Earth Systems Unit Alberta Grade 3 Science Lessons and Activities | Paper and Digital

Get your unit about how surface changes tell us about the past ready in minutes. Students will learn about erosion, glaciers, Alberta's dinosaurs and so much more. It includes all our resources about earth systems for Grade 3 through activities, projects and complete lessons. Best of all, you don't have to plan anything because we did it for you!

This unit was designed specifically for Alberta Grade 3 science teachers. It includes:

• lesson plans with step-by-step instructions and options for modifications.
• student pages and templates.
• answer keys and suggested answers.
• photos of student examples.
• ideas for how to use this resource in the classroom, online, or a mix.
• digital versions of all the student reading and writing pages that use Google Slides. You must download the PDF files and use the access links in the files to get your digital copies.
• an alignment guide for Alberta Outcomes in each resource.
• a unit plan and a list of Alberta Science outcomes to help with planning.

These resources are included in this bundle:

• Surface Changes: erosion in Alberta: the hoodoos, meandering rivers, crumbling mountains, glaciers; drying up lakes; changes to lakes over time; scientific method: objective observations, collecting evidence; core samples, examining soil; soil habitats; the flow of water from glacier to ocean; how canyons are formed; Alberta’s main rivers: Peace, Saskatchewan, Athabasca and Bow; natural surface changes: volcanic activity, earthquakes, erosion, weather, glaciers, flooding, meteorites, landslides, plants and animals; human-caused surface changes: farming, building cities, bridges, dams, mining, dredging, land reclamation and deforestation.
• Alberta's Dinosaurs: how people discovered dinosaurs and what was believed before they were identified; the role of paleontologists; the study of paleontology; how fossils are excavated; what Alberta looked like while dinosaurs lived on Earth; Locations of dinosaur fossils and excavation sites in Alberta; locations of fossil displays in Alberta (such as the Royal Tyrell Museum and Phillip J. Currie Dinosaur Museum); dinosaurs that lived in Alberta (including Edmontosaurus, Albertosaurus, Nodosaurus, Tyrannosaurus and others); how fossils tell us about how the dinosaurs lived; an activity to mimic excavating fossils
• scientific method outcomes are embedded into the lessons

These lessons align with:

• Alberta Science Curriculum © 2022 Grade 3 (new outcomes)
  

These lessons support:

• any lesson about surface changes.
• any lesson about dinosaurs and fossils in Alberta.

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Ninja Note: This file is a ZIP file. It contains all the PDF files that contain each resource. Buyers need to download the ZIP and extract the PDF files to a computer. To access the digital versions, download the PDFs and use the links in the files.