3rd grade Instructional Guide

GRADE3 SCIENCE

McGraw Hill Unit 2: Life Cycles and Traits

Module: Animals

Lesson 1: Animal Life Cycles Lesson 2: Animal Traits Lesson 3: Animal Group Survival

CONCEPTS

SKILLS

● Changes that organisms go through during life cycle ● Patterns of traits that plants and animals inherit ● Environment affects traits of an organism ● Variations in traits affect ability of organism to survive and reproduce

● Develop and use models ● Describe ● Analyze and interpret data ● Construct an explanation

LEARNING PROGRESSIONS 1. Use models to describe patterns in animal life cycles 2. Explain patterns in inheritance of traits by animals

3. Explain how variations provide animal advantages for survival 4. Explain how some animals form groups that help them survive END OF UNIT COMPETENCY WITH LANGUAGE SUPPORT I can explain how animals inherit traits, and how some traits can affect their ability to survive and reproduce. Language Functions and Features: ● Ask and answer questions to clarify the phenomenon (What are similarities and differences between the parent and their offspring? ) ● Relating verbs to state attributes (have, belong to) ● Describe the phenomena with declarative statement ● Conditional clauses (If ____________ happens, I predict that ____________ will occur.)

FORMATIVE ASSESSMENT

● 3.2.1 Formative Assessment ● 3.2.2 Formative Assessment ● 3.2.3 Formative Assessment ● 3.2.4 Formative Assessment

VOCABULARY ● Birth

● Learned Trait