Science · Grade 3

Skills

• Understands a fair test: change one thing, keep everything else the same.
• Uses simple equipment correctly: thermometer, magnifier, measuring cylinder, scales, stopwatch.
• Knows how plants make their own food from light, water and air, and why that matters to everything else.
• Knows what a habitat is and how an animal is suited to its own.
• Builds a food chain from producer to top predator, and says what happens if one link is removed.
• Explains melting, freezing, boiling and evaporation, with the temperatures water does them at.
• Knows the water cycle and can draw it.
• Knows friction slows things down, and gives everyday examples of wanting more of it and less.
• Knows light travels in straight lines, that we see by reflected light, and how shadows are made.
• Knows sound is a vibration, travels through air, and gets quieter with distance.
• Explains day and night by the Earth's rotation — not by the Sun moving.
• Knows the Earth orbits the Sun once a year, and that this makes the seasons.
• Names the eight planets in order from the Sun.