3.FI: Forces and Interactions

3-PS2-1: Plan and conduct an investigation to provide evidence of the effects of balanced and unbalanced forces on the motion of an object.

Charge Launcher

3-PS2-2: Make observations and/or measurements of an object's motion to provide evidence that a pattern can be used to predict future motion.

Measuring Motion
Pendulum Clock

3-PS2-3: Ask questions to determine cause and effect relationships of electric or magnetic interactions between two objects not in contact with each other.

Charge Launcher
Magnetism

3.IRE: Interdependent Relationships in Ecosystems

3-LS2-1: Construct an argument that some animals form groups that help members survive.

Honeybee Hive

3-LS4-1: Analyze and interpret data from fossils to provide evidence of the organisms and the environments in which they lived long ago.

Building Pangaea

3-LS4-3: Construct an argument with evidence that in a particular habitat some organisms can survive well, some survive less well, and some cannot survive at all.

Comparing Climates (Customary)
Comparing Climates (Metric)
Pond Ecosystem

3.IVT: Inheritance and Variation of Traits: Life Cycles and Traits

3-LS1-1: Develop models to describe that organisms have unique and diverse life cycles but all have in common birth, growth, reproduction, and death.

Flower Pollination
Honeybee Hive

3-LS3-1: Analyze and interpret data to provide evidence that plants and animals have traits inherited from parents and that variation of these traits exists in a group of similar organisms.

Inheritance

3-LS3-2: Use evidence to support the explanation that traits can be influenced by the environment.

Effect of Environment on New Life Form
Growing Plants
Inheritance
Measuring Trees

3-LS4-2: Use evidence to construct an explanation for how the variations in characteristics among individuals of the same species may provide advantages in surviving, finding mates, and reproducing.

Natural Selection

3.WC: Weather and Climate

3-ESS2-1: Represent data in tables and graphical displays to describe typical weather conditions expected during a particular season.

Comparing Climates (Customary)
Comparing Climates (Metric)
Observing Weather (Customary)
Observing Weather (Metric)

3-ESS2-2: Obtain and combine information to describe climates in different regions of the world.

Comparing Climates (Customary)
Comparing Climates (Metric)
Observing Weather (Customary)
Observing Weather (Metric)

Correlation last revised: 9/15/2020

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