Arts & Creative Expression · 3
3D Art Form Studio
Create a balanced composition using three-dimensional forms and space.
Activity detailsThird Grade
Build understanding with hands-on 3D activities across upper-elementary subjects.
Arts & Creative Expression · 3
Create a balanced composition using three-dimensional forms and space.
Activity detailsMathematics · 3
Multiply a one-digit number by a multiple of 10 by sliding equal groups of tens on an abacus and trading ten tens for a hundred.
Activity detailsSocial Studies · 3
Explain how community features and routes meet the needs of different residents.
Activity detailsMathematics · 3
Fluently add within 1,000 using place-value strategies.
Activity detailsLanguage Arts · 3
Break words into a root and an affix and use the affix meaning to determine the word’s meaning.
Activity detailsLanguage Arts · 3
Ensure subject-verb and pronoun-antecedent agreement across a short paragraph and use it to fix an agreement error.
Activity detailsScience · 3
Explain how working in a group helps ants gather food that is too big for one and defend their nest.
Activity detailsMathematics · 3
Measure area in square units and perimeter in linear units.
Activity detailsSocial Studies · 3
Recognize how an artifact expresses a culture, using its own evidence instead of stereotypes.
Activity detailsSocial Studies · 3
Model how scarcity forces producers to choose and give something up.
Activity detailsMathematics · 3
Measure mass in grams on a dial scale and solve a one-step problem about the grams still needed.
Activity detailsScience · 3
Predict how balanced and unbalanced pulls change whether an object starts, stops, or keeps still.
Activity detailsArts & Creative Expression · 3
Create a balanced composition using three-dimensional forms and space.
Activity detailsScience · 3
Predict and test how organisms respond when their valley changes: some thrive, some survive, some move, and some die.
Activity detailsScience · 3
Show that in a particular habitat some organisms survive well, some survive less well, and some cannot survive.
Activity detailsMathematics · 3
Read a scaled picture graph by recovering its key from a known row and using it to answer how-many and how-many-more questions.
Activity detailsScience · 3
Find the pattern in a bouncing ball’s motion and use it to predict how high future bounces will reach.
Activity detailsScience · 3
Apply a fair-test process to design a structure that solves a problem.
Activity detailsSocial Studies · 3
Use a compass rose, legend symbols, and a map scale to describe where places are.
Activity detailsLanguage Arts · 3
Make an inference about what happened from text and scene clues, citing two supporting details.
Activity detailsLanguage Arts · 3
Describe how events in an informational text are connected by cause and effect.
Activity detailsLanguage Arts · 3
Connect each cause in an informational text to its effect and predict what would change if a cause had not happened.
Activity detailsScience · 3
Predict what happens to organisms when their environment changes: some survive, some move, some die.
Activity detailsLanguage Arts · 3
Describe characters using actions, dialogue, and motivations.
Activity detailsScience · 3
Compare weather patterns and climates across regions.
Activity detailsMathematics · 3
Tell and write time to the nearest minute using an analog clock and a minute number line.
Activity detailsLanguage Arts · 3
Use a sentence clue and a substitution test to determine the meaning of an unknown word.
Activity detailsTechnology & Computer Basics · 3
Create and debug ordered algorithms with events and conditionals.
Activity detailsSocial Studies · 3
Explain how community features meet people’s needs.
Activity detailsLanguage Arts · 3
Compare two texts, characters, settings, or events using evidence.
Activity detailsTechnology & Computer Basics · 3
Create strong passwords, protect personal information, and know whom to share login details with.
Activity detailsLanguage Arts · 3
Determine word meaning from sentence and paragraph context.
Activity detailsTechnology & Computer Basics · 3
Use repeat loops and debug a program whose loop count or steps are wrong.
Activity detailsHealth & Physical Education · 3
Practice recognizing emotions and resolving peer conflicts.
Activity detailsMathematics · 3
Subtract within 1,000 by counting up from the smaller number in jumps of ones, tens, and hundreds.
Activity detailsMathematics · 3
Make change by counting up from a price to the amount paid with coins and bills.
Activity detailsMathematics · 3
Measure lengths to the nearest quarter inch and correct a line plot so it shows the measurement data.
Activity detailsSocial Studies · 3
Recognize how traditions, artifacts, and stories express culture.
Activity detailsArts & Creative Expression · 3
Choose levels and pathways in a movement sequence to express an idea.
Activity detailsMathematics · 3
Create and interpret scaled picture graphs and bar graphs.
Activity detailsSocial Studies · 3
Sequence events and distinguish past, present, change, and continuity.
Activity detailsLanguage Arts · 3
Use commas and quotation marks to punctuate dialogue in narrative writing.
Activity detailsTechnology & Computer Basics · 3
Identify useful, safe, and relevant digital information.
Activity detailsMathematics · 3
Interpret quotients as fair shares and equal-size groups.
Activity detailsMathematics · 3
Find the unknown factor or quotient in a multiplication or division equation by fitting a known total into rows of equal size.
Activity detailsMathematics · 3
Determine elapsed time to the nearest minute in practical situations.
Activity detailsHealth & Physical Education · 3
Practice recognizing emotions and resolving peer conflicts.
Activity detailsMathematics · 3
Explain why two fractions are equivalent by showing they cover the same length of the same whole.
Activity detailsLanguage Arts · 3
Recount fables and determine the moral conveyed through key details.
Activity detailsMathematics · 3
Relate multiplication and division facts within 100.
Activity detailsMathematics · 3
Relate multiplication and division by finding the missing member of a fact family.
Activity detailsScience · 3
Plan a fair test of boat designs, find each design’s failure point, and choose the design that best meets the goal.
Activity detailsHealth & Physical Education · 3
Build balanced meals by including foods from each food group.
Activity detailsScience · 3
Investigate how force, mass, and surface affect motion.
Activity detailsScience · 3
Use fossils as evidence of organisms and environments from long ago.
Activity detailsScience · 3
Read fossil footprints and slab clues as evidence of how ancient animals lived and what their environment was like.
Activity detailsMathematics · 3
Compare fractions with the same numerator or denominator.
Activity detailsMathematics · 3
Locate fractions on number lines and explain the size of each interval.
Activity detailsMathematics · 3
Partition shapes into equal areas and name unit fractions.
Activity detailsTechnology & Computer Basics · 3
Identify the input, processing, and output parts of a computing system.
Activity detailsLanguage Arts · 3
Choose among related words by their strength to match two different clues, and explain the choice with the clue.
Activity detailsArts & Creative Expression · 3
Create repeating visual patterns using contrasting implied and actual textures.
Activity detailsMathematics · 3
Estimate the masses of everyday objects in grams and kilograms by comparing them with benchmark masses.
Activity detailsScience · 3
Explain how living in groups helps some animals find food, defend themselves, and survive.
Activity detailsScience · 3
Explain how traits help organisms survive in particular habitats.
Activity detailsScience · 3
Design and compare garden covers that reduce hail damage while still letting enough light reach the plants.
Activity detailsSocial Studies · 3
Sequence events and distinguish past, present, change, and continuity.
Activity detailsSocial Studies · 3
Explain how people adapt their homes, farms, and travel to mountains, deserts, coasts, and river valleys.
Activity detailsScience · 3
Balance the up and down forces on a hot-air balloon to make it hover, rise, or sink, and explain why it starts or stops moving.
Activity detailsMathematics · 3
Find the area of a rectilinear figure by surrounding it with one rectangle and subtracting the rectangle it does not cover.
Activity detailsOral Language Development · 3
Speak clearly, listen actively, and build on another speaker’s ideas.
Activity detailsLanguage Arts · 3
Explain how illustrations contribute to the mood, setting, and characters a story’s words describe.
Activity detailsSocial Studies · 3
Describe how immigrant families shape a community through work, food, language, and celebrations.
Activity detailsLanguage Arts · 3
Make an inference and cite details that support it.
Activity detailsScience · 3
Distinguish inherited traits from traits influenced by environment.
Activity detailsTechnology & Computer Basics · 3
Identify the input, processing, and output parts of a computing system.
Activity detailsSocial Studies · 3
Compare how one community’s transportation, work, and buildings changed or stayed the same over time.
Activity detailsMathematics · 3
Solve how-many-groups division problems by moving equal groups of people and counting the groups.
Activity detailsScience · 3
Explain how differences in beak size give some finches a better chance to survive and raise young when the food supply changes.
Activity detailsMathematics · 3
Compare two fractions with the same numerator or the same denominator by filling equal wholes.
Activity detailsMathematics · 3
Interpret a product as equal groups by making equal jumps on a number line.
Activity detailsTechnology & Computer Basics · 3
Use keyboard commands accurately and efficiently.
Activity detailsSocial Studies · 3
Explain how people adapt their homes, farms, and travel to mountains, deserts, coasts, and river valleys.
Activity detailsMathematics · 3
Draw a scaled bar graph from a tally and solve how-many-more and total problems from it.
Activity detailsScience · 3
Investigate how magnet orientation and distance make magnets push or pull without touching.
Activity detailsScience · 3
Compare the life cycles of different organisms to find the stages they all share and how they differ.
Activity detailsScience · 3
Model the ordered stages in plant and animal life cycles.
Activity detailsMathematics · 3
Find odd and even patterns in a multiplication-table row and explain them with properties of multiplication.
Activity detailsSocial Studies · 3
Describe how citizens take part in community decisions by voting and volunteering, and how majority rule works.
Activity detailsMathematics · 3
Solve one-step word problems about liquid volumes in liters by simulating equal pours.
Activity detailsLanguage Arts · 3
Distinguish literal and nonliteral meanings of words and phrases in context.
Activity detailsSocial Studies · 3
Describe local government roles and civic decision-making.
Activity detailsTechnology & Computer Basics · 3
Use repeat loops and debug a program whose loop count or steps are wrong.
Activity detailsScience · 3
Investigate magnetic attraction, repulsion, and action at a distance.
Activity detailsSocial Studies · 3
Compare how one community’s transportation, work, and buildings changed or stayed the same over time.
Activity detailsLanguage Arts · 3
Determine a text’s main idea and identify supporting details.
Activity detailsLanguage Arts · 3
Determine each paragraph’s focus and combine them into the main idea of the whole text.
Activity detailsMathematics · 3
Add within 1,000 by moving an amount from one addend to the other to make a friendly hundred.
Activity detailsSocial Studies · 3
Use cardinal directions, symbols, scale, and grid coordinates.
Activity detailsSocial Studies · 3
Model producers, consumers, goods, services, scarcity, and choices.
Activity detailsMathematics · 3
Estimate and measure liquid volume and mass in standard units.
Activity detailsExecutive Function Skills · 3
Manage materials and switch smoothly from one class activity to the next.
Activity detailsArts & Creative Expression · 3
Compose rhythmic measures whose note values fill a whole.
Activity detailsMathematics · 3
Determine the unknown whole number in a multiplication or division equation relating three whole numbers.
Activity detailsMathematics · 3
Solve perimeter problems that require finding an unknown side length.
Activity detailsExecutive Function Skills · 3
Break a goal into ordered, manageable steps and monitor completion.
Activity detailsLanguage Arts · 3
Determine which fable conveys a given moral, cite the key choice that teaches it, and apply the moral to a real-life choice.
Activity detailsMathematics · 3
Tell area from perimeter by tiling a table top in unit squares and trimming its edge in unit lengths.
Activity detailsLanguage Arts · 3
Explain a character’s motivations and how the character’s actions change the sequence of events.
Activity detailsMathematics · 3
Find a start time from an end time and an elapsed time by counting back on a clock.
Activity detailsMathematics · 3
Multiply one-digit whole numbers by multiples of 10 using place value.
Activity detailsMathematics · 3
Interpret products as equal groups and rectangular arrays.
Activity detailsMathematics · 3
Identify arithmetic patterns in the multiplication table and explain them using properties of operations.
Activity detailsMathematics · 3
Use commutative, associative, and distributive properties to reason about products.
Activity detailsMathematics · 3
Interpret a quotient as the size of each equal share by balancing sealed equal boxes against the total.
Activity detailsLanguage Arts · 3
Write opinion pieces that connect the opinion and reasons with linking words and end with a conclusion.
Activity detailsLanguage Arts · 3
Organize an opinion piece so reasons follow the opinion in order with linking words, cut a part that does not support it, and end with a conclusion.
Activity detailsLanguage Arts · 3
Organize a focused paragraph with a topic, details, and conclusion.
Activity detailsLanguage Arts · 3
Keep a paragraph focused on its topic and close it with a sentence that wraps up the topic.
Activity detailsMathematics · 3
Round many whole numbers to the nearest 10 or 100 by sorting them to their nearest benchmark.
Activity detailsLanguage Arts · 3
Proofread dialogue for commas and quotation marks, sort ready lines from lines that need fixing, and name the rule that was broken.
Activity detailsTechnology & Computer Basics · 3
Create strong passwords, protect personal information, and know whom to share login details with.
Activity detailsMathematics · 3
Show that rectangles with the same area can need different perimeters by building every rectangle from the same pavers and measuring its edge.
Activity detailsScience · 3
Use patterns in a swinging object’s motion to predict its future motion.
Activity detailsHealth & Physical Education · 3
Build balanced meals by including foods from each food group.
Activity detailsMathematics · 3
Find an unknown side length of a rectangle from its perimeter, using the fact that opposite sides are equal.
Activity detailsMathematics · 3
Draw and read scaled picture graphs in which one symbol stands for several items.
Activity detailsMathematics · 1-3, 2-3
Learn fractions by making pizza! Select the right number of slices to match the fraction.
Activity detailsMathematics · 3
Compose, decompose, and compare whole numbers through 1,000.
Activity detailsLanguage Arts · 3
Determine the real meaning of nonliteral phrases in a story and recognize the same phrase used literally.
Activity detailsLanguage Arts · 3
Check an illustration against a story’s words and explain how a mismatched picture would mislead readers about mood, setting, or character.
Activity detailsLanguage Arts · 3
Use common affixes to determine and create word meanings.
Activity detailsLanguage Arts · 3
Edit a draft for capitalization, punctuation, and spelling so it is ready to publish.
Activity detailsScience · 3
Use how push strength, surface, and mass change motion to plan a slide that stops in a target zone.
Activity detailsMathematics · 3
Classify quadrilaterals by their sides and angles and recognize rhombuses, rectangles, and squares as quadrilaterals.
Activity detailsMathematics · 3
Measure lengths to the nearest half and quarter inch and show the measurement data on a line plot.
Activity detailsLanguage Arts · 3
Ask and answer questions about a text, referring explicitly to the text as the basis for the answers.
Activity detailsMathematics · 3
Decide whether parts of different shapes are equal shares by comparing their areas, and name one share.
Activity detailsMathematics · 3
Solve one-step word problems about liquid volumes in liters by simulating equal amounts drawn out of a container.
Activity detailsMathematics · 3
Tell and write time to the nearest minute by counting minutes around an analog clock in fives and ones.
Activity detailsLanguage Arts · 3
Recount a story’s key events and explain how the middle events lead to the ending.
Activity detailsMathematics · 3
Find the area of a rectilinear figure by decomposing it into non-overlapping rectangles and adding their areas.
Activity detailsSocial Studies · 3
Identify the natural, human, and capital resources a producer uses to make a good.
Activity detailsOral Language Development · 3
Retell a story aloud in order with key details and transition words.
Activity detailsLanguage Arts · 3
Strengthen writing through revision and editing choices.
Activity detailsArts & Creative Expression · 3
Compose rhythmic measures whose note values fill a whole.
Activity detailsMathematics · 3
Solve how-many-groups division problems by measuring off equal lengths and counting the groups.
Activity detailsArts & Creative Expression · 3
Choose levels and pathways in a movement sequence to express an idea.
Activity detailsMathematics · 3
Sort quadrilaterals into categories by their sides and angles, including squares that belong to more than one category.
Activity detailsTechnology & Computer Basics · 3
Create and debug ordered algorithms with events and conditionals.
Activity detailsMathematics · 3
Round whole numbers to the nearest 10 or 100 using place-value reasoning.
Activity detailsSocial Studies · 3
Explain why communities make rules and laws and how they protect people and property.
Activity detailsSocial Studies · 3
Explain why communities make rules and laws and how they protect people and property.
Activity detailsMathematics · 3
Express a whole number of laps as a fraction and recognize fractions that equal whole numbers.
Activity detailsMathematics · 3
Show that rectangles with the same perimeter can have different areas, and the same area can need different perimeters.
Activity detailsTechnology & Computer Basics · 3
Identify useful, safe, and relevant digital information.
Activity detailsLanguage Arts · 3
Build complete simple, compound, and complex sentences.
Activity detailsLanguage Arts · 3
Repair a sentence fragment and join two simple sentences into a correct compound or complex sentence.
Activity detailsLanguage Arts · 3
Distinguish shades of meaning among related words that describe states and degrees.
Activity detailsTechnology & Computer Basics · 3
Use keyboard commands accurately and efficiently.
Activity detailsGeneral · K-5, 1-2, 2-3, 3-4, 4-5
Explore the interactive space playground! Click on objects to see them come alive with animations and sounds.
Activity detailsOral Language Development · 3
Speak clearly, listen actively, and build on another speaker’s ideas.
Activity detailsScience · 3
Use a balanced straw detector to test which rubbed objects push or pull across a gap, and how the gap changes the force.
Activity detailsMathematics · 3
Use the distributive property to break a product into two easier products.
Activity detailsMathematics · 3
Estimate the masses of everyday objects in grams and kilograms by testing them against one benchmark mass on matching springs.
Activity detailsScience · 3
Investigate electric pushes and pulls between charged objects that are not touching.
Activity detailsScience · 3
Design and compare solutions that reduce the impact of weather-related hazards.
Activity detailsLanguage Arts · 3
Recount stories and determine how events build on one another.
Activity detailsOral Language Development · 3
Retell a story aloud in order with key details and transition words.
Activity detailsLanguage Arts · 3
Ensure subject-verb and pronoun-antecedent agreement in sentences.
Activity detailsMathematics · 3
Subtract within 1,000 using decomposition and regrouping.
Activity detailsSocial Studies · 3
Describe how immigrant families shape a community through work, food, language, and celebrations.
Activity detailsMathematics · 3
Recognize equivalent fractions as the same point on a number line by placing swimmers on lanes partitioned into different equal parts.
Activity detailsExecutive Function Skills · 3
Manage materials and switch smoothly from one class activity to the next.
Activity detailsExecutive Function Skills · 3
Break a goal into ordered, manageable steps and monitor completion.
Activity detailsMathematics · 3
Compose and decompose whole numbers through 1,000 in more than one way by trading hundreds for tens.
Activity detailsLanguage Arts · 3
Decide whether a text answers a question and, when it does, point to the exact sentence that is the basis for the answer.
Activity detailsLanguage Arts · 3
Use text features and search tools to locate information efficiently.
Activity detailsArts & Creative Expression · 3
Create repeating visual patterns using contrasting implied and actual textures.
Activity detailsSocial Studies · 3
Describe how local government listens to residents and makes decisions about limited money.
Activity detailsSocial Studies · 3
Describe how citizens take part in community decisions by voting and volunteering, and how majority rule works.
Activity detailsMathematics · 3
Place fractions, including fractions greater than 1, on a number line partitioned into equal intervals.
Activity detailsScience · 3
Explain how differences in traits among members of a species give some a better chance to survive and reproduce.
Activity detailsScience · 3
Use seeds from the same parent plant grown in different conditions to tell inherited traits from traits changed by the environment.
Activity detailsLanguage Arts · 3
Compare and contrast the key points of two texts on the same topic, feature by feature.
Activity detailsMathematics · 3
Solve two-step word problems that join or remove a length and then divide it into equal parts.
Activity detailsMathematics · 3
Represent and solve two-step word problems using all four operations.
Activity detailsMathematics · 3
Make change by counting up from a price and find how much change is still owed after a partial return.
Activity detailsScience · 3
Represent a month of weather data in a graph to describe the weather typical of a season.
Activity detailsScience · 3
Collect and interpret temperature, wind, precipitation, and cloud data.
Activity detailsMathematics · 3
Express whole numbers as fractions and recognize fractions that are equal to whole numbers.
Activity detailsSocial Studies · 3
Identify the natural, human, and capital resources a producer uses to make a good.
Activity detailsScience · 3
Combine temperature and rainfall records to describe and compare the climates of different regions.
Activity detailsLanguage Arts · 3
Use headings, captions, diagram labels, and sidebars to locate information quickly.
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