Grade 3: every topic

Every topic a child covers in Grade 3 under the Common Core State Standards · NGSS, as the app teaches it. 88 topics across 17 subjects: Spelling, Explore, Writing, Quantitative reasoning, Verbal reasoning, Mathematics, English, Brain teasers, Science, Reading, Art, Physical education, Health, Computing, Social studies, Music, Drama.

This is the real list, not a summary. Each line is one topic in Light Learning, in the words of the United States programme rather than reworded.

Reading

45 topics in Reading this year.

Reading · Literature

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Art

9 topics in Art this year.

Drawing

• Looking properly and putting down what is actually there, which is a trainable skill and not a talent. Working at Grade 3: drawing from life, line and shape.

Colour

• How color actually behaves, which surprises most children and most adults. Working at Grade 3: primary and secondary, mixing and matching, warm and cool.

Painting

• Paint as a material with its own rules, learned by using it rather than by being warned about it. Working at Grade 3: thick and thin paint, backgrounds and layers.

Printmaking and pattern

• Making the same mark many times, which is where pattern, repetition and a good deal of design begin. Working at Grade 3: repeating patterns, pattern in other cultures.

Sculpture and making

• Working in three dimensions, which uses a different part of the head from drawing. Working at Grade 3: modelling, joining and construction.

Textiles and craft

• Cloth, thread and the making traditions that most of the world learned art through. Working at Grade 3: weaving and threading, sewing, collage.

Digital art and photography

• The tools most children will actually use, treated as art materials rather than as a treat. Working at Grade 3: taking a photograph on purpose.

Looking at art

• Being able to say something true about somebody else’s work, which is half of every art curriculum and the half usually skipped. Working at Grade 3: saying what you can see, artists from many places.

Sketchbook and process

• The record of the work rather than the finished piece, which is what an art course is actually assessed on. Working at Grade 3: keeping a sketchbook.

Physical education

4 topics in Physical education this year.

Movement skills

• The movements every game is built from: running, jumping, throwing, catching and balance. At Grade 3: running, hopping and skipping, throwing and catching, balance and coordination, gymnastic shapes and rolls.

Fitness and the body

• What exercise actually does to the heart, the lungs and the muscles, and how to build it up safely. At Grade 3: warming up and cooling down, heart rate.

Games and fair play

• How a game works, why the rules are there, and what makes somebody worth playing with. At Grade 3: playing by the rules, winning and losing well.

Safety and equipment

• The kit and the checks that stop an ordinary afternoon becoming an injury. At Grade 3: kit and footwear, checking the playing area.

Health

4 topics in Health this year.

Keeping the body well

• Hygiene, sleep, teeth and skin: the small habits that prevent most of what goes wrong. At Grade 3: washing and germs, teeth, sleep.

Food and nutrition

• What food does in the body. Nothing here calls a food good or bad, because that is how eating becomes a worry. At Grade 3: food groups, water and drinks.

Feelings and wellbeing

• Naming feelings and knowing what helps. Nothing on this page diagnoses anybody. At Grade 3: naming feelings, calming down, worry, asking for help.

Safety and first aid

• What to do when something goes wrong, in the order it should be done. At Grade 3: road and water safety, medicines.

Computing

4 topics in Computing this year.

Algorithms and programming

• Writing instructions exact enough for something with no judgement to follow them. At Grade 3: giving exact instructions, loops, debugging.

How computers work

• What is actually inside the machine, and how information is stored and moved about. At Grade 3: parts of a computer.

Online safety and citizenship

• Passwords, privacy, scams and behavior. The part with the largest consequences outside school. At Grade 3: passwords, what is personal information, being decent online.

Creating with technology

• Making something that works: a program, a document, a spreadsheet, an image. At Grade 3: making a program.

Social studies

4 topics in Social studies this year.

History

• What happened, how anybody knows, and why two honest accounts can disagree. At Grade 3: then and now.

Geography

• Where places are, what they are like, and why people live where they do. At Grade 3: maps and directions, continents and oceans.

Citizenship and government

• How decisions get made for everybody, and what one person can do about them. At Grade 3: rules and laws.

People, work and money

• How families and countries get what they need, and the choices scarcity forces. At Grade 3: needs and wants.

Mathematics

3 topics in Mathematics this year.

Operations and Algebraic Thinking

• Interpret products of whole numbers as the total number of objects in equal groups.

Number and Operations · Fractions

• Understand a fraction as the quantity formed by one part when a whole is partitioned into equal parts.

Measurement and Data

• Measure and estimate liquid volumes and masses of objects using grams, kilograms and liters.

Explore

2 topics in Explore this year.

Artificial intelligence

• Understand that a computer stores everything using only two states.

Law

• Understand why a rule agreed in advance is fairer than one decided afterwards.

Quantitative reasoning

2 topics in Quantitative reasoning this year.

Reasoning · quantitative

• Find and apply the rule behind a numerical or figural pattern (CogAT-style reasoning; not a Common Core standard).
• Find and apply the rule behind a numerical or figural pattern (CogAT-style reasoning; not a Common Core standard).

Verbal reasoning

2 topics in Verbal reasoning this year.

Reasoning · verbal

• Reason about word meaning and relationships under time pressure (CogAT-style reasoning; not a Common Core standard).
• Reason about word meaning and relationships under time pressure (CogAT-style reasoning; not a Common Core standard).

Music

2 topics in Music this year.

Beat, rhythm and pitch

• The parts every piece is made of, named so a child can say what they are hearing. At Grade 3: finding the beat, rhythm patterns, high and low.

Listening and traditions

• Hearing what is happening in a piece, from anywhere in the world. At Grade 3: instruments and families.

Drama

2 topics in Drama this year.

Voice and performing

• Being heard, understood and believed, which is a set of learnable techniques. At Grade 3: being heard.

Character and script

• Building somebody who is not you, and reading the page they came from. At Grade 3: reading a script, improvising.

Spelling

1 topic in Spelling this year.

Language · Conventions of Standard English

• Spell grade-appropriate words correctly, consulting references as needed.

Writing

1 topic in Writing this year.

Writing

• Write a recount with events in order, using time words to connect them.

English

1 topic in English this year.

Language · Conventions of Standard English

• Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English grammar and usage when writing or speaking.

Brain teasers

1 topic in Brain teasers this year.

Puzzles and reasoning

• Work out an answer from the information given, using reasoning rather than recall.

Science

1 topic in Science this year.

NGSS · Earth Systems

• Represent data to describe typical weather conditions expected during a season.

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