Grade 03 Science - EC: S3.B.3.2.3
Grade 03 Science - EC: S3.B.3.2.3
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 way humans can affect an environment.
- How do humans and animals compete for space?
- What is a possible effect of humans building roads to make travel more efficient?
- To build roads, humans use land where animals live. To build cities, humans use land where animals live. Identify one pattern you see, and discuss its possible effects.
- Every year, animals die due to pollution from humans. Identify some ways this happens and develop a logical argument for why we should work harder to recycle and use our resources responsibly.
- Humans build dams to meet their needs. Investigate how this could affect animals.
Answer Key/Rubric
- Acceptable responses may include, but are not limited to:
- Road construction, pollution, urban development, dam building, etc.
- Acceptable responses may include, but are not limited to:
- As the human population increases, cities and towns expand.
- As cities and towns expand, they often destroy animal’s homes for more space.
- Now, animals and humans live in the same area, and compete for space.
- Acceptable responses may include, but are not limited to:
- Effect: the land humans use could be home to animals, so they animals might lose their homes.
- Effect: animal populations in that area might decrease.
- Effect: more animals might be hit by cars because they have no other place to go.
- Acceptable responses may include, but are not limited to:
- The pattern is that humans use animal’s habitats to increase their own lifestyle.
- An effect could be that animal populations will decrease.
- Another effect could be that more animals will be endangered or extinct.
- Acceptable responses may include, but are not limited to:
- Some animals get caught in oil spills
- Some animals get caught in garbage humans throw away
- Humans should recycle more because we are hurting animals with our pollution.
- Animals need a safe and clean environment to live in.
- We should be more responsible with our resources because we share our planet with animals.
- It is not fair that we destroy their environment for our benefit.
- Acceptable responses may include, but are not limited to:
- Dams can block fish from migrating, which will decrease the fish population.
- Dams change the environment, which could hurt animals that had already lived there.
- Dams can cause pollution, which hurts animals
