Grade 3 Lesson plan
Cranemont Storm Drain Screens: A Grade 3 Picture Graph Lesson
A 45-minute grade 3 lesson where students read and build a scaled picture graph with a key of 5 from litter counts pulled off storm drain screens in a fictional town.
Common Core Math · Grade 3
3.MD.B.3 Draw scaled picture and bar graphs
Draw a scaled picture graph and a scaled bar graph to represent a data set with several categories. Solve one- and two-step 'how many more' and 'how many less' problems using information presented in scaled bar graphs.
Why water teaches this standard well
Students draw a scaled bar graph comparing liters of water used by a dishwasher, a washing machine, and a shower, where each bar segment stands for several liters instead of one. Reading a scaled bar for the first time is the exact skill needed to read a real utility's consumption chart.
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Lesson plans
Grade 3 Lesson plan
The Quimby Family's Water Glasses: A Scaled Bar Graph Lesson
A 45-minute grade 3 lesson where students graph how many glasses of water a fictional family drank in a day and solve how-many-more problems from the scaled bars.
Grade 3 Lesson plan
Tallowbridge's Fish Count: A Grade 3 Water Cleanup Lesson
A 50-minute grade 3 lesson in which students graph fish counts from a fictional brook before and after a water reclamation plant opened, then write a claim.
Grade 3 Lesson plan
Rainy Mossgate, Dry Redsand: A Grade 3 Two-Town Water Lesson
Students compare rainy-day tables for two fictional towns, build a scaled bar graph, and explain how each town's water habits fit the weather it gets.
Grade 3 Lesson plan
Birch Grove's Rain Gauge: A Grade 3 Water Cycle Graphing Lesson
A 45-minute grade 3 lesson where students graph four weeks of a fictional school rain gauge's readings on a scaled bar graph and connect the totals to the water cycle.
Worksheets
Grade 3 Worksheet
Harrowby's Tower Height Test: A Grade 3 Water Pressure Worksheet
A grade 3 worksheet built on an invented bottle test from a made-up town, with a scaled bar graph of squirt lengths and questions about where to put a tower.
Grade 3 Worksheet
Meadowlark School Water-Use Picture Graph Design Worksheet
A grade 3 worksheet where students design icons for a scaled picture graph of a school's weekly water use and answer how-many-more questions.
Grade 3 Worksheet
Silverpine Creek Gauges: A Grade 3 Scaled Bar Graph Worksheet
A grade 3 worksheet where students read and draw a scaled bar graph of liters caught at four creek gauges in a fictional watershed, then compare the bars.
Grade 3 Worksheet
Pikestaff Ridge Snow and Ravensgate Creek: A Grade 3 Worksheet
A grade 3 worksheet using six months of invented snow-depth readings from a mountain ridge, with a scaled bar graph and questions about spring melt.
Grade 3 Worksheet
Three Wells at Blue Heron Farm: A Scaled Bar Graph Worksheet
A grade 3 worksheet where students draw a scaled bar graph of three farm wells' pumping rates and answer comparison questions using the graph.
Grade 3 Worksheet
Willow Creek's Flood Barrier: A Grade 3 Rain Data Worksheet
A grade 3 worksheet where students read a scaled rain graph for a fictional town and decide whether its wettest month fits a proposed flood barrier's design plan.
Math problem sets
Grade 3 Math problem set
Was Halverstone's Summer Unusual? A Grade 3 Rain-Record Set
Nine grade 3 problems on four years of rainy-day counts from a fictional town, where students add and compare to judge whether one dry summer was unusual.
Grade 3 Math problem set
Cedar Hollow's Leak Repairs: A Grade 3 Scaled Picture Graph Set
Students read a fictional town's picture graph of leaks fixed in five neighborhoods, where one drop stands for five leaks, then redraw rows at the same scale.
Grade 3 Math problem set
Dunmoor Water Lab Sample Chart: A Grade 3 Bar Graph Set
A grade 3 problem set where students draw and read a scaled bar graph of water samples the fictional Dunmoor lab collects from four spots in the water system.
Labs & experiments
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 Lab / experiment
Build a Rain Gauge and Keep a Rainfall Record
Third graders build a working rain gauge from a bottle, site it outdoors correctly, and keep a month-long class rainfall log they total and graph on a scaled bar graph.
Quizzes & test questions
Grade 3 Quiz & test questions
Marsh Rowan's Cranberry Bogs: A Grade 3 Water and Work Quiz
A 22-point grade 3 quiz on how growers at a fictional cranberry farm reshape wet land to hold water, including a scaled bar graph of the harvest.
Grade 3 Quiz & test questions
A Day at Clearwater Springs Water Plant: A Grade 3 Math Quiz
A 24-point grade 3 quiz mixing multiple-choice, short-answer, and computation items on liters, a scaled bar graph, and two-step problems at a fictional plant.