Grade 3 - Alberta Science - Lessons/Workbook Mega Bundle

This mega bundle provides everything you need to teach all the units in the Grade 3 Alberta Science Curriculum.

With your purchase, you will receive lesson slides that follow the 3-Part lesson format, engaging your students from start to finish. You will also receive the workbooks, which contain fun activities and worksheets for your students to demonstrate their understanding.

Earth Systems Unit

Workbook

Some of the concepts that are covered:

• Sudden vs Gradual Changes to Earth
• Layers of Earth
• The Earth’s Plates
• Mountains
• Plate Boundaries
• Experiment - Types of Plate Boundaries
• The Rocky Mountains
• Landforms – Glaciers, Valleys, Riverbeds, Deltas
• Experiment - Making a Valley
• How Our Actions Make Glaciers Melt
• From Ice to Ocean: The Great Journey of Water
• Activity: Glacier Coding Journey
• Experiment - Making a Volcano
• Sudden Changes - Landslides
• Erosion - Wind, Water, Ice
• Weathering, Erosion, Deposition
• Example of Erosion - Coastal Erosion
• Meandering Streams
• Example of Erosion - Waterfall Formation
• Lakes in Alberta: Drying and Refilling
• Wind/Water Shaping The Badlands
• How Humans Change Earth’s Surface
• How Using Resources Changes The Earth
• The Impact of Plants/Animals on Earth’s Surface
• Earth’s Layers and Fossils
• Experiment - Fossils
• Dating Fossils - Relative Dating
• A Long, Long Time Ago in Alberta
• Finding Fossils in Alberta’s Badlands
• The Dinosaurs of Alberta
• Coding Activity - Fossils
• IF/THEN Statements - Fossils
• All About Soil
• Experiment - Soil Composition Test
• Layers of Soil
• Experiment - Layers of Soil Model
• Investigating Components of Soil
• Different Uses of Earth’s Materials
• How Soil Supports Living Things
• Importance of Soil - First Nations/ Metis
• Unit test
• Answer pages for all activities

Living Systems Unit

Workbook

Some of the concepts that are covered:

• Ecosystem - Living and Non-Living Things
• Herbivores, Carnivores, Omnivores
• Classifying Organisms
• Experiment - Animal Scat
• Food Chain - Producers and Consumers
• Ordering Food Chains
• Altering the Food Chain
• Food chains in wetlands, deserts, arctics, and African savannas
• Reading a Food Web
• Story - Alberta Food Chain
• Plants Responding to Light
• Activity - Plants Respond to Light
• Plants Responding to Touch, Water, and Gravity
• Lab - Water Travels Through a Plant
• Experiment - Tasty Leaves
• Plant Profile - Cactus
• How Animals Respond To Light
• Nocturnal and Diurnal Animals
• Animals Responding To Temperature - Migration
• Experiment - Animal Adaptation: Flight
• Paper Airplane - Drag Experiment
• Animals That Migrate and Hibernate
• Animal Hearing, Smelling, Animal Tasting and Seeing
• Amazing Animals With a Sense of Touch
• How We Use Plants
• Indigenous Use of Plants
• Plants Need Animals
• Experiment - Pollination
• Writing Code - Robotic Bees
• Research - What Is Harming Bees?
• Animals Need Plants
• Research - Favorite Foods
• How Food is Grown
• Locally Grown Food
• Environmental Challenges to Plants
• How Humans Can Help Plants
• Rules and Counts: Caring for Alberta’s Animals
• Replenishing Plants - Two Billion Trees
• Coding - Drawing Plants
• Indigenous Understanding of Animals and Life Cycles
• Métis Seasonal Rounds
• Unit test
• Answer pages for all activities

Energy Unit

Workbook

Some of the concepts that are covered:

• Forces - Push and Pull
• Push or Pull?
• Contact Force - Applied Force
• Experiment - Applied Force
• Contact Force - Frictional Force
• Experiment - Friction Car Ramp
• Experiment - Friction Force Power
• Contact Force – Tension, Spring Force
• Experiment - Popsicle Stick Catapult
• Spring Force - Yes or No?
• Newton’s First Law of Motion
• Experiment - First Law of Motion
• Inertia - First Law of Motion
• Balanced and Unbalanced Forces
• Forces From Different Directions
• Objects Changing Direction
• Force Diagram - Changing Directions
• Describing The Strength Of Force
• Protective Gear - Sports
• Introduction to If/Then Statements
• Coding - Else Statements
• Machines
• Wheel and Axel
• Activity - Clothespin Car
• Activity - Balloon Car
• Inclined Plane
• Calculating Mechanical Advantage - Inclined Plane
• Inclined Planes Around Us
• Experiment - Inclined Plane
• Levers
• Calculating Mechanical Advantage - Lever
• Experiment - Testing Different Levers
• Wedge
• Experiment - Wedges
• Indigenous Groups Using Simple Machines
• Inuit Scraping Tools: The Ulu
• Coding - Making Compound Machines
• If Then Conditional Statements - Activity
• Coding - Robot Lawn Mower
• Coding - Robot Assembly Lines
• Robots - Simple Machines
• Unit test
• Answer pages for all activities

Matter Unit

Workbook

Some of the concepts that are covered:

• Raw Materials
• Natural or Human Made Materials
• Activity – Where Physical Materials Come From
• Physical Change – Making Cotton and Cutting Materials
• Activity - Physical Change - Bending/Folding
• Making Paper - Physical/Chemical Changes
• Materials – Plastic, Wood and Paper Products
• Chemical Change - Making Plastic
• Making Natural Rubber
• Where Materials Used Now vs Then
• Indigenous Use of Trees and Rocks
• Wigwams and Longhouse Shelters
• Inukshuks
• Indigenous Use of Ice and Shells
• Indigenous Use of Plants and Animals
• The Importance of the Buffalo
• What is Matter?
• Particle Theory
• All About Liquids
• Experiment - Flowing Liquids
• Characteristics of Solids
• Experiment - Weight of Solid vs Liquid
• All About Gases
• Does Air Have Any Weight
• Changes in State - Physical Changes Involving Heat
• Melting Point and Boiling Point
• Lab Experiment - Melting
• Freezing Point and Freezing Rain
• Cryosphere - Glaciers
• Evaporation– Examples
• Lab Experiment - Evaporation
• Condensation – reading and experiment
• Sublimation and deposition
• Changes in States of Matter
• Water Cycle Diagram
• Experiment - Water Cycle
• Coding - Supercomputers Predicting Weather
• Investigate - Local Weather
• Writing Code - Weather Reports
• Unit test
• Answer pages for all activities

Google Lesson Slides

Grade 3 - Google Lesson Slides - Alberta Science Curriculum. This resource is packed with all the lessons you need to teach the Grade 3, Alberta Science Curriculum.

We have structured these lessons to follow the popular 3-Part Lesson format. By using these lessons, you will be provided with learning goals, discussion questions, relevant YouTube videos, interactive slides, exit cards, and more. Check out the variety of activities you'll receive below.

Part 1: Minds On!
- Learning Goals
- Discussion Questions

- Polls/Surveys

- Picture Prompts

- Jokes and Riddles

- Relevant Quotes

Part 2: Action!
- Interactive Activities

- Drag and Drop

- Fill in the Blanks

- Matching

- Sorting

- Polls/Surveys and Graphing

- Embedded YouTube Videos

Part 3: Consolidation

- Exit Cards

- 3-2-1 Reflections

- One Word Reflections

- Act It Out!

- Quick Draw

- One Sentence Summary

After purchasing this resource, you will be able to download copies of the Google Slides for the three different units to your Google Drive. From there, you can complete these lessons with your class, and/or assign these slides in Google Classroom.