Grade 3 Science North Dakota standards Standards

Access: Effective search strategies can locate information for intellectual or creative pursuits.

Use basic search strategies with teacher-selected online sources.

Create: It is important to both consume and produce information to be digitally literate.

Independently or collaboratively, create a digital product.

Data Creation & Analysis: Data can be collected, used, and presented with computing devices or digital tools.

Collect and organize data in various visual formats.

Development & Design: Design processes to create new, useful, and imaginative solutions to problems.

Independently or collaboratively create programs that use sequencing and looping.

Convert an algorithm into code.

Digital Identity: Responsibilities and opportunities of living, learning, and working in an interconnected digital world.

Recognize the permanence of their actions in the digital world.

Evaluate: Information sources can be evaluated for accuracy, currency, appropriateness, and purpose.

With guidance, compare and contrast resources based on content and the author’s purpose.

Hardware & Software: Devices, hardware, and software work together as a system to accomplish tasks.

Identify the components and the basic functions of a computer system including peripherals and external storage features.

Independently use a computing device to perform a variety of tasks.

Recognize users have different technology needs and preferences.

Impacts of Computing: Past, present, and possible future impact of technology on society.

Identify technologies that have changed the world.

Intellectual Property: Respect for the rights and obligations of using and sharing intellectual property.

Define copyright.

With guidance, identify the elements of a citation.

Explain piracy and plagiarism.

Networks & Internet: Networks link computers and devices locally and around the world allowing people to access and communicate information.

Recognize that information is sent and received over physical or wireless paths.

Problem Solving & Algorithms: Strategies for understanding and solving problems.

Solve a task by breaking it into smaller pieces.

Debug a program that includes sequencing.

Responsible Use: Respect and dignity in virtual communities.

Identify and discuss positive and negative uses of technology and information and their impact.

Recognize similarities and differences between in-person bullying and cyberbullying.

Develop a code of conduct, explain, and practice appropriate behavior and responsibilities while participating in an online community.

Comply with Acceptable Use Policies.

Safety & Ethics: There are both positive and negative impacts in social and ethical behaviors for using technology.

Identify problems that relate to inappropriate use of computing devices and networks. (CYSEC)

Keep authentication methods confidential and be proactive if they are compromised. (CYSEC)

Recognize that data-collection technology can be used to track navigation online. (CYSEC)

Identify the difference between public and private information. (CYSEC)

Social Interactions: Technology facilitates collaboration with others.

Recognize that there are various collaborative technologies.

With guidance, use collaborative technology to seek out diverse perspectives.

Troubleshooting: Strategies for solving technology system problems.

With guidance, apply basic troubleshooting strategies.

Biological Evolution: Unity and Diversity

Ecosystems: Interactions, Energy, and Dynamics

Heredity: Inheritance and Variation of Traits

Engineering & Technology

Earth and Human Activity

Earth's Systems

From Molecules to Organisms: Structures and Processes

Motion and Stability: Forces and Interactions

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

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

Evaluate the feasibility of a design solution that reduces the impacts of a weather-related hazard.

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.

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

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

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 the environment can influence the expression of traits.

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.

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

Make observations and metric measurements of an object's motion to prove that a pattern can be used to predict future motion.

Ask questions to determine cause and effect relationships of static electricity 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.