Grade 3 Classroom activity
Water Words Scavenger Hunt at the Thistlewood Treatment Plant
A grade 3 partner scavenger hunt where students read eight clue cards about treatment-plant jobs and steps and answer each question with text evidence.
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Grade 3
Third graders begin multiplication, scaled graphs, and the measurement of liquid volume in liters, a standard that is naturally about water. Materials here pair weather and climate data with the grade's new graphing skills and first structured paragraphs.
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Grade 3 Worksheet
Cindergrove Park Recycled-Water Signs: A Grade 3 Design Worksheet
Grade 3 students read a town's design brief and make color, contrast, picture, size, and placement choices for purple recycled-water signs in a drought-hit park.
Grade 3 Project
Farrowdale Creek Watershed Quilt: A Grade 3 Connected-Squares Project
Over four sessions, each grade 3 student designs one square of a paper quilt map whose stream lines must join across squares to show a whole creek watershed.
Grade 3 Lesson plan
Larchwood Plant Microbes: A Grade 3 Zoom-In Drawing Lesson
Grade 3 students read a fact card on the tiny living things that clean used water at a made-up plant, then draw one large in a circle with contour line and texture.
Grade 3 Lab / experiment
Weighing the Water in Snacks: The Brambleigh School Drying Lab
A grade 3 health lab: students weigh cucumber, apple, bread, and crackers in grams, dry them for four days, and weigh again to find how much water each snack held.
Grade 3 Project
Mallowdene's Dry Summer: The Kittering Family Drought Health Plan
A four-session grade 3 health project: groups measure handwashing water in liters and plan how a fictional family can save water in a drought and still stop germs.