3rd Grade Physics Resources
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LESSON PLANS
Can Sound Travel Through Things?
Through simple experimentation, students will learn how sound waves function and travel.SubjectsSciencePhysicsSound (Acoustics) -
WORKSHEETS
Renewable and Non-renewable Energy
Use this educational worksheet to teach children about non-renewable and renewable energy resources. In this activity,…Subjects:ScienceEcologyEarth Science -
LESSON PLANS
Observing Sound Waves
Students will conduct an experiment that will allow them to see sound waves in action.SubjectsSciencePhysicsSound (Acoustics) -
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High Sounds & Low Sounds
Try a printable science activity that focuses on high and low sounds.Subjects:SciencePhysicsSound (Acoustics) -
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Shadow Drawings
Try a printable science activity that focuses on understanding shadows.Subjects:SciencePhysicsLight and Optics -
LESSON PLANS
Inertia in Motion
Through experimentation, students will learn about the first law of motion, including inertia, force, and friction.SubjectsSciencePhysicsNewton's Laws -
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My Compass and Magnet Observations
Students make observations and draw conclusions using compasses and magnets.Subjects:SciencePhysicsMagnetism -
GRAPHIC ORGANIZERS
KWL Chart - Sound, Heat, and Light
Introduce your students to a KWL chart that is a graphic organizer for recording what students Know, Want to know, and…Subjects:SciencePhysicsSound (Acoustics) -
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Potential and Kinetic Energy Quiz
Introduce your students to a lab that evaluates students' understanding of potential, radiant, and kinetic energy.…Subjects:SciencePhysicsMotion and Energy (Mechanics) -
EDITOR'S COLLECTIONS
Newton's Laws Printable Book (3-6)
Browse this printable book of teacher resources that provides science activities using readily available materials.…Subjects:SciencePhysicsNewton's Laws -
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Electricity Wordsearch
Try a printable science activity that focuses on electricity vocabulary.Subjects:VocabularyPhysicsLanguage Arts and Writing -
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Make an Electromagnet
Try a printable science activity that focuses on facts about electromagnets.Subjects:SciencePhysicsElectricity and Magnetism (Electromagnetism) -
LESSON PLANS
How Do Different Surfaces Affect the Momentum of Marbles?
Help your pupils better understand momentum with this hands-on activity. Pupils are challenged to use various equations…SubjectsSciencePhysicsMotion and Momentum -
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Investigate Activity: Changing States of Matter
Students observe water in solid and liquid states, and make inferences about moisture on the outside of a jar of ice.…Subjects:SciencePhysicsEnergy and Matter -
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Roller Coasters
Build a miniature roller coaster in order to observe the effects of gravity and momentum.Subjects:PhysicsScienceEngineering -
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Simple Machine Match
Try a printable science activity that focuses on identifying simple machines.Subjects:SciencePhysicsMachines -
LESSON PLANS
The Tablecloth Trick and Inertia
Students will learn about inertia and by performing the tablecloth trick.SubjectsSciencePhysicsInertia -
WORKSHEETS
Laws of Motion
Introduce your students to a lab that evaluates students' understanding of Newton's three laws of motion. By observing…Subjects:SciencePhysicsNewton's Laws -
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Forces, Machines, and Work: Vocabulary
Distribute a printable set of vocabulary words related to forces, machine, and work.Subjects:Force and MotionVocabularyMachines -
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Light
Try a printable science activity that focuses on types of light: transparent, opaque, and translucent.Subjects:SciencePhysicsLight and Optics -
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Electromagnetic Fields
The two sheets in this activity have a reference article, data chart, and questions to enhance theSubjects:ScienceElectricity and Magnetism (Electromagnetism)Physics -
ACTIVITIES
Newton's Games: Balloon Car Activity
This worksheet supplements the FutureFit Project Newton's Games. It should be used in conjunction with the activities…Subjects:ScienceForce and MotionPhysics -
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The Ferris Wheel
Try a printable science activity that focuses on wheels as simple machines.Subjects:MachinesInventionsVocabulary -
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High or Low?
Try a printable science activity that focuses on using a tuning fork.Subjects:Sound (Acoustics)PhysicsScience
