Grade 03 Science - EC: S3.C.1.1.5
Grade 03 Science - EC: S3.C.1.1.5
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
- Identify one property of a liquid.
- Identify one property of a gas.
- A cookie is a solid. It accidentally gets put under a large book that applies pressure. Predict what might happen to the properties of the cookie.
- Describe how the physical properties of wood can be changed.
- “Erosion causes rock to crumble into soil. This changes the state of matter the rock was in.” Critique this statement.
Answer Key/Rubric
- Acceptable responses may include, but are not limited to:
- Liquids take the shape of their containers.
- Liquids move around in their containers.
- Acceptable responses may include, but are not limited to:
- Gas moves around.
- You cannot see gas.
- Acceptable responses may include, but are not limited to:
- The cookie might crumble.
- The shape, size, and texture of the cookie might change.
- The cookie will remain a solid.
- Acceptable responses may include, but are not limited to:
- Wood can be heated to change the properties.
- When wood is heated it becomes ash.
- Acceptable responses may include, but are not limited to:
- This statement is not true.
- A rock is a solid.
- Soil is a solid.
- Therefore, erosion did not cause the state of matter to change.
- Erosion changed some of the properties of the matter, such as shape and size.
