Art - Grade 3
Art - Grade 3 (1 of 1) explores the tools, elements, and principles of visual art from different cultures. The course explores interpreting messages in art forms such as drawing, sketching, architecture, painting, illustration, sculpture, photography, and textile art. Topics include lines, shapes, patterns, balance, movement, rhythm, mood, repetition, expression, emphasis, theme, and solving design issues. The course projects and portfolio encourage evaluation of personal, professional, and community art.
Foundations in Reading
Foundations in Reading (1 of 1) reviews reading skills that build a strong foundation for effective reading. Topics include: a review of sounds in words by pronouncing initial, medial vowel, and final phonemes by segmenting and blending phonemes. The course begins with reading one-syllable words and moves onto multi-syllable words, practice decoding words in isolation and in the context of sentences, poems, stories, as well as informational texts. Reading fluency focuses on reading for accuracy, rate, expression, purpose, and understanding.
Health Education - Grade 3
Health Education - Grade 3 (1 of 1) explores physical, emotional, intellectual, and social well-being through the exploration of health and safety behaviors. Topics include human growth and development; disease prevention; good hygiene; healthy habits; food and nutrition; physical activity; general health; health care; health effects of alcohol, tobacco, and drugs; interpersonal communication; and personal safety. The course includes two projects: “Make Decisions about Your Health” and “Set Short-Term Health Goals.”
Introduction to Computers
Introduction to Computers (1 of 1) provides essential background knowledge and practical instruction in the use of computers. Topics include how technology has shaped people and the world, how to be a safe and responsible digital citizen, and how to communicate and collaborate using digital tools. The course targets beginner-level skills in computer troubleshooting, keyboard use, word processing, slideshow software, spreadsheets, and basic internet skills.
Mathematics - Grade 3
Mathematics - Grade 3 (2 of 2) explores operations such as multiplication and division, arithmetic patterns, geometry, fractions, perimeter, area, time, measurement, data, and finances. Topics include explaining arithmetic patterns using properties of operations, identifying types of geometric lines, composing and decomposing fractions, generating equivalent fractions, calculating the perimeter of polygons, and using multiplication to solve for area. Topics will also include reading and writing time to the nearest minute, measuring length in customary units, interpreting and representing data on a variety of graphs, understanding concepts in personal finance, and measuring liquid volume, mass, and temperature.
Physical Education - Grade 3
Physical Education - Grade 3 (1 of 2) provides instruction on a variety of movements and physical activities. The course covers running, skipping, hopping, and leaping, with an emphasis on good form, balance and gymnastic sequences. Topics include the effects of physical activity on the body, as well as the importance of good nutrition, quality food, reading nutrition labels, ways to strengthen specific muscle groups, the importance of warming up and cooling down, as well as instruction in basketball.
Physical Education - Grade 3
Physical Education - Grade 3 (2 of 2) explores health-related and skill-related activities to help improve fitness level and performance in sports such as table tennis, baseball, volleyball, and soccer, as well as different types of dances. Topics include a review of good sportsmanship, following rules, and how physical activity with others can create positive social interactions.
Science - Grade 3
Science - Grade 3 (2 of 2) investigates plants and animals, and how traits are passed from parent to offspring. It examines how plants are sorted into flowering and nonflowering categories. Animal characteristics are described and sorted into major groups based on key characteristics. Topics include climate and weather, our solar system, and natural resources.
Science - Grade 3
Science - Grade 3 (1 of 2) examines the states, properties, and changes that happen to matter. It also explores the forms of energy, investigates concepts of electricity and magnetism, and describes motion and forces. Knowledge of all these concepts lead to exploring the technological advancements that improve everyone's lives.
Social Studies - Grade 3
Social Studies - Grade 3 (1 of 2) explores the geography, history, politics, and economics at the local, state, national, and tribal levels. Course topics include: civic engagement at a community level, government services, physical and culture features of the North American region, resources, industry, and why people migrate within the United States and to the United States from other countries.
Social Studies - Grade 3
Social Studies - Grade 3 (2 of 2) explores how to use sources to learn about the First Peoples to construct a narrative of American Indian Nations. Explorations include topics of the Pueblo people, influential people and groups from some states. Activities include making an argument about the past based on reasoning, examples, and details from sources, as well as constructing a narrative of explorers and settlers in the Southwest United States to describe expansion into the West.