Third Grade Scope and Sequence

Grade 3 Curriculum Guide Social Studies * 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 Language Arts * 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 * Post writing skills: editing and proofreading * Increasing indexing skills Health and Safety * 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