Science Information Bulletin for the Elementary Level: Grade 3

Grade 3

Core Unit: Animals

chapter 14: "Animal Adaptations" chapter 15: "Animal Protection"
chapter 15: "Animal Protection"

stories: "Gluscabi and the Game Animals" "Awi Usdi, the Little Deer" activities: "Vored to Death" "A Journey with the Abenakis" "Predator and Prey" "Caring for Animals: Inside and Outside" "Helping a Species In Need": "Gluscabi and the Game Animals"; "Awi Usdi, the Little Deer"
activities: "Vored to Death" "A Journey with the Abenakis" "Predator and Prey" "Caring for Animals: Inside and Outside" "Helping a Species In Need": "Vored to Death"; "A Journey with the Abenakis"; "Predator and Prey"; "Caring for Animals: Inside and Outside"; "Helping a Species In Need"

"Habitat Lap Sit" "Litter We Know" "Environmental Barometer" "The Thicket Game" "Seeing is Believing, or The Eyes Have It" "Lobster in Your Lunchbox" "Shrinking Habitat" "What Did Your Lunch Cost Wildlife?" "Improving Wildlife Habitat in Your Community"
"Litter We Know" "Environmental Barometer" "The Thicket Game" "Seeing is Believing, or The Eyes Have It" "Lobster in Your Lunchbox" "Shrinking Habitat" "What Did Your Lunch Cost Wildlife?" "Improving Wildlife Habitat in Your Community"
"Environmental Barometer" "The Thicket Game" "Seeing is Believing, or The Eyes Have It" "Lobster in Your Lunchbox" "Shrinking Habitat" "What Did Your Lunch Cost Wildlife?" "Improving Wildlife Habitat in Your Community"
"The Thicket Game" "Seeing is Believing, or The Eyes Have It" "Lobster in Your Lunchbox" "Shrinking Habitat" "What Did Your Lunch Cost Wildlife?" "Improving Wildlife Habitat in Your Community"
"Seeing is Believing, or The Eyes Have It" "Lobster in Your Lunchbox" "Shrinking Habitat" "What Did Your Lunch Cost Wildlife?" "Improving Wildlife Habitat in Your Community"
"Lobster in Your Lunchbox" "Shrinking Habitat" "What Did Your Lunch Cost Wildlife?" "Improving Wildlife Habitat in Your Community"
"Shrinking Habitat" "What Did Your Lunch Cost Wildlife?" "Improving Wildlife Habitat in Your Community"
"What Did Your Lunch Cost Wildlife?" "Improving Wildlife Habitat in Your Community"
"Improving Wildlife Habitat in Your Community"

chapter 1: "Animals of Long Ago", if not used in the grade 2 optional unit

chapter 1: "Animals" chapter 2: "Animals Are Important"
chapter 2: "Animals Are Important"

Have your class become involved in Operation Lifeline. Operation Lifeline is a project of the World Wildlife Fund. For a one-time nominal fee, a teacher receives a 150-page activity book, a forty page teacher's guide, a large endangered species poster, and a regular Lifeline newsletter.

Units 1 - 3 of the activity book contain activities and information, appropriate for the grade 3 level, regarding the protection of endangered species. Units 4 - 6 are useful in the grade 6 core unit on Ecosystems. For more information contact:

Operation Lifeline
60 St. Clair Ave. E.
Suite 201
Toronto, ON
M4T 1N5
(416) 923-8173

Core Unit: Earth

chapter 8: "The Earth Beneath You"

story: "Tunka-Shila, Grandfather Rock" activities: "Rock to Rock" "Rock Charades" "Making Soil"
activities: "Rock to Rock" "Rock Charades" "Making Soil": "Rock to Rock"; "Rock Charades"; "Making Soil"

chapter 9: "The Changing Earth" chapter 10: "The Earth's Resources"
chapter 10: "The Earth's Resources"

Rocks, Sand, and Soil

A kit containing a representative sampling of the rocks of Saskatchewan may be obtained from Saskatchewan Energy and Mines. For availability and price contact:

Publications Branch
Saskatchewan Energy and Mines
1914 Hamilton Street
Regina, SK
S4P 4V4

Weather balloons, for use in activity #10 of the Curriculum Guide, are available from science supply centers. One source is:

Efston Science
3350 Dufferin Street
Toronto, ON
M6A 3A4

Core Unit: Properties of Matter

chapter 1: "Properties of Matter" chapter 2: "Changing Matter"
chapter 2: "Changing Matter"

chapter 5: "All About Matter"

Water and Ice

Core Unit: The Solar System

chapter 5: "Our Spaceship, Earth" chapter 6: "Earth's Moon" chapter 7: "The Solar System and Beyond"
chapter 6: "Earth's Moon" chapter 7: "The Solar System and Beyond"
chapter 7: "The Solar System and Beyond"

stories: "Spring Defeats Winter" "How Grandmother Spider Stole the Sun" activities: "Seasons of the Earth: Our Tilted Planet" "Moon Walker" "Hot Moon, Cold Moon" "Daylight -- Night" "Reading the Moon" "A Stroll to the Sun": "Spring Defeats Winter"; "How Grandmother Spider Stole the Sun"
activities: "Seasons of the Earth: Our Tilted Planet" "Moon Walker" "Hot Moon, Cold Moon" "Daylight -- Night" "Reading the Moon" "A Stroll to the Sun": "Seasons of the Earth: Our Tilted Planet"; "Moon Walker"; "Hot Moon, Cold Moon"; "Daylight -- Night"; "Reading the Moon"; "A Stroll to the Sun"

chapter 11: "The Weather Around You" chapter 12: "Sun, Moon, and Planets"
chapter 12: "Sun, Moon, and Planets"

A poster, "Six Seasons of the Woodland Cree", is available from:

Learning Resource Center
La Ronge Indian Band
La Ronge S0J 1L0

Get a chart of the constellations and the planets in the night sky for the month(s) during which this unit is being used. One source is the NSTA journal Science and Children, which has a monthly feature called "Sky Calendar". A subscription to "Sky Calendar" itself can be obtained from:

Abrams Planetarium
Michigan State University
East Lansing, MI
48824

Optional Unit: Fire and Fuels

chapter 4: "Fire and Fuels"

Optional Unit: Heating and Cooling

chapter 3: "Heating and Cooling"

chapter 6: "Heat and Light"

chapter 7: "Heat Energy"

Optional Unit: Plant Structures and Adaptations

chapter 12: "Plant and Plant Responses" chapter 13: "Plant Adaptations"
chapter 13: "Plant Adaptations"

activity: "Seed Need"

chapter 3: "Seed Plants" chapter 4: "Plants Are Important"
chapter 4: "Plants Are Important"

chapter 4: "How Living Things Survive"

Optional Unit: Simple Machines

activities 6, 7, and 8

chapter 6: "Force, Work, and Energy" chapter 7: "Machines"
chapter 7: "Machines"

Constructions

Optional Unit: Sound

unit 3: "Forces in Action"

chapter 8: "Sound"