Grade 3 Science ILS Standards

Engineering Design

Define a simple design problem reflecting a need or a want that includes specified criteria for success and constraints on materials, time, or cost.

Generate and compare multiple possible solutions to a problem based on how well each is likely to meet the criteria and constraints of the problem.

Plan and carry out fair tests in which variables are controlled and failure points are considered to identify aspects of a model or prototype that can be improved.

Earth's Systems

Represent data in tables and graphical displays to describe typical weather conditions expected during a particular season.

Obtain and combine information to describe climates in different regions of the world.

Earth and Human Activity

Make a claim about the merit of a design solution that reduces the impacts of a weather-related hazard.

From Molecules to Organisms: Structures and Processes

Develop models to describe that organisms have unique and diverse life cycles but all have in common birth, growth, reproduction, and death.

Ecosystems: Interactions, Energy, and Dynamics

Construct an argument that some animals form groups that help members survive.

Heredity: Inheritance and Variation of Traits

Analyze and interpret data to provide evidence that plants and animals have traits inherited from parents and that variation of these traits exists in a group of similar organisms.

Use evidence to support the explanation that traits can be influenced by the environment.

Biological Evolution: Unity and Diversity

Analyze and interpret data from fossils to provide evidence of the organisms and the environments in which they lived long ago.

Use evidence to construct an explanation for how the variations in characteristics among individuals of the same species may provide advantages in surviving, finding mates, and reproducing.

Construct an argument with evidence that in a particular habitat some organisms can survive well, some survive less well, and some cannot survive at all.

Make a claim about the merit of a solution to a problem caused when the environment changes and the types of plants and animals that live there may change.

Motion and Stability: Forces and Interactions

Plan and conduct an investigation to provide evidence of the effects of balanced and unbalanced forces on the motion of an object.

Make observations and/or measurements of an object's motion to provide evidence that a pattern can be used to predict future motion.

Ask questions to determine cause and effect relationships of electric or magnetic interactions between two objects not in contact with each other.

Define a simple design problem that can be solved by applying scientific ideas about magnets.

Algorithms: Compare and refine multiple algorithms for the same task and determine which is the most appropriate.

Variables: Create programs that use variables to store and modify data.

Control: Create programs that include sequences, events, loops, and conditionals.

Modularity: Decompose (break down) problems into smaller, manageable subproblems to facilitate the program development process.

Modularity: Modify, remix, or incorporate portions of an existing program into one's own work, to develop something new or add more advanced features.

Program Development : Use an iterative process to plan the development of a program by including others' perspectives and considering user preferences.

Program Development : Observe intellectual property rights and give appropriate attribution when creating or remixing programs.

Program Development: Test and debug (identify and fix errors) a program or algorithm to ensure it runs as intended.

Program Development:  Take on varying roles, with teacher guidance, when collaborating with peers during the design, implementation, and review stages of program development.

Program Development: Describe choices made during program development using code comments, presentations, and demonstrations

Devices: Describe how internal and external parts of computing devices function to form a system.

Hardware and Software: Model how computer hardware and software work together as a system to accomplish tasks. Discuss task specific embedded systems.

Determine potential solutions to solve simple hardware and software problems using common troubleshooting strategies.

Collection, Visualization, and Transformation: Organize and present collected data visually to highlight relationships and support a claim.

Interference and Models:  Use data to highlight or propose cause-and-effect relationships, predict outcomes, or communicate an idea.

Explain that the field of emerging technologies will be evolving and rapidly growing

Compare existing and emerging technologies, ideas, and concepts.

Describe how emerging technologies are influencing current events at a local and global scale.

Predict the positive and negative societal, cultural, and economic impacts that emerging and future technologies may generate.

Create new or original work by applying emerging technologies.

Culture: Discuss computing technologies that have changed the world and express how those technologies influence, and are influenced by, cultural practices

Social Interactions : Seek diverse perspectives for the purpose of improving computational artifacts.

Culture: Brainstorm ways to improve the accessibility and usability of technology products for the diverse needs and wants of users

Safety Law and Ethics:   Use public domain or Creative Commons media and refrain from copying or using material created by others without permission.

Network Communication and Organization: Model how information is broken down into smaller pieces, transmitted as packets through multiple devices over networks and the internet, and reassembled at the destination.

Cybersecurity:  Discuss real-world cybersecurity problems and how personal information can be protected.

Networks and the Internet

Computing Systems

Data and Analysis

Impacts of Computing

Algorithms and Programming

Emerging and Future Technologies