Grade 3 AAP Level IV Essential Standards
School Year 2020-21
For the FCPS Return to School in 2020-21, the standards listed below emphasize the central priorities for learning in each course. These standards are intended to guide instruction and assessment during this extraordinary school year.
Quarter 1 (September 8 – October 30)
Language Arts
Interdisciplinary Unit (8 weeks)
- Use different strategies such as determining importance, making inferences, drawing conclusions, and considering multiple points of view.
- Pose and respond to open ended questions and clarify and challenge ideas.
- Ask clarifying questions and take notes when listening to a speaker.
- Understand cause and effect and its relationship to consequences.
- Develop analytical and interpretive skills in fiction, poetry, and/or non-fiction texts.
- Think about literature through the lens of a concept such as change or relationships.
- Lead and contribute in group discussions and other points of view.
- Identify a concept or "Big Idea" that connects to interdisciplinary concepts like change, systems, or relationships.
- Use technology, including the Internet, to gather information from authoritative print and digital sources.
- Group ideas related to the topic.
- Select a topic and develop a plan for writing for a variety of purposes and audiences.
- Use description, details, and examples that support the main idea.
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Use author techniques to improve or create a new piece of writing.
Advanced Mathematics
Addition and Subtraction (4 weeks)
- Read, write, and identify the place value of each digit in a six-digit whole number, with and without models.
- Round whole numbers, 9,999 or less, to the nearest ten, hundred, and thousand.
- Compare and order whole numbers each 9,999 or less.
- Estimate and determine the sum or difference of two whole numbers.
- Create and solve single-step and multistep practical problems involving sums or differences of two whole numbers, each 9,999 or less.
- Identify, describe, create, and extend patterns found in objects, pictures, numbers, and tables.
- Create equations to represent equivalent mathematical relationships.
Multiplication and Division (4 weeks)
- Represent multiplication and division through 10 × 10, using a variety of approaches and models.
- Create and solve single-step practical problems that involve multiplication and division through 10 x 10.
- Identify, describe, create, and extend patterns found in objects, pictures, numbers and tables.
- Create equations to represent equivalent mathematical relationships.
Science
Ladybugs (8 weeks)
- Demonstrate an understanding of scientific and engineering practices by:
- Developing and using models
- Investigate and understand that:
- Adaptations allow organisms to satisfy life needs and respond to the environment
- Adaptations may be behavioral or physical
- Aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems support a diversity of organisms
- Relationships exist among organisms in an ecosystem
AAP Level IV Extended Standards:
- Understand the interdependency of producer, consumer, and decomposer in an ecosystem.
- Analyze the relationships between and among systems.
- Analyze the interactions of various system components with one another and the input into the system.
Social Studies
Civics and Citizenship (2 weeks)
Apply the traits of a good citizen, on and offline, and an understanding of the Student Rights and Responsibilities by:
- Respecting the rights and property of others
- Describing actions that can improve school and community
- Demonstrating self-discipline and self-reliance
- Practicing honesty and trustworthiness
- Explaining the purpose of rules
AAP Level IV Extended Standards:
- Develop responsibility for creating community.
- Examine and analyze citizenship and community through the lens of a concept such as change or relationships.
- Understand that change in our actions can have positive and/or negative effects to our community and government.
Civics and Government (3 weeks)
- Evaluate the importance of government in the community, Virginia, and the United States.
- Explain the purpose of laws.
- Explain the purpose of government: make laws, carry out laws, decide if laws have been broken.
AAP Level IV Extended Standards:
- Create generalizations about the principles of government.
- Analyze how human civilizations develop and help themselves as a part of interdependent systems.
- Examine and analyze citizenship and community through the lens of a concept such as change or relationships.
World Geography (3 weeks)
- Use globes and maps to locate, describe, and compare major rivers, mountain ranges, and geographic features of Africa, Asia, Europe, North America, and South America.
AAP Level IV Extended Standards:
- Utilize maps, globes, and other geographic tools (e.g. internet/GPS/etc.) to locate, describe, and compare various sites, places, and geographic features.
Quarter 2 (November 2 – January 22)
Language Arts
Interdisciplinary Unit (9 weeks)
- Use a variety of strategies, including determining importance, making inferences, drawing conclusions and considering multiple perspectives.
- Develop analytical and interpretive skills in fiction, poetry, and nonfiction texts.
- Create generalizations about the story/text based on categories and concepts.
- Develop reasoning skills in the language arts.
- Analyze literature through the lens of a concept Identify a concept or “Big Idea” that supports interdisciplinary connections e.g., change, systems, patterns, relationships, etc.
- Make new connections considering the evidence and reasoning presented.
- Compare and contrast internal and external influences on settings, characters, and events over time.
- Synthesize author techniques to improve or create a new piece of writing.
- Conduct authentic research by applying skills of questions, information gathering, data analysis and synthesis.
- Select a topic and develop a plan for writing for a variety of purposes and audiences.
- Focus, organize, and elaborate to create an effective message.
- Provide evidence and data to support a claim, issue, or thesis sentence.
- Use author techniques to improve or create a new piece of writing.
- Use descriptive details and examples.
- Reflect individuality through word choice and style.
- Provide evidence and data to support a claim, issue, or thesis sentence.
- Group ideas related to the topic.
- Use description, details, and examples that support the main idea.
Advanced Mathematics
Fractions Part 1 (4 weeks)
- Name and write fractions and mixed numbers represented by a model.
- Represent fractions and mixed numbers with models and symbols.
- Compare and order fractions and mixed numbers, with and without models.
- Represent equivalent fractions.
Addition and Subtraction Part 2 (6 weeks)
- Read, write, and identify the place and value of each digit in a nine-digit whole number.
- Estimate and determine sums and differences of whole numbers (numbers each 999,999 or less).
- Create and solve single-step and multistep practical problems involving addition and subtraction with whole numbers.
- Identify, describe, create, and extend patterns found in objects, pictures, numbers, and tables (numerical).
- Recognize and demonstrate the meaning of equality in an equation.
Science
Interdisciplinary Unit (3 weeks)
- Demonstrate an understanding of scientific and engineering practices by:
- Planning and carrying out investigations
- Developing and using models
- Obtaining, evaluating, and communicating information
- Investigate and understand:
- Patterns of natural events such as day and night, seasonal changes, simple phases of the moon
- AAP Level IV Extended Standards:
- Understand how our world changes over time.
- Understand and analyze cyclical patterns of change.
- Identify a concept or “Big Idea” that supports interdisciplinary connections e.g. change, systems, patterns, relationships, etc. to analyze real-world problems.
Interdisciplinary Unit (3 weeks)
- Demonstrate an understanding of scientific and engineering practices by:
- Constructing and critiquing conclusions and explanations
- Developing and using models
- Obtaining, evaluating, and communicating information
- Investigate and understand:
- There are many sources of water on Earth
- The energy from the sun drives the water cycle, which has many processes
- Water is essential for living things
- Water on Earth is limited and needs to be conserved
- Sources of renewable and nonrenewable energy
- AAP Level IV Extended Standards:
- Determine human dependency on several major sources of energy found on Earth
- Investigate the effects of humans on the environment, the importance of Earth’s natural resources, and sound conservation practices
- Design, perform, and report on the results of experiments related to a given problem
Interdisciplinary Unit (3 weeks)
- Demonstrate an understanding of scientific and engineering practices by:
- Planning and carrying out investigations
- Constructing and critiquing conclusions and explanations
- Investigate and understand:
- Energy is from the sun
- Conservation and resource renewal
- Sources of renewable and nonrenewable energy
- AAP Level IV Extended Standards:
- Determine human dependency on several major sources of energy found on Earth.
- Sequence natural events chronologically.
- Understand how natural resources change over time.
- Understand that systems are interdependent of each other.
Social Studies
Interdisciplinary Unit (3 weeks)
- Understand how civilizations have geographically changed over time, with a focus on Ancient Egypt.
- Describe and evaluate how people in Ancient Egypt adapted to their environment.
- Explain how the contributions of ancient Egypt (architecture, inventions, the calendar, and written language) continue to influence our world today.
- Understand the use of natural, human, and capital resources in relation to Ancient Egypt.
- Understand the concepts of specialization and trade.
- Understand the concepts of opportunity cost and economic decision making.
- AAP Level IV Extended Standards
- Develop an understanding of ancient civilizations with attention to defining features of geography, history, and culture.
- Analyze how human civilizations develop and sustain themselves as a collection of interdependent systems.
Interdisciplinary Unit (3 weeks)
- Explain how the contributions of ancient Egypt (architecture, inventions, the calendar, and written language) continue to influence our world today.
- AAP Level IV Extended Standards:
- Apply skills of historical analysis and historical interpretation to primary and secondary sources of information.
- Apply abstract concepts such as systems, cause and effect, and change over time to understand the impact of the past on the present.
Quarter 3 (January 25 – March 26)
Language Arts
Interdisciplinary Level IV Unit (9 weeks)
- Develop analytical and interpretative skills in fiction, poetry, and/or non-fiction text.
- Develop analytical and interpretive skills while applying research skills.
- Conducts authentic research by applying skills of questioning, information gathering, data analysis, and synthesis.
- Identify a concept or “Big Idea” that supports interdisciplinary connections e.g., change, systems, relationships.
- Use a variety of strategies, to include: determining importance, making inferences, drawing conclusions, and considering multiple perspectives.
- Assess the strengths and limitations of sources in terms of organization, language, format, purposes, and audience.
- Select a topic and develop a plan for writing for a variety of purposes and audiences.
- Use author techniques to improve or create a new piece of writing.
- Use descriptive details and examples.
- Reflect individuality through word choice and style.
- Provide evidence and data to support a claim, issue, or thesis sentence.
- Group ideas related to the topic.
- Use description, details, and examples that support the main idea.
- Develop linguistic competency.
- Use text, word, parts, knowledge of stems and word origins to figure out unfamiliar words.
Advanced Mathematics
Decimals (6 weeks)
- Read, write, represent, and identify decimals expressed through thousandths.
- Round decimals to the nearest whole number.
- Compare and order decimals.
- Given a model, write the decimal and fraction equivalents.
- Add and subtract with decimals.
- Solve single-step and multistep practical problems involving addition and subtraction with decimals.
- Recognize and demonstrate the meaning of equality in an equation.
Multiplication and Division Part 2 (3 weeks)
- Demonstrate fluency with multiplication facts through 12 x 12, and the corresponding division facts.
- Estimate and determine products of whole numbers (1 digit × 1 digit and 1 digit × 2 digits).
- Estimate and determine quotients of whole numbers, with and without remainders (1-digit divisor and 2-digit dividend).
- Create and solve single-step and multistep practical problems involving multiplication and single-step practical problems involving division with whole numbers.
- Identify, describe, create, and extend patterns found in objects, pictures, numbers, and tables (numerical).
- Recognize and demonstrate the meaning of equality in an equation.
Science
Interdisciplinary Unit (9 weeks)
- Demonstrate an understanding of scientific and engineering practices by:
- Asking questions and defining problems
- Planning and carrying out investigations
- Constructing and critiquing conclusions and explanations
- Obtaining, evaluating, and communicating information
- Investigate and understand:
- That natural events and humans influence ecosystems
- Soil is a natural resource and should be conserved
- That soil is important in ecosystems
- Soil, with its different components, is important to organisms
- Soil provides support and nutrients necessary for plant growth
- AAP Level IV Extended Standards:
- Identify a concept or “Big Idea” that supports interdisciplinary connections e.g. change, systems, patterns, relationships, etc. to analyze real-world problems.
- Understand the benefits and drawbacks of each soil type.
- Analyze how soil is created.
- Make predictions, observations, and inferences and draw conclusions.
- Understand how natural resources change over time.
- Evaluate the credibility and accuracy of data sources and note any discrepancies among the data.
- Analyze experimental data as appropriate.
Social Studies
Interdisciplinary Unit (3 weeks)
- Understand how civilizations have geographically changed over time, with a focus on Ancient China.
- Describe and evaluate how people in Ancient China adapted to their environment.
- Explain how the contributions of Ancient China (architecture, inventions, the calendar, and written language) continue to influence our world today.
- AAP Level IV Extended Standards:
- Understand how our world changes over time.
- Understand and analyze cyclical patterns of change.
- Identify a concept or “Big Idea” that supports interdisciplinary connections e.g. change, systems, patterns, relationships, etc. to analyze real-world problems.
Interdisciplinary Unit (3 weeks)
- Understand the use of natural, human, and capital resources in relation to Ancient China.
- Understand the concepts of specialization and trade.
- Understand the concepts of opportunity cost and economic decision making.
- Understand how civilizations have geographically changed over time, with a focus on Ancient Greece.
- Describe and evaluate how people in Ancient Greece adapted to their environment.
- Explain how the contributions of Ancient Greece (architecture, government, and sports) continue to influence our world today.
- AAP Level IV Extended Standards:
- Apply skills of historical analysis and historical interpretation to primary and secondary sources of information.
- Apply abstract concepts such as systems, cause and effect, and change over time to understand the impact of the past on the present.
- Develop an understanding of ancient civilizations with attention to defining features of geography, history, and culture.
Interdisciplinary Unit (3 weeks)
- Understand the concepts of specialization and trade.
- Understand the concepts of opportunity cost and economic decision making.
- Understand the use of natural, human, and capital resources in relation to Ancient Greece.
- AAP Level IV Extended Standards:
- Describe how producers have used natural, human, and capital resources in the past and present.
- Analyze historical situations for cause and effect relationships.
Quarter 4 (April 5 – June 11)
Language Arts
Interdisciplinary Level IV Unit (10 weeks)
- Develop analytical and interpretative skills in fiction, poetry, and/or non-fiction text.
- Develop analytical and interpretive skills while applying research skills.
- Conducts authentic research by applying skills of questioning, information gathering, data analysis, and synthesis.
- Identify a concept or “Big Idea” that supports interdisciplinary connections e.g., change, systems, relationships.
- Use a variety of strategies, to include: determining importance, making inferences, drawing conclusions, and considering multiple perspectives.
- Assess the strengths and limitations of sources in terms of organization, language, format, purposes, and audience.
- Select a topic and develop a plan for writing for a variety of purposes and audiences.
- Evaluate the choices the author makes to construct power, position, and perspective.
- Select a topic and develop a plan for writing for a variety of purposes and audiences.
- Use the elements of reasoning to develop strong, convincing arguments in persuasive writing.
- Focus, organize, and elaborate to create an effective message.
- Understand the necessity for multiple and varied resources in research.
- Provide evidence and data to support a claim, issue, or thesis sentence.
- Use technology, including the internet, to gather information from authoritative print and digital sources.
- Develop linguistic competency.
- Use text, word, parts, knowledge of stems and word origins to figure out unfamiliar words.
Advanced Mathematics
Fractions Part 2 (4 weeks)
- Add and subtract fractions and mixed numbers having like and unlike denominators.
- Solve single-step practical problems involving addition and subtraction with fractions and mixed numbers.
- Identify, describe, create, and extend patterns found in objects, pictures, numbers, and tables.
- Recognize and demonstrate the meaning of equality in an equation.
**Students will learn about Data, Stats, and Probability during asynchronous instruction with provided digital resources**
Multiplication and Division Part 3 (4 weeks)
- Estimate and determine products of whole numbers (2 digits × 2 digits).
- Estimate and determine quotients of whole numbers, with and without remainders (1-digit divisor and 3-digit dividend).
- Create and solve single-step and multistep practical problems involving multiplication and single-step practical problems involving division with whole numbers.
- Identify, describe, create, and extend patterns found in objects, pictures, numbers, and tables (numerical).
- Recognize and demonstrate the meaning of equality in an equation.
**Students will learn about Time during asynchronous instruction with provided digital resources**
Ensuring Mastery of Essential Standards (2 weeks)
For the final two weeks of school, students will have differentiated opportunities to continue to show mastery of year-long essential standards.
Science
Interdisciplinary Unit (9 weeks)
- Demonstrate an understanding of scientific and engineering practices by:
- Asking questions and defining problems
- Planning and carrying out investigations
- Constructing and critiquing conclusions and explanations
- Obtaining, evaluating, and communicating information
- Investigate and understand:
- Purpose and function of simple machines
- Types of simple machines
- Compound machines
- Examples of simple and compound machines found in the school, home, and work environments
AAP Level IV Extended Standards
- Investigate and describe kinetic and potential energy, and the proportionality of force as motion is communicated by mechanically means.
- Describe and understand the implications for action based on the available data.
- Draw the appropriate conclusions after conducting investigations.
- Make predictions, observations, and inferences and draw conclusions.
- Evaluate the credibility and accuracy of data sources and note any discrepancies among the data.
Social Studies
Interdisciplinary Unit (3 weeks)
- Understand how civilizations have geographically changed over time, with a focus on Ancient Rome.
- Describe and evaluate how people in Ancient Rome adapted to their environment.
- Explain how the contributions of Ancient Rome (architecture, government, and sports) continue to influence our world today.
- Understand the use of natural, human, and capital resources in relation to Ancient Rome..
- Understand the concepts of specialization and trade.
- Understand the concepts of opportunity cost and economic decision making.
Interdisciplinary Unit (3 weeks)
- Understand how civilizations have geographically changed over time, with a focus on Ancient Rome.
- Describe oral tradition (storytelling), government (kings), and economic development (trade) of the early West African Empire of Mali.
- Describe and evaluate how people in the West African Empire of Mali adapted to their environment.
Interdisciplinary Unit (4 weeks)
- Understand the use of natural, human, and capital resources in relation to the West African Empire of Mali.
- Understand the concepts of specialization and trade.
- Understand the concepts of opportunity cost and economic decision making.
AAP Level IV Extended Standards:
- Apply abstract concepts such as systems, cause and effect, and change over time to understand the impact of the past on the present.
- Apply skills of historical analysis and historical interpretation to primary and secondary sources of information.
- Develop an understanding of ancient civilizations with attention to defining features of geography, history, and culture.
- Analyze how human civilizations develop and sustain themselves as a collection of interdependent systems.
- Analyze historical situations for cause and effect relationships.
- Describe how producers have used natural, human, and capital resources in the past and present.