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Life Science
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

Main lesson
Fur colors in a litter
Use this to graph a litter’s fur colors and see the variation.
Traits the environment changes
Use this for “Two bean plants share a parent. The watered one is 32 cm, the dry one 14 cm. How much taller is it?”

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.

Animals living in groups

Main lesson
How a group helps
Use this to sort how living in a group helps.
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