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Grade 3
Welcome to the Whittier Third Grade page!  Please click on the teacher links to the right to get information on your student's specific classroom.
 
Units of Inquiry
 
1.  Sharing the Planet: There is a relationship between conflict and the choices we make.
 
An inquiry into:
  • conflict - 4 types
  • actions of self and others-choices
  • resolution

 

2.  How We Organize Ourselves: Decisions are influenced by wants, needs, and availbable resources

An inquiry into:

  • goods and services
  • available resources
  • decision making

 

3.  Who We Are: Characteristics of living things affect their ability to survive

An inquiry into:

  • structure of living things
  • how traits impact survival
  • interconnectedness of traits and environment

 

4.  How We Express Ourselves:  Forms of energy enhandce our enjoyment of performance art.

An inquiry into:

  • Performing arts
  • Forms of energy: light and sound
  • artistic interpretations

 

5.  Where We Are in Place and Time: The present connects the past.

An inquiry into:

  • ancient civilizations
  • changes within civilizations
  • impact on later communities

 

6.  How the World Works:  Movement in space creates patterns we see on earth.

An inquiry into:

  • changes on earth
  • movement in space
  • reasons for patterns

 

 
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