weather and climate. My students liked collected data and making comparisons. Well aligned with the standards.
Elizabeth B.
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