The Seasons Song by Have Fun Teaching is perfect for teaching and learning all about the seasons of the year. This is a fun way for kids to learn the seasons. With this seasons song, your kids can learn about Spring, Summer, Fall, and Winter. While listening to the Seasons…
While watching the Creation Song, students learn about the days of Creation perfect for Sunday school, kid's church, and Bible lessons for kids. Bring joy and understanding into your kid's church, Sunday school, and classroom with this song about the days of Creation. Your kids will love a new way…
This go green recycle activity helps preschool to 3rd grade students sort everyday items into paper, plastic, metal, and glass, with a practice page and answer key included.
This Soil Matching Worksheet gives 3rd Grade students hands-on practice matching soil words to their meanings and labeling the four soil layers. An answer key is included, so checking work takes seconds.
A hands-on day and night worksheet where 3rd graders read Sun and Earth diagrams, finish science sentences from a word box, and explain what makes it dark. Answer key included for quick, no-prep review.
This fossil definitions worksheet gives 3rd grade students matching, fill-in-the-blank, and written-response practice with key fossil vocabulary. An answer key is included, so review is quick and confident.
A 3rd grade sun facts worksheet where students read about the Sun and mark each statement true or false. Includes an answer key — perfect for quick, no-prep Earth and space science practice.
Our sun worksheet for 3rd grade: students sort eight facts into what the Sun is and what the Sun does, then find both inside four sentences. Answer key included for quick, no-prep science practice.
This Mountains Worksheet helps 3rd Grade students match six landform words, use them in sentences, and explain erosion in their own writing. Answer key included, so review takes seconds.
This Rock Observation Worksheet has 3rd grade students match describing words to five rock observations, name three rock types, and record one more property. An answer key is included, so it is ready to print.
This What is Soil? Worksheet asks 3rd grade students to name what soil is made of, identify its three layers from a reference box, and explain why humus matters, with an answer key.
Read six real-life situations and decide whether each one shows reducing, reusing, or recycling on this reduce, reuse, recycle scenarios worksheet for 3rd grade. Answer key included, so Earth Day science practice takes no prep.
This solar system activity is a Space Race game where 2nd to 5th Grade students spin, write and color the eight planets in order. Includes trivia cards, practice and answer key.
Students use this Water Conservation Worksheet to define key terms, sort water-saving habits, and solve a two-step drip problem. Built for 3rd Grade, with an answer key included for fast, no-prep science practice.
This Deserts Life Science Reading Comprehension Worksheet gives 3rd Grade readers a short nonfiction passage about hot and cold deserts, with comprehension questions and an answer key included, so science reading practice takes minutes to prep.
This drawing fossils worksheet has 3rd graders sketch the imprint a fern leaf, seashell, fish and bird foot would leave in rock, then answer three written questions. Answer key included.
This Conserving Resources Worksheet asks 3rd Grade students to study four everyday scenes and write one way to stop the waste, then name two family water-saving habits. An answer key is included.
This weather wiz activity has 1st to 3rd graders read weather fact cards, decide if each is sunny, rainy, snowy or cloudy, and record them on a sort chart. Answer key included.
This layers of the earth word search worksheet gives 3rd grade students a 10-word Earth Science puzzle plus six fill-in-the-blank sentences, with an answer key included, so science vocabulary sticks the first time.
This Clouds Worksheet has third graders read five sky reports, name the cloud each one describes, and predict the weather it brings. An answer key is included, so cloud types get checked fast.
Weather watchers and rock detectives
Third grade Earth science centers on weather and climate. Kids collect weather data like temperature and rainfall, organize it in tables and graphs and use it to predict what a season will bring. They learn the difference between weather (today) and climate (the usual pattern over many years): a rainy Tuesday ≠ a rainy climate. They explore natural hazards like floods and storms and how people design ways to stay safe. Many classes also study rocks, soil, fossils and the sun. The click moment is when kids look at a month of their own weather data and spot a pattern.
Earth science is happening right outside the window. These moves get kids observing, recording and explaining it.
Play the Seasons Song as kids line up for recess. Then ask, "Which season are we in? What weather do we usually get?" Linking the song to the real sky outside connects weather to climate.
Why it works: a catchy, repeating tune gives the brain a hook to hang words on, so sung text is remembered better (Wallace, 1994).
Try it withSeasons SongSongsOpen it →Keep a class weather chart for a month with symbols for sunny, cloudy, rainy and windy. Kids classify each day's weather, then graph the totals. Patterns jump out when the data is in front of them.
Why it works: pairing a picture with each word gives kids two ways to remember it, a well-tested principle of how people learn (Mayer, 2009).
Try it withClassifying Types of Weather WorksheetWorksheetsOpen it →Give each group a bag of rocks and a magnifying glass. Kids record color, texture, size and layers, then sort the rocks their own way and explain their rule. Real rocks beat pictures every time.
Why it works: going from real objects to pictures to symbols is a core recommendation of the U.S. Department of Education's elementary math guide.
Try it withRock Observation WorksheetWorksheetsOpen it →Earth and space science is full of wow moments. Here are a few of our favorites.
ActivitiesKids line up as planets in order from the sun. The kid playing Jupiter always gets the biggest cheer.
Open Solar System Sequencing Planets Activity →
WorksheetsMatch soil types to what they feel like and what grows best in each. Bring a real scoop for touching!
Open Soil Matching Worksheet →
WorksheetsKids invent ways to save water at school and home, then vote on the best idea to try.
Open Water Conservation Worksheet →Teacher favorites right now: Seasons Song, Creation Song and Go Green Recycle Activity.
Third grade Earth science focuses on weather and climate: recording and graphing weather data, describing climates around the world and learning how people prepare for natural hazards. Many classes also cover rocks, soil, fossils and the sun.
Weather is what's happening outside right now, like rain today. Climate is the usual weather pattern in a place over many years, like hot, dry summers in a desert.
Put a simple thermometer outside a window and record the temperature and sky each morning for a few weeks. At the end, make a bar graph and look for patterns together.
They learn about floods, storms, tornadoes and droughts, and how people reduce the damage with things like levees, storm shelters and warning systems.
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