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Subject Area: SCIENCE

Grade Level: 3

National Standards

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Objectives

• The student should understand that air is matter, has properties, and can do work

Estimated Time

• Approximately 24 periods of 45 minutes to complete the whole unit

Outcomes

• Students will produce several models that demonstrate how air's properties can be used to fly different objects.
• Students will do creative writing based on their observations in the activities.
• students will complete an observation sheet for each activity.

Resources

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Assessment

• Each activity culminates with a Science Lab Observation Form
• A rubric is available for the creative writing activity

Matter	Lesson 1
States of Matter	Lesson 2
Air	Lesson 3
Air Is Something	Lesson 4
Does Air Do Work?	Lesson 5
Air - Graphing	Lesson 6
Air can do work	Lesson 7
Work Air Does	Lesson 8
How the force of air helps an airplane fly	Lesson 9
Airplane creation (Dart)	Lesson 10
Airplane creation (Blunt Nose)	Lesson 11
Airplane creation (Student Design)	Lesson 12
Take a plane trip (Creative Writing)	Lesson 13
Culminating Activity	Lesson 14
Correlation to Science Standards
List of Resources
Handout/Forms