online course
Science Launch
Science Launch Grade 3
Free online science course · 12 weeks
- Grade
- Grade 3
- Ages
- Ages 8 to 9
- Price
- Free
- Format
- Self-paced online course at learn.lanternlearn.com
About this course
Science Launch Grade 3 is a free 12-week online science course. Kids test balanced and unbalanced forces, explore magnets, follow life cycles, find out where traits come from, read fossil clues, measure weather and compare climates, and design ways to stay safe in wild weather. Each week has short lessons Monday to Friday and a Saturday Launch Lab the family does together, with a note for the grown-up.
12-week list
Each week explores one question, with short lessons Monday to Friday and a family Launch Lab on Saturday.
| Week | Topic | Focus | NGSS |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Balanced or Not? | Pushes, pulls and what they do | 3-PS2-1 |
| 2 | Motion Patterns | Swings that repeat | 3-PS2-2 |
| 3 | Magnet Mysteries | Pushes and pulls without touching | 3-PS2-3 |
| 4 | Magnet Inventions | Solving problems with magnets | 3-PS2-4 |
| 5 | Life Cycles | Born, grow, make young, die | 3-LS1-1 |
| 6 | Family Traits | Like parent, like young | 3-LS3-1 |
| 7 | Traits and Surroundings | How the world around us shapes traits | 3-LS3-2 |
| 8 | Better Together | Animals that live in groups | 3-LS2-1 |
| 9 | Fossil Clues | Reading the past in rock | 3-LS4-1 |
| 10 | Weather by the Numbers | Measuring weather and finding patterns | 3-ESS2-1 |
| 11 | Climates of the World | Why different places have different usual weather | 3-ESS2-2 |
| 12 | Ready for Weather Hazards | Designs that keep people safe in wild weather | 3-ESS3-1 |
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