3rd Grade Earth Sciences Projects

This Plant Observation Journal is designed to help preschool, kindergarten, and grade 1 and 2 students document and learn about plant growth in a fun and educational way.

The journal will serve as a teaching tool for teachers to incorporate into lesson plans, encourage observation skills and critical thinking in students, and foster meaningful conversations about nature between parents and their children.

Additionally, it will promote hands-on learning, creativity, and a lifelong love for nature, making it a valuable resource for all involved in the preschooler's learning journey.

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If you want to explore non-fiction text structures for reading comprehension, this "What Was the Ice Age?" book report and book study project digital product for 3rd and 4th-grade students is perfect. It enhances non-fiction reading comprehension, book study, and report writing skills!

This resource includes:

• Comprehensive Google Slides digital lesson for reading comprehension and book report writing support
• 9-page printable PDF book report flip book template

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NOTE: You need a (free) Google account to access the digital lesson, and you will need access to the book "What Was The Ice Age?" to complete the digital and printable activities.

Students will dive into the historical context of the ice age, gaining a deeper understanding of this significant event in world history. The digital lesson guides students through key facts, timelines, and the impact of these events.

How to use this resource:

• Have students read the book, "What Was The Ice Age?"
• Print the book report flip book template
• Open and present the Google Slides digital lesson
• Follow the intuitive prompts, which will take you through each step of the book report. For example, if it's time to work on the "facts" page, there is a series of multiple-choice questions on specific facts detailed in the text that will help refresh the students' memories and comprehension. Then students can fill in the facts they found most interesting.
• Have fun guessing the mystery puzzle between each section of the book report!

The printable PDF book report flip book template provides creative book report ideas, such as summarizing the events, using critical thinking skills, and creating a timeline. It can be used with any non-fiction book. Students will also use a book review template to evaluate the ice age's significance. Overall, this project offers an engaging way for students to explore non-fiction text structures while learning about a crucial event in history.

The non-fiction book report flip book pages include:

   ✏book title info

   ✏rating & review

   ✏vocabulary

   ✏facts

   ✏text ideas

   ✏series of events

   ✏making life connections

   ✏what I learned

   ✏questions I have

   ✏setting & subject

   ✏interesting event

   ✏important event

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In this product, students will make a food chain mobile. They will cut out the sun, producers, and consumers cards, they will then make 3 mobiles. They will make a mobile that includes a sun, producer, and carnivore, a mobile that includes a sun, producer, and herbivore, and a mobile that includes a sun, producer, and omnivore. Students can work individually or with a partner or a group to complete this activity. Students will then research if their animal is a carnivore, herbivore, and omnivore and will label the consumer.

You may also be interested in the individual products, but if you buy the bundle you save $2.00:

Food Chains and Food Webs Adapted Notes and Project Templates:

https://www.TeachShare.com/Product/Food-Chains-and-Food-Webs-Adapted-Notes-and-Project-Templates-Bundle-11002166

Flow of Energy Adapted Notes and Review:

https://www.TeachShare.com/Product/Flow-of-Energy-Adapted-Notes-and-Review-10990067

Food Chains Adapted Notes and Review:

https://www.TeachShare.com/Product/Food-Chains-Adapted-Notes-and-Review-10991863

Food Webs Adapted Notes and Review:

https://www.TeachShare.com/Product/Food-Webs-Adapted-Notes-and-Review-10991926

Food Chains and Food Webs Project:

https://www.TeachShare.com/Product/Food-Chains-and-Food-Webs-Project-10992004

Food Chain Mobile Project:

https://www.TeachShare.com/Product/Food-Chain-Mobile-Template-10992054

Food Chains and Food Webs File Folder Activity

https://www.TeachShare.com/Product/Food-Chains-and-Food-Webs-File-Folder-Activity-10995671

Make reviewing the layers of the earth fun with this engaging hands-on 3D diorama science craft project! Students learn about earth layers and then decorate a shoe box based on what they learned! Students are responsible for decorating the box and putting a creative scene inside that represents the layers of the earth. Students love it when they get to do projects and make their learning come to life!

Here’s what you’ll get:

• colorful earth layers
• black and white earth layers
• black and white labels
• rubric for easy grading
• research page for students to record their learning
• planning page for students to map out how they want their diorama to look

What is a diorama?

A diorama is a three-dimensional scene built to illustrate a topic. Dioramas are small scenes created with layers of materials. A diorama can be made out of a shoe box or similar box that includes a variety of information and pictures about a topic.

Students create a diorama by cutting, coloring, painting, and gluing pieces inside the box to create a model that shows a situation, such as a historical event or animals in their natural environment. Students can be encouraged to add real features such as grass, sand, sticks, etc.

The dioramas do not come with specific assembly instructions. Students should learn about the layers of the earth first, and use the pieces within this resource to creatively build their own unique diorama! This is a fun way for students to learn and get hands-on with the lesson/topic.

Prep is quick and easy... print the pieces on cardstock for durability and let your students explore the water as an enrichment activity to your lesson plan.

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Save 20% on 15 books from the What Is? and What Was? book series. Each one includes a book report flipbook template and a comprehensive reading comprehension digital lesson (with a built-in reward system).

The books in the series include:

1. What Was the Age of Exploration?
2. What Was the Children's Blizzard of 1888?
3. What Was the Wild West?
4. What Was the Donner Party?
5. What Was the Ice Age?
6. What Was the Boston Tea Party?
7. What Was Ellis Island?
8. What Was the Great Depression?
9. What Was the Plague?
10. What Was the Titanic
11. What Were the Salem Witch Trials?
12. What is Climate Change?
13. What is the Constitution?
14. What is the Coronavirus Disease COVID-19?
15. What is the Women's Rights Movement?

This product is easy to use:

1. Print the template (same template for every book in this series), cut along the dotted line on each page, then staple the top to create the flipbooks (students can do this on their own).
2. Read the book (independently or as a class/group)
3. Click through the Google reading comprehension digital lesson (no-prep required!)
4. Students fill out the template independently/homework or as a class or group. In my class, we work on the book report template together through each section of the lesson.

The sections of the reading comprehension digital lesson and 9-page book report template include (along with the built-in reward system):

• book title info
• rating & review
• vocabulary
• facts
• text ideas
• series of events
• making life connections
• what I learned
• questions I have
• setting/subject
• interesting event
• important event

In this product, students will have the opportunity to complete 2 projects - a food chain and and food web project. Students will cut out the pictures and will glue them on a poster board to make a good chain and a food web. When students have completed the food chain and food web project, there are 2 rubrics that will rate the students on each project. Rubric categories include the food chain/web display, food chain/web labeling, and staying on task.

You may also be interested in the following:

Food Chains and Food Webs Adapted Notes and Project Templates:

https://www.TeachShare.com/Product/Food-Chains-and-Food-Webs-Adapted-Notes-and-Project-Templates-Bundle-11002166

Flow of Energy Adapted Notes and Review:

https://www.TeachShare.com/Product/Flow-of-Energy-Adapted-Notes-and-Review-10990067

Food Chains Adapted Notes and Review:

https://www.TeachShare.com/Product/Food-Chains-Adapted-Notes-and-Review-10991863

Food Chain Mobile Project:

https://www.TeachShare.com/Product/Food-Chain-Mobile-Template-10992054

Food Webs Adapted Notes and Review:

https://www.TeachShare.com/Product/Food-Webs-Adapted-Notes-and-Review-10991926

Food Chains and Food Webs File Folder Activity

https://www.TeachShare.com/Product/Food-Chains-and-Food-Webs-File-Folder-Activity-10995671