SME
Grade 3 Science
Life Science
Life cycles of organisms
Main lesson
From egg to frog
Use this for a frog’s life cycle: the stages in order, and the days.
Eggs or born alive?
Use this to sort animals: hatched from an egg, or born alive?
A bean plant’s life cycle
Use this to put a bean plant’s stages in order.
Change shape or grow bigger?
Use this to sort animals by how they grow.
Inheritance and traits
Environments, survival and fossils
Main lesson
Which fossil is older?
Use this for “Which fossil is older?” from the rock layers.
Which birds survived the dry year?
Use this for “27 big-beaked and 8 small-beaked birds survived the dry year. How many more big-beaked birds survived?”
Who lives well in the desert?
Use this to sort how well each lives in the desert.
Hide or stay warm?
Use this to sort how an animal’s color, fur, fat or feathers help it survive where it lives.