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Subject Area - 3:
Science and Technology and Engineering Education
Science and Technology and Engineering Education
- Standard Area - 3.3: Earth and Space Sciences
- Organizing Category - 3.3.A: Earth Structure, Processes and Cycles
- Grade Level - 3.3.3.A: GRADE 3
Standard - 3.3.3.A7
- Distinguish between scientific fact and opinion.
- Ask questions about objects, organisms, and events.
- Understand that all scientific investigations involve asking and answering questions and comparing the answer with what is already known.
- Plan and conduct a simple investigation and understand that different questions require different kinds of investigations.
- Use simple equipment (tools and other technologies) to gather data and understand that this allows scientists to collect more information than relying only on their senses to gather information.
- Use data/evidence to construct explanations and understand that scientists develop explanations based on their evidence and compare them with their current scientific knowledge.
- Communicate procedures and explanations giving priority to evidence and understanding that scientists make their results public, describe their investigations so they can be reproduced, and review and ask questions about the work of other scientists.
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Assessment Anchor - S3.D.1 Earth Features and Processes That Change Earth and Its Resources
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Anchor Descriptor - S3.D.1.1 Describe various materials that make up Earth.
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Eligible Content - S3.D.1.1.1 Recognize that rock is composed of different kinds of minerals.
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Eligible Content - S3.D.1.1.2 Describe the composition of soil as weathered rock and decomposed organic material.
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Anchor Descriptor - S3.D.1.2 Identify and describe the types of Earth’s natural resources.
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Eligible Content - S3.D.1.2.1 Describe why certain resources are renewable and other resources are nonrenewable.
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Eligible Content - S3.D.1.2.2 Identify and describe examples of renewable and nonrenewable resources.
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Eligible Content - S3.D.1.2.3 Describe the ways living things benefit from the uses of water resources.
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Anchor Descriptor - S3.D.1.3 Identify and describe the ways that cause Earth’s surface to be in a state of constant change.
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Eligible Content - S3.D.1.3.1 Identify ways that cause Earth’s surface to be constantly changing (e.g., wind and water erosion, contraction and expansion of surfaces).
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Eligible Content - S3.D.1.3.2 Distinguish between ways that tear down the surface of Earth and those that build up the surface (e.g., erosion, weathering, volcanic activity, earthquakes).
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Eligible Content - S3.D.1.3.3 Distinguish between slow and rapid changes to Earth’s surface (i.e., rapid [earthquakes, volcanic activity]; slow [weathering, erosion]).
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Assessment Anchor - S3.D.2 Weather, Climate, and Atmospheric Processes
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Anchor Descriptor - S3.D.2.1 Identify basic weather conditions and how they are measured.
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Eligible Content - S3.D.2.1.1 Recognize that clouds have different characteristics that relate to different weather conditions.
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Eligible Content - S3.D.2.1.2 Describe how weather variables (i.e., temperature, wind speed, wind direction, and precipitation) are observed and measured.
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Eligible Content - S3.D.2.1.3 Identify appropriate instruments to study and measure weather elements (i.e., thermometer [temperature]; wind vane [wind direction]; anemometer [wind speed]; rain gauge [precipitation]).
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