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Grade 03 Science - EC: S3.C.1.1.5

Grade 03 Science - EC: S3.C.1.1.5

Continuum of Activities

Continuum of Activities

The list below represents a continuum of activities: resources categorized by Standard/Eligible Content that teachers may use to move students toward proficiency. Using LEA curriculum and available materials and resources, teachers can customize the activity statements/questions for classroom use.

This continuum of activities offers:

  • Instructional activities designed to be integrated into planned lessons
  • Questions/activities that grow in complexity
  • Opportunities for differentiation for each student’s level of performance

Activities

  1. Identify one property of a liquid.
  1. Identify one property of a gas.
  1. A cookie is a solid. It accidentally gets put under a large book that applies pressure. Predict what might happen to the properties of the cookie.                          
  1. Describe how the physical properties of wood can be changed.
  1. “Erosion causes rock to crumble into soil. This changes the state of matter the rock was in.” Critique this statement.

Answer Key/Rubric

  1. Acceptable responses may include, but are not limited to:
  • Liquids take the shape of their containers.
  • Liquids move around in their containers.
  1. Acceptable responses may include, but are not limited to:
  • Gas moves around.
  • You cannot see gas.
  1. Acceptable responses may include, but are not limited to:
  • The cookie might crumble.
  • The shape, size, and texture of the cookie might change.
  • The cookie will remain a solid.
  1. Acceptable responses may include, but are not limited to:
  • Wood can be heated to change the properties.
  • When wood is heated it becomes ash.
  1. Acceptable responses may include, but are not limited to:
  • This statement is not true.
  • A rock is a solid.
  • Soil is a solid.
  • Therefore, erosion did not cause the state of matter to change.
  • Erosion changed some of the properties of the matter, such as shape and size.
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