This third grade force and motion science unit is a comprehensive resource with done-for-you lesson plans to teach forces, motion, and magnets aligned to NGSS as well as many 3rd grade state science standards.<\/p>\n
Students are engaged through 23 high-interest lessons in a vividly detailed teaching Power Point with interactive slides. During each lesson students are presented with engineering connections and real-world problems that enable them to understand how forces, motion, electricity, and magnetism are used in their everyday lives. Students gain lab experience and use science process skill as they plan and carry out investigations and experiments. Lessons are followed up by science journal activities that reinforce the lesson, turn and talk partner discussion questions, and partner activity labs.<\/p>\n
Assessing each lesson is easily differentiated using the fill in the blank option or the short, written response format. A unit test concludes the unit.<\/p>\n
This resource includes detailed, scripted lesson plans, focus wall guiding questions posters and objectives cards, science center extension activities, and related lesson videos and books list all in a helpful planning binder. I\u2019ve made it easier than ever to plan and teach a highly engaging and effective science unit, stress-free!<\/p>\n
4 Literacy & Math-Based Science Centers<\/strong><\/p>\n These games and task cards are ideal to add to your literacy centers to reinforce science content as students practice these skills:<\/p>\n Lesson and Lab Topics<\/strong><\/p>\n Position and Motion<\/p>\n Measuring Motion<\/p>\n Lab: How does shape affect motion? <\/p>\n Patterns of Motion<\/p>\n Patterns Can Change<\/p>\n Lab: Predicting Patterns <\/p>\n Forces and Motion<\/p>\n Contact & Noncontact Forces<\/p>\n Chain Reactions Lab<\/p>\n Balanced and Unbalanced Forces<\/p>\n Combined Forces<\/p>\n Measuring Force<\/p>\n The Floating Train<\/p>\n Lab: How can forces hold up objects? <\/p>\n Exploring Electricity<\/p>\n Static Electricity<\/p>\n Determining the Strength of a Force<\/p>\n Lab: How can electric force levitate objects<\/p>\n Magnets and Magnetism<\/p>\n Magnetic Fields<\/p>\n Electromagnets<\/p>\n Make An Electromagnet<\/p>\n Lab: How can you measure the size of a magnetic field?<\/p>\n Lab: How can magnets sort objects by weight?<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Please see the preview for details and pictures of everything included in this comprehensive forces and motion science unit.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Additional third grade science units in this series:<\/strong><\/p>\n Force & Motion<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n Weather & Climate<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n Inherited Traits Variations & Life Cycles<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n Environments, Survival & Fossil Evidence<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n Engineering Design<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n Scientists & the Scientific Method<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Click <\/strong>HERE<\/strong><\/a> for all third grade science units.<\/strong><\/p>\n Click <\/strong>HERE<\/strong><\/a> for second grade science units.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n