GRADE+3

Teacher Events and Resources: [|LES Ecology Center]

Field Trips: [|Catskill Watershed]

**GRADE 3 CURRICULUM MAP:**
// [Unit Performance Task: Week of November 1st, due Friday November 4th, 2011] // || Alternative Energy: Due to weather conditions in Puerto Rico, students as energy conservationists will create a plan for alternative energy sources in case of a power outage. // [Unit Performance Task: Week of January 23rd, due January 27th] // || 3-D Models – As an engineer, students will construct 3-D models of simple machines that aid in the pumping and the transportation of water to villages in Kenya. The models will be accompanied by diary entries from the engineer’s point of view. Entries will include the description of the building plan, the building process, tools and materials used, and changes made to make a working machine. The diary will also include how the machine will change and affect village life, customs, and thoughts and feelings associated with the change. // [Unit Performance Task: Week of April 2nd, due April 5th] // || Living Things Webpage: As webpage designers students will take a virtual trip to China. They will then create a webpage showing people, plants and/or animals they encounter on the trip. Students should include facts/opinions, observations, stories, art, and comparisons of the living things in China to the living things in the U.S. // [Unit Performance Task: Week of June 15, due June 22nd] // ||
 * || ** Sep. 19th, 2011—Nov. 4th, 2011 ** || ** Nov. 18th – Jan. 27th, 2012 ** || ** Jan. 30th – Apr. 5th, 2011 ** || ** Apr.16th – JuN. 15th, 2012 ** ||
 * || UNIT 1 || UNIT 2 || UNIT 3 || UNIT 4 ||
 * || Matter / Introduction to World Geography and Communities around the World || Energy / Puerto Rico || Plant and Animal Adaptations / China || Plant and Animal Adaptations / China ||
 * **Essential Question ** || How does matter affect your environment/life? || How do can we continue to depend on the earth’s resources and sustain our existence the way we want? || How have simple machines influenced and sustained the development of human civilizations? || How do animals and plants adapt to changing environmental conditions? ||
 * **Enduring Understanding ** || Matter has many properties and can be changed to sustain your environment. || The environment we’re in influences the form of energy we use. || Machines, both simple and compound, make our everyday life easier. || Different environments support a diversity of plants and animals that share limited resources. ||
 * **Performance Task ** || World community photo essay: There has been an increase amount of matter (waste) in different part of the communities. Students as photo journalist will compile a photo essay for National Geographic to inform the community about the increase in waste.