Third Grade Science
Instructor: Barb Sigmund-Jones
Students in third grade experience science through engaging activities, experiments, and investigations. The big question in third grade is: How do communities change over time? In Science, students explore the world’s major communities, biomes. Biomes have changed and moved many times during the history of life on Earth. Students examine how human activities have drastically altered nature’s communities.
Student biologists develop a deeper understanding of the plant and animal kingdoms. Third graders test their skills as botanists as they plant and care for flowers and vegetables in their class garden plot. Students learn about classification by categorizing animals in different ways. They study animal eating habits and categorize according to carnivores, herbivores, omnivores and detrivores(decomposers). Third graders also categorize vertebrates and invertebrates and learn the characteristics of some of the broad categories of animals. Students focus their study on decomposers, including worms, ants and various fungi, and keep a compost bin and worm bin to study decomposers and decomposition more closely. Inquiry and active learning is an important part of science at this level. Individuals come to enjoy science as a process of learning about the world.
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