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(Switched-On Schoolhouse Science 3
This third grade Switched-on Schoolhouse course includes the following topics: human growth, plants, animal growth and change, food, properties of matter, sound, seasons, rocks, and heat energy.The projects in this course include writing and research, along with hands-on experiments. Each Switched-on Schoolhouse course includes quizzes and a test for each unit, as well as a final comprehensive test. Order our Switched-on Schoolhouse 3 Science Kit separately.
Minimum system requirements are: Microsoft IE 6, or higher, 500MHz processor or higher, 512MB memory, and 600MB hard disk space; 1024 X 768 resolution or higher, 16-bit color monitor; CD-ROM drive, and Windows XP or higher. A printer is recommended.
Here are the topics covered in this course:
- You Grow & Change
- The Body Needs Oxygen
- Experiment: Breathing Patterns
- Experiment: Taste Test
- & more
- Plants
- Plant Parts
- Experiment: Study a Stem
- Plant Changes
- & more
- Animals: Growth and Change
- Animals and The Environment
- How Animals are Different
- Project: Sort Birds by Type
- & more
- You Are What You Eat
- How to Build a Healthy Body
- Project: Dinner Chart
- How to Form Good Health Habits
- & more
- Properties of Matter
- Experiment: Be a Chemist
- Experiment: Mass Measurement
- Chemical Changes
- & more
- Sounds and You
- Sounds are Made
- Experiment: High and Low Sounds
- Sounds are Heard
- & more
- Time and Seasons
- How the Earth Moves
- Experiment: the Earth's Rotation
- Why Time Changes
- & more
- Rocks and Their Change
- Experiment: Bubbling Grains of Rock
- Rocks are Changed by Wind and Water
- Report: Mount Rushmore
- & more
- Heat Energy
- Experiment: Feeling Friction
- Movement of Heat Energy
- Experiment: Changing Liquid to Gas
- & more
- Review
- Rock Collection
- Special Project
- Review Game
- & more
