🔬 3rd Grade Science · Unit 3

Habitats and Survival

22 short narrated lessons in 4 chapters, each with pictures, a quiz with a hint and a second try, and an explanation for every answer.

Standards: 3-LS2-1 3-LS4-3 3-LS4-4 3-5-ETS1-1 3-LS4-1

3rd Grade Science · 5 units

What your child will learn

HerdsExplain how living in a herd helps animals like zebras stay safe from predators.
Wolf PacksExplain how wolves work together in a pack to hunt and raise pups.
Ant and Bee ColoniesDescribe how ants and bees share jobs in a colony to help the group survive.
Schools of FishExplain how swimming in a school helps fish avoid being eaten.
Living in Groups Review ReviewReview the ways living in groups helps animals survive.

What Is a Habitat?Explain that a habitat gives living things the food, water, shelter and space they need.
Who Can Live Here?Explain that in a habitat some organisms survive well, some less well, and some cannot survive at all.
Ecosystems and Food Webs AdventureDescribe how plants and animals in a habitat depend on each other for food.
A Polar Bear in the Desert?Use examples to explain why animals are suited to some habitats but not others.
Habitats Review ReviewReview what habitats provide and why organisms fit some habitats better than others.

Floods and DroughtsExplain how floods and droughts change a habitat and the plants and animals living there.
Pollution and HabitatsExplain how pollution can harm plants and animals in a habitat.
When People BuildDescribe how building roads and towns changes habitats for wildlife.
Helping WildlifeJudge solutions like wildlife bridges and replanting that help animals when environments change.
Changing Environments Review ReviewReview how environments change and how people can help living things survive.

What Is a Fossil?Explain that fossils are the remains or traces of living things from long ago, preserved in rock.
How Fossils FormDescribe how a plant or animal can be buried and slowly turned into a fossil.
What Fossils Tell UsUse fossils to explain what places were like long ago, like sea fossils found on mountains.
Dinosaur DetectivesDescribe what fossils teach us about dinosaurs and how they lived.
Gone But Not ForgottenExplain that some kinds of living things no longer exist and fossils show us what they were like.
Fossils Review ReviewReview what fossils are, how they form and what they tell us.
Unit 3 Test: Habitats and SurvivalShow what you learned in the whole unit (Living in groups, Habitats, When environments change, Fossils) by answering mixed questions.

From the lesson “Herds”

What is a herd?

Show the answer

A large group of animals that live and travel together. A herd is a large group of animals of the same kind that live and travel together.

Hint kids see after a wrong try: “Think about the zebras on the savanna.”

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Narrated lessons, pictures and quizzes for every grade from K to 8. Works offline.