Grade 3 - Alberta Science - FULL YEAR BUNDLE - NEWLY UPDATED 2026

Updated in 2026 - Grade 3 - Alberta Science Curriculum – FULL YEAR BUNDLE! This resource covers all outcomes in the NEW 2023 Alberta Science Curriculum.

GOOGLE CLASSROOM VERSION - PDF INCLUDED! This gives you the ability to print worksheets as well as distribute a digital copy of the resource to your students on Google Classroom.

Check out each of the strands below to learn more about the resources included in this bundle.

Matter

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

Energy (Forces)

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

Earth Systems (Changing Earth)

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 - Plants and Animals

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

This is a comprehensive bundle that will save you hours of planning! It has been tested and found effective in helping students achieve the learning outcomes in the science curriculum.

Answer pages for all slides/sheets are included!