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Utah Curriculum Resources

For Kindergarten, First and Second Grade lesson plans, please go to the K, 1, 2 Core listing.

  Dance - 3rd Grade

• Patterns Around Us
  

• Patterns That Grow
  

• Patterns in Dance
  

  Educational Technology - (Grades 3-5)

• Nutrients In Our Foods
  

• Song Writing
  

• What's My Structure?
  

  Health Education - 3rd Grade

• Anne Frank: Movement - Isometric Exercises
  

• Anne Frank: Nutrition - Anne Frank and Me
  

• Department Duties
  

• Design-A- Meal
  

• Hygiene Potato Graphs
  

• Stress Dolls
  

• Tolerance
  

  Language Arts - 3rd Grade

• 2-D Geometry
  

• A Moon With a View
  

• Character Mapping
  

• Covering Spaces
  

• Enemy Pie
  

• Fractions
  

• Looking At Punctuation
  

• Memories, A Connection to the Past
  

• Moon Observations
  

• Multiplication Strategies and Writing Story Problems
  

• Nets
  

• Newspaper Sharing
  

• Place Value
  

• Teaching Fluency Using Readers Theatre
  

• Third Grade Writing Lesson #1/ Descriptive Prompt
  

• Third Grade Writing Lesson #2 / Science Prompt
  

• Tissue Parachutes
  

• Try This Triangle Out For Size
  

• Vocabulary Web
  

• WOW! How Time Flies!
  

• Writing With a Purpose
  

  Library Media - 3rd Grade

• Dewey Decimal Game
  

• Shelving or Finding Books
  

  Mathematics - 3rd Grade

• 100 More 100 Less
  

• 2-D Geometry
  

• A Moon With a View
  

• A Picture's Worth
  

• Attributes & Nets of a Cube
  

• Bloomin' Bud Glyph
  

• Catapult Creations
  

• Cells
  

• Collecting Data
  

• Collecting Data 2
  

• Covering Spaces
  

• Disguise! Disguise!
  

• Don't Marry the Mole!
  

• Expanded Form and Place Value
  

• Fiddle Dee Diddle - It's Time For A Riddle
  

• Fractions
  

• Fun with Fractions
  

• Get Them All
  

• Going on a Living and Nonliving Hunt
  

• Gravity-May the Force Be With You
  

• Hammer Time!
  

• Heating Up!
  

• Here Comes the Sun
  

• How Big Are Earth, Sun, and Moon?
  

• Inchworm, Inchworm, Oh So Small
  

• It's A Weighty Matter
  

• Lemonade for Sale
  

• Lifting the Load
  

• Make a Refrigerator
  

• Making Tangram Pieces by Folding Paper
  

• Managing Heat
  

• Math 3 - Act. 01: Math in My World
  

• Math 3 - Act. 02: Unifix Cubes
  

• Math 3 - Act. 03: Unifix Flash Cards
  

• Math 3 - Act. 04: Roll-ups
  

• Math 3 - Act. 05: Fractions Book
  

• Math 3 - Act. 06: Building Fractions Game
  

• Math 3 - Act. 07: Pattern Search
  

• Math 3 - Act. 08: Growing Critters
  

• Math 3 - Act. 09: Multiples of Patterns
  

• Math 3 - Act. 10: Tube Roll
  

• Math 3 - Act. 11: Shapes Are Everywhere
  

• Math 3 - Act. 12: Let's Slide, Flip and Turn
  

• Math 3 - Act. 13: Where Are We?
  

• Math 3 - Act. 14: Tetrominoes Cover-Up
  

• May the Force Be With You
  

• May the Force Be With You
  

• Measurement: Length, Capacity, and Time
  

• Moon Observations
  

• Move It, Sir Isaac!
  

• Mr. Bo Jangle, What's Your Angle?
  

• Mr. and Miss Big Feet
  

• Multiplication Strategies and Writing Story Problems
  

• Nets
  

• Our Friend, the Sun
  

• Patterns Around Us
  

• Patterns Called Strategy
  

• Patterns That Grow
  

• Patterns in Dance
  

• Place Value
  

• Place Value and Rounding
  

• Rock-A-Bye Pendulum
  

• Shooting For A Solution
  

• Slides, Flips and Turns
  

• Sliding Along
  

• Spinning Odds and Evens
  

• Students: Meet Fractions (An Introduction)
  

• Subtraction-There's Got to be An Easier Way!
  

• Sun or Shade?
  

• Sunlight Necklaces
  

• Super Paper Planes
  

• Take a Chance with Probability
  

• The Ant Attack
  

• The Commutative Cookie
  

• The Earth Is Flat
  

• The Force of Gravity
  

• The Night Sky
  

• The Pasture and the Fence
  

• Things Are Heating Up!
  

• To an Inch and Beyond!
  

• Tricky Triangles
  

• Try This Triangle Out For Size
  

• Tubularastic Roller Coaster
  

• Unequal Groups vs. Equal Groups
  

• WOW! How Time Flies!
  

• What it is, What it isn’t
  

• What's Different About These Worms?
  

• What's in the dirt?
  

  Physical Education - 3rd Grade

• PE with a Hint of History
  

• Plyometric Exploration
  

• Shark Island
  

• The Larger It Is the Harder It Falls
  

• Upper Grade Basketball Activities
  

  Science - 3rd Grade

• A Moon With a View
  

• As the World Turns
  

• Bouncing Sunlight
  

• Catapult Creations
  

• Cells
  

• Classify Forces
  

• Disguise! Disguise!
  

• Don't Marry the Mole!
  

• Earth is Round?
  

• Flicking With Force
  

• Going on a Living and Nonliving Hunt
  

• Hammer Time!
  

• Heating Up!
  

• Here Comes the Sun
  

• Hot Stuff
  

• How Big Are Earth, Sun, and Moon?
  

• Inchworm, Inchworm, Oh So Small
  

• It's A Weighty Matter
  

• Lifting the Load
  

• Living or Nonliving
  

• Looking at the Community Tree
  

• Make a Refrigerator
  

• Making a Mini Worm Habitat
  

• Managing Heat
  

• May the Best Force Win
  

• May the Force Be With You
  

• Mini-Ecosystems
  

• Moon Observations
  

• Moon Watch
  

• Move It, Sir Isaac!
  

• Mr. Bo Jangle, What's Your Angle?
  

• Mr. and Miss Big Feet
  

• Our Friend, the Sun
  

• Rock-A-Bye Pendulum
  

• Rollin' On
  

• Rolling Along
  

• Shrink to Fit
  

• Simple Machines
  

• Sliding Along
  

• Sun or Shade?
  

• Sunlight Necklaces
  

• Super Paper Planes
  

• TRB 3:1 - Investigation 1 - Comparing the Earth & Moon
  

• TRB 3:1 - Investigation 2 - The Appearance of the Moon
  

• TRB 3:1 - Investigation 3 - What is Moonlight?
  

• TRB 3:1 - Investigation 4 - Day and Night
  

• TRB 3:1 - Investigation 5 - Making a Sundial
  

• TRB 3:1 - Investigation 6 - Celestial Model
  

• TRB 3:2 - Investigation 1 - Intro: Living & Nonliving
  

• TRB 3:2 - Investigation 2 - Greenhouses
  

• TRB 3:2 - Investigation 3 - Terrariums / Aquariums
  

• TRB 3:2 - Investigation 4 - Plot Studies
  

• TRB 3:3 - Investigation 1 - Push and Pull
  

• TRB 3:3 - Investigation 2 - Zoom Balls
  

• TRB 3:3 - Investigation 3 - Weighty Mistakes
  

• TRB 3:3 - Investigation 4 - Collision Zone
  

• TRB 3:3 - Investigation 5 - Balloon Rockets
  

• TRB 3:4 - Investigation 1 - I'm Falling For You!
  

• TRB 3:4 - Investigation 2 - Jump
  

• TRB 3:4 - Investigation 3 - Draggin' Me Down
  

• TRB 3:4 - Investigation 4 - Roller Coaster Fun
  

• TRB 3:5 - Investigation 1 - Is It Hot in the Light?
  

• TRB 3:5 - Investigation 2 - Green Apples
  

• TRB 3:5 - Investigation 3 - It's Hot
  

• TRB 3:5 - Investigation 4 - Heat Misconceptions
  

• TRB 3:5 - Investigation 5 - The Little Orange Rooster
  

• TRB 3:5 - Investigation 6 - Heat from Machines
  

• TRB 3:5 - Investigation 7 - Rubbing Objects Together
  

• The Ant Attack
  

• The Earth Is Flat
  

• The Force of Gravity
  

• The Heat is On
  

• The Larger It Is the Harder It Falls
  

• The Night Sky
  

• Things Are Heating Up!
  

• Third Grade Writing Lesson #2 / Science Prompt
  

• Tissue Parachutes
  

• Tubularastic Roller Coaster
  

• UMNH: Rock Cycle
  

• Using Force and Motion
  

• Warm Me Up!
  

• Weighing In
  

• Weighing in
  

• What it is, What it isn’t
  

• What's Different About These Worms?
  

• What's in the dirt?
  

  Social Studies - 3rd Grade

• Applying Principles of Civic Responsibility
  

• Community Adaptations
  

• Community Services
  

• Creating a Community
  

• Department Duties
  

• Geographic Features and Human Settlements
  

• Human Settlement and Geography
  

• Indigenous Cultures Change Over Time
  

• Reduce, Reuse, Recycle
  

• Respect for and Understanding of Civic Symbols
  

  Theater - 3rd Grade

• Teaching Fluency Using Readers Theatre
  

• The Force of Gravity
  

  Visual Arts - 3rd Grade

• 2-D Geometry
  

• Going on a Living and Nonliving Hunt
  

• How Do You Dew?
  

• Moon Observations
  

• Multiplication Strategies and Writing Story Problems
  

• Stress Dolls
  

• Tolerance
  

For general questions about Utah's Core Curriculum contact the USOE Director of Curriculum - LYNNE GREENWOOD (lynne.greenwood@schools.utah.gov)

These materials have been produced by and for the teachers of the State of Utah. Copies of these materials may be freely reproduced for teacher and classroom use. When distributing these materials, credit should be given to Utah State Office of Education. These materials may not be published, in whole or part, or in any other format, without the written permission of the Utah State Office of Education, 250 East 500 South, PO Box 144200, Salt Lake City, Utah 84114-4200.