Grade 3 Overall Expectations:
Assess the importance of form, function, strength, and stability in structures through time.
- Taj Mahal (Book)
- Canadian Structures (Book Series)
- What’s Inside? Fascinating Structures Around The World (Book)
- Build It! Structures, Systems And You (Book)
- Green Buildings (Book)
- Cool Structures (Hoopla ebook)
- Construction and Demolition (Kanopy)
- Aboriginal Access Grade Three Lessons Plan (Website)
Investigate strong and stable structures to determine how their design and materials enable them to perform their load-bearing function.
- Shapes & Structures (Book)
- Freaky-strange Buildings (Book)
- 13 Buildings Children Should Know (Book)
- Spectacular Skyscrapers (Book)
- 13 Skyscrapers Children Should Know (Book)
- Young Architect (Book Series)
- From Mud Huts To Skyscrapers: Architecture For Children (Book)
- Built To Last (Book)
- Materials Science Projects (Website)
Demonstrate an understanding of the concepts of structure, strength, and stability and the factors that affect them.
- Extreme Structures: Mega-construction Of The 21st Century (Book)
- Bridges! Amazing Structures To Design, Build & Test (Book)
- Lay The Plans! (Launchpad)
- Spiderwebs To Skyscrapers: The Science Of Structures (Book)
- Building The Golden Gate Bridge: An Interactive Engineering Adventure (Book)
- What is the Structure of an Animal? (Hoopla ebook)
- Bridges (Hoopla ebook)
- How Did They Build That? Bridge (Hoopla ebook)
- Build a Structure Science Projects (Website)
- PBS: Building Big (Website)
- Build a Bridge (Website)
- How to Do the Paper Book Tower Experiment | Science Projects (YouTube)
- What Makes Bridges So Strong? (YouTube)
- How to Construct Stronger Buildings (YouTube)