Water Health & Consumer Science · Grade 3

These materials address hydration, water safety, and home water use, and treat reading a water bill or a water quality report as a practical consumer skill.

14 materials written for this grade · refine by type, topic, or standard in the catalog

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.

Health & Consumer Science 2 sessions, ~80 min total Answer key

Grade 3 Worksheet

Safe Water to Drink on the Bluff Creek Hike

A grade 3 worksheet where students read a ranger's rule about drinking water on a class hike and decide which water sources on the trail are safe to drink.

Health & Consumer Science 25 min Answer key

Grade 3 Lesson plan

The Brambleton Family Reads a Boil-Water Notice

A 40-minute grade 3 health lesson where students read a fictional town's boil-water notice and answer questions by highlighting the sentence that supports each answer.

Health & Consumer Science 40 min Answer key

Grade 3 Worksheet

Water Break Times at Cricket Hollow Day Camp

A grade 3 worksheet where students read a fictional day camp schedule and solve elapsed-time problems in minutes about the camp's three daily water breaks.

Health & Consumer Science 30 min Answer key

Grade 3 Reading passage

A Hot Day at the Dragonfly Relay Races

A grade 3 narrative passage about a runner who skips a water break on a hot race day, with comprehension questions on the signs that a body needs water.

Health & Consumer Science 30 min Answer key

Grade 3 Graphic organizer

Soap, Water, and Germs: A Handwashing Chain Organizer

A grade 3 cause-and-effect chain organizer tracing how each handwashing step uses water to move germs off hands and down the drain, with a completed exemplar.

Health & Consumer Science 25 min Answer key

Grade 3 Worksheet

Water Bottles for the Junco Soccer Team: Equal Groups

A grade 3 worksheet where students use equal-groups multiplication to count the water bottles a fictional soccer team packs, fills, and drinks on game day.

Health & Consumer Science 30 min Answer key

Grade 3 Classroom activity

After the Storm at Milkvetch Park: A Safe-or-Not Game

A grade 3 movement game where students hear after-storm scenarios at a fictional park and walk to Safe Choice or Not Safe signs, then defend a choice in writing.

Health & Consumer Science 30 min Answer key

Grade 3 Classroom activity

The Pepperbush Water Walk: From Lake to Drinking Fountain

A grade 3 station walk where students act out how the fictional town of Pepperbush turns lake water into safe fountain water, then answer the station card questions.

Health & Consumer Science 40 min Answer key

Grade 3 Graphic organizer

Safe or Unsafe? A Grade 3 Home Water Safety Organizer

A grade 3 compare-and-sort organizer where students use a short reading passage to decide whether home water habits are safe or unsafe, with a completed teacher exemplar.

Health & Consumer Science 25 min Answer key