Grade 3 Science Oregon standards Standards

Physical Science

Life Science

Engineering, Technology, and the Application of Science

Earth & Space Science

Make a claim about the merit of a solution to a problem caused when the environment changes and the types of plants and animals that live there may change.

Civics

Civic Engagement (C.CE)

Identify a local public issue and describe ways individuals and groups can engage with decision-makers to have influence in the civic life of their communities.

Democratic Principles (C.DP)

Explain the democratic principle of a smaller voting group (the minority) having rights that the larger voting group (the majority) cannot take away.

Identity, Roles, & Responsibilities (C.IR)

Explain the differences between allies and bystanders exploring how individuals can promote democratic values such as liberty, equality, and justice when they see someone targeted for who they are.

Recognize that people's identities and individual experiences can lead to different interpretations of situations and events.

Explain how a community relies on active civic participation and identify opportunities for student participation in local and regional issues.

Describe the responsibilities of people in their community and state.

Political Institutions (C.PI)

Identify state offices, leaders, and their functions.

Economics

Earning, Saving, and Spending (E.ES)

Consider the effect of individual financial decisions on personal, community, regional, and world resources.

Explain the purpose of taxes in supporting examples of public goods.

Incentives, Choice, and Consumer Behavior (E.IC)

Explain the role of advertising and peer pressure in decision-making.

Explain opportunity cost and how it influences buying decisions.

Micro and Macro Economics (E.MI)

Identify the relationship between supply and demand in setting the price of goods and services in the marketplace.

Analyze the effect of government and business decisions on personal and community resources.

Specialization, Trade, and Interdependence (E.ST)

Investigate examples of specialization and economic interdependence in the local community.

With prompting and support, ask and answer questions about buying, selling, or trading something and explain how people make choices about the things they need and want.

Earth's Systems

Represent data in tables and graphical displays to describe typical weather conditions expected during a particular season.

Obtain and combine information to describe climates in different regions of the world.

Earth and Human Activity

Make a claim about the merit of a design solution that reduces the impacts of a weather-related hazard.

Engineering Design

Define a simple design problem reflecting a need or a want that includes specified criteria for success and constraints on materials, time, or cost.

Generate and compare multiple possible solutions to a problem based on how well each is likely to meet the criteria and constraints of the problem.

Plan and carry out fair tests in which variables are controlled and failure points are considered to identify aspects of a model or prototype that can be improved.

Geography

Geographic Reasoning (G.GR)

Distinguish between physical, political, cultural, and thematic maps of Oregon and the United States.

Use lines of latitude and longitude on multiple types of maps, globes, and images to locate and describe tribal lands, environmental regions, and counties of Oregon and the greater Pacific Northwest.

Human Environmental Interaction (G.HE)

Describe and compare how the physical and human geography of different Oregon regions affects the attributes of local communities.

Identify and analyze Oregon’s natural resources and describe how people in Oregon and other parts of the world use them.

Human Interaction and Interconnection (G.HI)

Compare and contrast the diverse aspects of culture represented in a community, such as individuals, events, songs, symbols, and celebrations of community.

Migration and Movement (G.MM)

Evaluate multiple theories on the populating and human movement in North and South America using archaeological evidence for the origins of people in North America, including in the Pacific Northwest.

Investigate the causes behind global migration, distinguishing between voluntary relocation and forced displacement.

History

Conflict and Cooperation (H.CC)

Describe how individuals and groups in the local community and region have functioned as changemakers for equity, equality, and freedom against bias, discrimination, racism, and oppression.

Cause and Effect (H.CE)

Describe how the inclusion or exclusion of individuals, social and ethnic groups, has shaped events and development of the local community and region.

Continuity and Change (H.CH)

Use primary and secondary sources, including conducting interviews, to research the history of the local community or region.

Create a timeline of noteworthy events to better understand the historical and contemporary events of the local community or region.

Communities and Pluralism (H.CP)

Identify what individuals and families bring with them when they move to a different place.

Describe how the identity of the local community shaped its history and compare it to other communities in the region.

From Molecules to Organisms: Structures and Processes

Develop models to describe that organisms have unique and diverse life cycles but all have in common birth, growth, reproduction, and death.

Ecosystems: Interactions, Energy, and Dynamics

Construct an argument that some animals form groups that help members survive.

Heredity: Inheritance and Variation of Traits

Analyze and interpret data to provide evidence that plants and animals have traits inherited from parents and that variation of these traits exists in a group of similar organisms.

Use evidence to support the explanation that traits can be influenced by the environment.

Biological Evolution: Unity and Diversity

Analyze and interpret data from fossils to provide evidence of the organisms and the environments in which they lived long ago.

Use evidence to construct an explanation for how the variations in characteristics among individuals of the same species may provide advantages in surviving, finding mates, and reproducing.

Construct an argument with evidence that in a particular habitat some organisms can survive well, some survive less well, and some cannot survive at all.

Motion and Stability: Force and Interactions

Plan and conduct an investigation to provide evidence of the effects of balanced and unbalanced forces on the motion of an object.

Make observations and/or measurements of an object's motion to provide evidence that a pattern can be used to predict future motion.

Ask questions to determine cause and effect relationships of electric or magnetic interactions between two objects not in contact with each other.

Define a simple design problem that can be solved by applying scientific ideas about magnets.