Grade 03 Science - EC: S3.A.3.2.1
Grade 03 Science - EC: S3.A.3.2.1
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
Related Academic Standards / Eligible Content
Activities
- What color normally represents bodies of water on maps?
- Identify a physical feature a region could have.
- Identify the following features of the map below by creating a key. Features: mountains, lake, river and stream.
- Infer why it would make sense to use a bumpy texture to represent mountains on a map.
- Summarize why it is important to have a key on a map.
- Pretend you are a map maker. A river you want to map is 500 miles long. Construct a scale you would use to draw that river. Justify your scale.
- Erica sees a scale on a map that says “one inch = ten miles”. She measured a mountain range and saw that it was ten inches across. She says that means the mountain range was 50 miles long. Critique Erica’s thinking.
Answer Key/Rubric
- The color blue normally represents bodies of water on maps.
- Acceptable responses may include, but are not limited to:
- Lakes, rivers, ponds, streams, and oceans
- Mountains, valleys and hills
- Key should be similar to one shown below:
- Acceptable responses may include, but are not limited to:
- Mountains have texture, so it would make sense to use a bumpy texture to represent mountains on a map.
- Mountains are not flat.
- Mountains go up and down, so they would appear bumpy when looking down on them.
- Acceptable responses may include, but are not limited to:
- A key is important so we can tell what things are.
- A key is also important because it allows us to tell the scale of the map.
- A key is important to show what things represent.
- Acceptable responses may include, but are not limited to:
- One possible scale is every 100 miles could equal an inch.
- Justification: The scale makes sense because the river would be five inches, and that would be a reasonable length to draw on a map.
- Acceptable responses may include, but are not limited to:
- Erica is wrong because she did not use the scale correctly.
- She should have multiplied the ten inches by the ten miles to get 100 miles.
- She did not calculate the math correctly.
