Wattle Gum Curriculum Year 3 Science

The Science focus in Year 3 is on four areas. The classification of living and non-living things and different life cycles. The properties of soil, rocks and minerals. Heat energy and heat transfer. Solids and liquids and how to cause a change of state.

Encourage your child’s questions and predictions, their observation and analytical skills. Important approaches to engage your child in science.

Our Science curriculum, resource recommendations and implementation instructions are in the printable pdf.

Note a comparison chart of the contents of the Australian Curriculum and a couple of states.

ImageNameWritersIllustratorsTagsSeriesTarget AgePrint StatusCurriculums
A Life Electric: The Story of Nikola Tesla,
A Shorebird Flying Adventure
A Stone Is a Story
Ada Twist’s Big Project Book for Stellar Scientists
Atom
Aussie Native Plants A-Z,
Be a Scientist: Investigating Electricity
Bright in the Night
Earth Book for Kids
Electrical Wizard: How Nikola Tesla Lit Up the World
Energy and Power
Exploring Soils: A Hidden World Underground
Gregor Mendel: The Friar Who Grew Peas
In The Dark
Karl, Get Out Of The Garden!, ,
Kitchen Science Lab for Kids
Leaf Litter
Let’s Get Tiny!
Life Underground: Tunnel into a World of Wildlife
Marie Curie and Her Daughters
Nema and the Xenos: A Story of Soil Cycles
Nikola Tesla
Planet Power
Plantastic!,
Rock Collecting for Kids: An Introduction to Geology,
Rocks and Fossils, ,
Rosalind Franklin
Science You Can Eat
Sisters in Science
Super Power
The Book of Big Science Ideas
The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Picture Book Edition, ,
The Bug Girl, , ,
The Forest in the Tree : How Fungi Shape the Earth
The Girl Who Drew Butterflies,
The Observologist
The Solar System
Up in the Garden and Down in the Dirt
What Is The World Made Of?
What’s Inside A Flower?,
When the Sky Glows
Why Does a Mirror Show Things Back to Front?,