Properties of Earth
3rd Grade
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Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS):
3.3.C
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represent the natural world using models such as volcanoes or Sun, Earth, and Moon
system and identify their limitations, including size, properties, and materials; and |
Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS):
3.7.A
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explore and record how soils are formed by weathering of rock and the decomposition of plant and animal remains; |
Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS):
3.7.C
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identify and compare different landforms, including mountains, hills, valleys, and plains; |
Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS):
3.7.D
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explore the characteristics of natural resources that make them useful in products and materials such as clothing and furniture and how resources may be conserved. |
Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS):
SCIENCE.3.1.G
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develop and use models to represent phenomena, objects, and processes or design a prototype for a solution to a problem. |
Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS):
SCIENCE.3.2.A
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identify advantages and limitations of models such as their size, scale, properties, and materials; |
Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS):
SCIENCE.3.5.C
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use scale, proportion, and quantity to describe, compare, or model different systems; |
Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS):
SCIENCE.3.5.D
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examine and model the parts of a system and their interdependence in the function of the system; |
Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS):
SCIENCE.3.10.B
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investigate and explain how soils such as sand and clay are formed by weathering of rock and by decomposition of plant and animal remains; and |
Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS):
SCIENCE.3.11.A
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explore and explain how humans use natural resources such as in construction, in agriculture, in transportation, and to make products; |
Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS):
SCIENCE.3.11.B
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explain why the conservation of natural resources is important; and |
Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS):
SCIENCE.3.11.C
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identify ways to conserve natural resources through reducing, reusing, or recycling. |
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