Grades 3-5

Systems Thinking & Exploration

Students explore what air is made of, how our lungs work, how germs spread, and how we can measure and clean the air around us through hands-on activities and investigations.

Curriculum Units

Standards Coverage

NGSS Performance Expectations

  • 3-5-ETS1-1, 3-5-ETS1-2, 3-5-ETS1-3
    Engineering Design
  • 5-PS1-1
    Matter and Its Interactions
  • 4-LS1-1, 4-LS1-2
    From Molecules to Organisms
  • 3-LS2-1, 3-LS4-2
    Ecosystems and Biological Evolution
  • 5-ESS2-1
    Earth's Systems

Common Core Math

  • 3.MD.B.3
    Draw scaled picture graphs and bar graphs
  • 4.MD.A.1, 4.MD.A.2
    Measurement & Data
  • 4.OA.A.3
    Multi-step word problems
  • 5.G.A.2
    Represent data on coordinate planes