Science Homeschool Curriculum Skills List | Faith-Based Third Grade

Science concepts create the themes for the units within Third Grade Complete.  The questions for discussion of the concepts incorporate new vocabulary words that become part of your child’s usable vocabulary and stimulate higher-level thinking skills. The enrichment activities or experiments provided reinforce the skills being taught in a fun or challenging way.

• Use a scientific method.
• Understand that God gives animals instincts which help them survive.
• Learn about predators and prey.
• Draw an animal’s habitat.
• Understand the components of a food chain.
• Understand that plants and animals progress through life cycles of birth, growth and development, reproduction, and death; the details of these life cycles are different for different organisms.
• Know that distinct environments support the life of different types of plants and animals.
• Classify objects.
• Learn about types of weather.
• Learn about different types of storms.
• Use a barometer to predict weather.
• Demonstrate refracted light, and produce a rainbow.
• Grow crystals.
• Understand that the world was created by God.
• Understand that God expects us to care for His creation.
• Explore the world through observation and experimentation.
• Learn about peanut plants and their uses.
• Learn the process of harvesting peanuts.
• Learn about peanut allergies and anaphylaxis.
• Make predictions and draw conclusions based on patterns or evidence.
• Understand the importance of healthy living.
• Recall the four food groups, and evaluate diet for good nutrition.
• Recall the five senses.
• Apply physics principles: potential and kinetic energy, inertia, force, friction.
• Differentiate between potential and kinetic energy.
• Observe and apply Newton’s Laws of Motion.
• Create a simple pendulum, and understand the forces that cause a pendulum to swing.
• Discover how water pressure affects the flow of water.
• Identify the parts of a grasshopper.
• Draw a diagram of a spider, and label its body parts.
• Understand how spiders capture and eat food.
• Construct a model of an orb web.
• Learn the four stages of a fruit fly’s life cycle.
• Recognize the characteristics and habitats of various types of animals.
• Learn about Asian animals.
• Understand that sound is made with vibrations.
• Understand that sound waves can travel through different mediums including solids, liquids, and gases.
• Understand and observe that a sound wave travels in a given direction until an object gets in the way of its motion.
• Observe differences in the pitch of sounds.
• Learn how the eardrum works.
• Recognize and create simple and compound machines.
• Understand the process of a water cycle.