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🔬 3rd Grade · Science3-ESS3-1Unit 4: Weather & climate

Weather hazards

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🎯 Objective: Students evaluate designs that reduce the impact of weather hazards.

Lesson outline

  1. Floods and hurricanes.
  2. Design a solution.
  3. Present.
  4. Exit: your solution.

Lesson 3 of 3 in this unit. In the Lesson Planner this lesson takes 1–3 class periods depending on your timetable: day 1 introduce & model, then practice, small-group reteach and a quick check.

📐 Standard

3-ESS3-1

Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS), Grade 3 — typical US unit order

🏁 Unit goals

  • Represent weather data to describe typical conditions
  • Describe climates around the world
  • Evaluate designs that reduce weather hazards

✅ Check for understanding

End with the exit ticket in the outline. Sort answers into got it / almost / not yet and start the next lesson with a 5-minute reteach for the “not yets”.

Practice & resources on Thinkabara

🦫 Encyclopedia: Science🦫 Kids encyclopedia⚡ Capy Live class quiz

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More lessons in “Weather & climate”

  1. Weather data
  2. Climates of the world
  3. Weather hazards

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