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3rd Grade

Earth's Systems

 

Students who demonstrate understanding can:

Performance Expectations
 

 

Obtain and combine information to describe climates in different regions of the world. 3-ESS2-2

Clarification Statement and Assessment Boundary

Clarification Statement: none

Assessment Boundary: none

Science and Engineering Practices

Obtaining, Evaluating, and Communicating Information

Obtaining, evaluating, and communicating information in 3–5 builds on K–2 experiences and progresses to evaluating the merit and accuracy of ideas and methods.

Obtain and combine information from books and other reliable media to explain phenomena. (3-ESS2-2)

Disciplinary Core Ideas

ESS2.D:  Weather and Climate

Climate describes a range of an area's typical weather conditions and the extent to which those conditions vary over years. (3-ESS2-2)

Crosscutting Concepts

Patterns

Patterns of change can be used to make predictions (3-ESS2-2)

Common Core State Standards Connections

ELA/Literacy
  • RI.3.1 - Ask and answer questions to demonstrate understanding of a text, referring explicitly to the text as the basis for the answers. (3-ESS2-2)
  • RI.3.9 - Compare and contrast the most important points and key details presented in two texts on the same topic. (3-ESS2-2)
  • W.3.8 - Recall information from experiences or gather information from print and digital sources; take brief notes on sources and sort evidence into provided categories. (3-ESS2-2)
Mathematics
  • MP.2 - Reason abstractly and quantitatively. (3-ESS2-2)
  • MP.4 - Model with mathematics. (3-ESS2-2)