3rd Grade - Typical Course of Study
· Holidays and folk customs · Native Americans · Explorers and pioneers · Appreciation of different cultures, races, religions · History and development of local community · Community helpers · Consumers and producers · Sources of food and clothing · Shelters of animals and people |
· History and development of transportation · History and development of communication · Citizenship and social responsibility · Basic human needs and wants · Local geography and topography · U. S. geography and regions · The continents · Flat maps and globes |
Science
· Animal helpers · Dinosaurs · Life cycle · Plants and animals of the desert · Plants and animals of the sea · Common birds, trees, flowers · Forest plants · Conservation of plants and animals · Weather and climate · Earth's changing surface · Magnets and electricity |
· Compass · Gravity · Light and color · Energy and its sources · Force and work · Machines · Moon and stars · Earth satellites · Scientific method and scientific inquiry |
· Silent reading · Reading prose and poetry aloud · Oral presentations: reporting experiences orally with accuracy · Alphabetizing through the third letter of a word · Dictionary skills · Developing word-attack methods · Synonyms, antonyms, homonyms · Spelling |
· Beginning cursive writing · Concept of paragraph · Using period, comma, question mark, apostrophe, quotation marks · Writing short, original stories and poems · Postwriting skills: editing and proofreading · Increasing indexing skills |
· Care of eyes and ears · Dental health · Proper balance of activities · Healthful leisure activities · Prevention and control of diseases · Parts of the body · Nutrition |
· Health with relation to food, shelter, clothing · School and community health services · Home safety hazards · Safety in the community · Simple first aid |
Mathematics
· Reading and writing numbers to 5 places · Beginning Roman numerals · Rounding numbers · Positive and negative numbers in daily life · Simple fractions and equivalents · Properties of one · Numeration systems · Addition and subtraction facts to 25 · Multiplication and division facts to 100 |
· Perimeter, area, volume · Geometric constructions · Similar and congruent figures · Properties of solid figures · Customary and metric measurement · Time to 1- and 5-minute measures · Estimation of outcomes · Problems-solving analysis · Word problems · Charts and graphs |