Engaging lessons, activities, and videos to teach students in third grade all about inherited traits and heredity. Explore how animals and plants pass traits from parent to offspring with these engaging ideas!
Three ideas for using Google™ Jamboard in your classroom. Great for virtual learning or in-person learning!
For the past few weeks, we’ve been knee-deep in fractions. Now, in second grade fractions are “easy” you spend like a week on them and boom you move onto time. Third grade…? Yeah… not so much… we’re officially on our 4th week of fractions… yeah… Who knew there was soooo much you needed to know […]
Engaging inherited traits activities, lessons and experiments to teach inheritance and variation of traits in third grade science.
Are you looking for fun activities to help your 3rd graders learn about life cycles, inherited traits, and survival? Check out the hands-on activities in this blog post that bring these hard concepts to life in a kid-friendly way.
Try this fossil experiment with gummy candy and bread to learn about how fossils and sedimentary rocks are formed. Plus- it's edible!
Finding time for grammar lessons during your virtual reading and writing block
•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• THIS 2 PAGE DOCUMENT IS AN OVERVIEW AND DOES NOT CONTAIN ALL THIRD GRADE STANDARDS. YOU CAN FIND THE VERSION WITH ALL STANDARDS HERE: 3rd Grade Common Core Standards Visual Reference- All Common Core Standards •••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• This skill goal sheet is a two page resource that is a fun and very visual way for the kids and parents to see 3rd grade skills. There is one sheet for ELA and one sheet for math. It can be placed in data folders or homework folders as communication of the students learning. This can also be provided to parents as simple to understand resource at conferences, parent teacher conferences or open house to inform parents a basic idea what their child is expected to learn. Included in both color and black and white, with the common core standards listed in each box and a second version with only the images and text. Includes basic third grade skills such as: reading multi- syllable words reading with fluency retelling and comprehending stories multiplying telling time to the minute measuring reading and writing sight words adding and subtracting with fluency measuring volume writing personal narratives writing opinion pieces writing expository text Unfortunately, I was not able to fit all third grade standards because I wanted it to be simple and not overwhelming for parents and students but a great variety so students and parents can see what is expected. ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• You may also like: 3rd Grade Common Core Standards Visual Reference- All Common Core Standards- all 3rd grade common core standards I can statements in 6 page kid friendly format 3rd Grade I Can Statements: Each standard is listed on 1 page with an I can statement and a visual representation or an example. Perfect for posting in your classroom while teaching the standards. •3rd Grade Common Core I Can Statements or a bundle of all three of these products together at a discount price 3rd Grade I Can Statements Bundle •••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• You may also like the other grade level skill sheets found here: •Pre-Kindergarten Skills •Kindergarten Skills •First Grade Skill Sheet •2nd Grade Goals Sheet •4th Grade Goals Sheet ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••
Engaging lessons, activities, and videos to teach students in third grade all about inherited traits and heredity. Explore how animals and plants pass traits from parent to offspring with these engaging ideas!
Yes, it has it's own board on my Pinterest account. I used to be embarrassed by how fascinated and excited I was about classroom libraries. I paroused thrift stores, hit up retiring teachers, and planned my weekends around library book sales for months leading up to my first year in the classroom. By the time
What a fun way to kick off the start of the school year! Celebrate the number 3 and everything that is fabulous about 3rd Grade. .....so you are thinking, "Great, now where do I start when I am so overwhelmed getting my classroom ready?!?!?!" I totally get it, because even after 15 years of teaching I still find that crunch time right before school starts, a bit hairy. Here's some magical tips to make it easy-peasy. But before all the activities, just start with a good ole' wiggle party with Kool and the Gang singing "Celebration". Do you give snacks? How about snacks centered around the number 3? In the past, I have given "Officially a 3rd Grader" snacks of Goldfish crackers. Get it? O'fish'ally. However, this year I think I am going to give 3 Musketeers! 3 Musketeers = 3rd Grade. P.S. The labels are actually brag tags that I just repurposed! If you use brag tags, you can use them indifferent ways. (Think motivational posters, labels for holiday snacks or presents.) You can download these "Officially a 3rd Grader" Brag Tags for FREE! Use the number 3 in writing. If you would love to just print these activities out, visit here. This first tip checks off so many items on my to-do list. * Informally assess the students for writing abilities. * Put up a quick hallway or bulletin board display. * Set up procedures for my writing time. What can we write about? * 3 things I did this summer. * 3 things I want my teacher to know about me. * 3 of my favorite things. * Lists of 3 (favorite foods, hobbies, places...) I love these short little writing assignments because it helps me get to know my students, their personalities and their abilities. Use the number 3 in math. If you would love to just print these activities out, visit here. I like to be floating around the room during this time to get an idea of who has good number sense and who needs some extra support. Read more about how to help students who are struggling with number sense >> here <>> here <<
Is your school implementing a hybrid teaching program this year? A hybrid program refers to a plan where students will be learning in person for a portion of the week and then learning virtually for the remainder of the week. Some schools are choosing this plan because they are able to have smaller groups of
Hybrid teaching can be a challenge. But, there are also perks to a hybrid model that make this time in education a bit more bearable.
Are you looking for fun activities to help your 3rd graders learn about life cycles, inherited traits, and survival? Check out the hands-on activities in this blog post that bring these hard concepts to life in a kid-friendly way.
Whether you're teaching place value to kindergarteners, 1st or 2nd graders, there are some important and critical points you should know. Do I use pre-grouped or ungrouped manipulatives? What place value activities should be done? What's the progression in learning about place value? Read more about place value on my blog post. Sign up for the newsletter and get a FREE place value game activity! Read it now! #twoboysandadad #commoncoremath #math #placevalue #firstgrade #secondgrade #kindergarten
Engaging lessons, activities, and videos to teach students in third grade all about inherited traits and heredity. Explore how animals and plants pass traits from parent to offspring with these engaging ideas!
I've been thinking about what I want to do for homework next school year. This year, while teaching 3rd grade, they had a reading passa...
Close reads have just gotten trendier. In true 2020 fashion, the Close Reading resources with Mystery Pictures that you know and love are now going digital!
Get teaching with these force and motion experiments, activities and videos to use in the elementary classroom. This collection of force and motion activities and resources should help you cover the topics like texture, gravity, incline and simple machines. If you’re looking for helpful ideas and lesson plans - then this is the place to start! Do you need a refresher as the teacher before planning your simple machines unit? This simple machines facts page is an excellent (and easy) way to jog your memory. Force and Motion Experiments Let's plan some force and motion experiments for all elementary grades. Some of these can be adapted for
This post shares 15 read alouds for teaching story elements with brief summaries and the specific story element skills each read aloud addresses.
Using Interactive Digital Notebooks in the classroom with students is a great way to integrate content areas, support the common core state standards while providing a 21st-century tool for learning. Check out the different kinds of Interactive Digital Notebooks I use and how they are used. Then sign up to download a free SAMPLER! #twoboysandadad #googleslides #googleclassroom #digitalnotebooks #chromebooks #ipads
This blog post will walk you through the reasons for using digital choice boards. Plus, you can get a FREE fully editable digital board of your own!
Are you looking for fun activities to help your 3rd graders learn about life cycles, inherited traits, and survival? Check out the hands-on activities in this blog post that bring these hard concepts to life in a kid-friendly way.
Animal Research Projects for Elementary Students is perfect for first grade, second grade and third grade project based learning.
What in the world is a dodecahedron? I have to admit, these twelve-sided shapes have become one of the highlights of my curriculum! A dodecahedron is a twelve-sided, 3-D shape that displays all of the the learning we have done with our huge research project in third grade: Colorado Animals. We have done all sorts of other things in the past (see a few ideas HERE), but this has become the project that continues to make such a huge impact year after year. Not only does this display a wide variety of learning, the assembly and construction are so much fun! I have had siblings of former students so excited to make them since they have seen their older brother's or sister's hanging in their room for years. Filling Out A Dodecahedron The idea is simple, but does require some planning and a lot of cardstock! You will need twelve different pages to make your final project. We use my Animal Research Dodecahedron (found on TpT HERE), and I make a mix of lined and blank pages, along with a title page, an About the Author page, and some graphic organizers. We are pretty explicit as we go through each page. I will pass them out one at a time as we go through our research. The lined pages are reserved for nonfiction paragraphs that students write from their bullet pointed notes gathered from research. The blank pages are filled with illustrations to highlight key information or additional information not found in the paragraphs. We always begin with the title page and About the Author since those don't require much research and can ease the students into the concept of these pages. Every dodecahedron side has tabs that will need to be colored to really make the project pop. At the end, these tabs will be folded outward, glued and stapled, to create the 3-D shape for display. As the students create these pages, they cut out the circles and keep all twelve in their folders until it's time to assemble. Assembling The Dodecahedron Assembly Day is always so much fun! I have students make two piles of six pages each. They will be making "flower" shapes with these pages, so they will need to fold all of the tabs towards them before they start. They will decide on a "center" page and glue the rest of the five pages to each of the center's tabs. They will then go back and staple each tab together. The extra reinforcement will pay off, trust me! With the other stack of six circles, they will repeat the same process so that they have two "flowers" ready to go. Once they have these flowers, they can typically see how the dodecahedrons will come together. We next make "hats" or "bowls"-- up to you-- by gluing the nearby tabs together, making a half sphere with each flower. After gluing and stapling these sides, you will attach the spheres together and voila! Hole punch a tab and tie some string to it so you can hang these in your classroom. They always get rave reviews from other students, teachers, and parents! . . . I currently have several Dodecahedron Research Projects, including Animal Research, U.S. Presidents, and 50 States, in my TpT Store. I am working on adding more throughout the next few weeks, so be sure to follow my store for the latest updates. Happy researching!
By incorporating a few different animal adaptation activities, your students will gain a better understanding of this phenomenon. Several of these activities can be found in my phenomenon based Animal Adaptations unit. Explore all of the amazing resources and utilize them to engage your students in the fascinating and vast topic of animal adaptations!
The most engaging experiments, projects, and STEM challenges for 3rd grade science. An activity and idea for every single NGSS Science Standard in 3rd grade.
Engaging inherited traits activities, lessons and experiments to teach inheritance and variation of traits in third grade science.
3-LS3-1 Analyze and interpret data to provide evidence that plants and animals have traits inherited from parents and that variation of these
Teach students about Warm and Cold-Blooded Animals with an engaging, colorful sorting activity. This SORT for Inheritance of Animal Traits is aligned with the
"Starting next week, we will be moving from all virtual to hybrid instruction. Please refer to your guidebooks for next steps to be ready for the
I'm sharing three quick tips you can use to boost student engagement with the Wonders 3rd grade resources, so even the most reluctant reader will be excited to learn!
I'm sharing three quick tips you can use to boost student engagement with the Wonders 3rd grade resources, so even the most reluctant reader will be excited to learn!
Week 12 Reading Comprehension (C-12). A short passage about human impact on plants and animals. Cross-Curricular Focus: Life Science.
A huge list of educational websites for learning at home. A must-see list of online activities and resources for primary students and teachers planning remote learning during a school closure, illness, or during summer break.
Are you looking for fun activities to help your 3rd graders learn about life cycles, inherited traits, and survival? Check out the hands-on activities in this blog post that bring these hard concepts to life in a kid-friendly way.
Using Interactive Digital Notebooks in the classroom with students is a great way to integrate content areas, support the common core state standards while providing a 21st-century tool for learning. Check out the different kinds of Interactive Digital Notebooks I use and how they are used. Then sign up to download a free SAMPLER! #twoboysandadad #googleslides #googleclassroom #digitalnotebooks #chromebooks #ipads
