3rd grade

Leslie Fox Keyser

Mrs. Barbe’s Home Page

Science Class Information

On this page you will be able to view what unit your student is studying by each advisory.  You will also find some of my favorite links for Science located at the bottom of the page.
Text Box: First Advisory 1. Simple and compound machines 2. Work, Force, and Energy 3. Natural Resources of energy (ie. Coal, oil, natural gas) and Types of energy (solar, wind, hydro, and nuclear) 4. Conservation = to save (how to save energy, water, natural Text Box: Second Advisory 1. Earth Patterns (water cycle, moon cycle, season cycle, and the day/night cycle) 2. Life Cycles (butterfly, frog, and seed) 3. Three States of Matter (solid, liquid, and gas) Text Box: Fourth Advisory 1. Soil—layers of soil and why it is important (topsoil, subsoil, and bedrock; helps prevent erosion) 2. Natural disasters and how that change our world and lives (tornadoes, hurricanes, floods, earthquake, mudslide, tsunami, etc.) 3. SOL testing Text Box: Third Advisory 1. Food Chains (producer, consumer, decomposer, herbivore, carnivore, omnivore) 2. Wet & Dry land habitats (desert, rainforest, grassland, ocean, swamp, marsh, river, lake, pond) 3. Interdependency of animals (how living things depend on each other to survive) 4. Physical & behavioral adaptations (ie. Camouflage, migration, hibernation, mimicry, instinct, and learned behavior) Text Box: Recommended links: National Geographic The Electronic Zoo Enchanted Learning Sea World National Zoo The Science Explorer Cool Science for Curious Kids The Great Plant Escape Earth and Moon Viewer National Geographic for Kids Hurricane Storm Center WickED—Quiz It Bill Nye the Science Guy ZOOM! - Games by Kids, 4 kids Amazon Interactive Weather Wiz Kids Volcano World