Get your unit about food chains, protecting plants and animals and how plants and animals protect themselves ready in minutes. It includes all our resources about living 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:
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Food Chains Collaborative Poster: an introduction to food chains and looks at ways food chains can be represented.
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Food Chains: definition of food chains; how energy is transferred between plants and animals; ways that food chains are represented; herbivores, carnivores and omnivores; classifying animals according to what they eat.
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Plant and Animal Survival: ways that plants and animals are protected and respected; traditional ways First Nations, Métis and Inuit people have cared for plants and animals: seed keeping, controlled burning, fish ladders and hunting and gathering; definition and examples of stimuli for plants and animals such as temperature, light, water, food and chemicals; responding to stimuli; plant responses such as closing leaves, opening leaves, growing toward water and moving toward light; animal responses such as migration, hibernation, predator-prey or camouflage; interactions between plants and animals and how they depend on each other for survival.
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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 the water cycle, water safety, changes to matter, raw and processed materials.
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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.
