Third Grade Amplify
Tackle more complex texts and topics in both reading and writing through making claims supported by evidence. Explore the role of geography in shaping cultures and life ways.
The Amplify Third Grade CKLA Units challenge students to apply the ELA skills developed in earlier grades to more complex texts and topics. Students are guided to analyze character traits, make predictions, and identify features of genres in their reading. In their writing, students use more complex sentence structures and paragraphs to state claims or opinions and support their perspective with evidence. Across the units, students engage with the idea of how geography impacts the way people live. From meeting basic needs, to developing cultural traditions, to the growth of major civilizations, students investigate how humans make sense of, and make use of, their environments. Moose x Amplify builds on those connections through lessons on a range of topics including New Hampshire wildlife, Abenaki culture, and the first colonial settlements along the seacoast.
Amplify Knowledge Domain | Amplify Lesson | Objective Connection | Moose Alignment | Field Trip |
Unit 1: Classic Tales | Lesson 3: On the Road | Students will recount the events of a story using images. | MxA Lesson: Ox Cart Man | In person FT: Squam Lake |
Unit 2: Animal Classifications | Lesson 2: Classifying Animals | Students will explain how text features help readers identify information about classifying living things. | MxA Lesson: New Hampshire State Spider | In person FT: Massabesic Center |
Lesson 3: Vertebrate or Invertebrate | Students will identify the connection between vertebrates and invertebrates. | MxA Lesson: New Hampshire Wildlife Magazine | Animal Fact Sheet: Quahog | |
Lesson 5: Fins and Gills | Students will present findings learned about fish from text features. | MxA Lesson: New Hampshire Wildlife Magazine (cont.) | Animal Fact Sheet: Cod Animal Fact Sheet: Trout | |
Lesson 6: From Water to Land | Students will record key information about amphibians. | MxA Lesson: New Hampshire Wildlife Magazine (cont.) | Animal Fact Sheet: Red-spotted Newt | |
Lessons 10 and 11: Wings and Feathers, Parts 1 and 2 | Students will identify information about birds and explain how specific text features support their learning. | MxA Lesson: New Hampshire Wildlife Magazine (cont.) | Animal Fact Sheet: Purple Finch Animal Fact Sheet: Eagle Animal Fact Sheet: Loon | |
Lesson 12: Live-bearing Milk Producers | Students will record information about mammals. | MxA Lesson: New Hampshire Wildlife Magazine (cont.) | Animal Fact Sheet: White-tailed Deer Animal Fact Sheet: Beaver Animal Fact Sheet: Moose Animal Fact Sheet: Bobcat | |
Unit 7: Astronomy | Lesson 9: Space Exploration | Students will write an opinion about the future of space exploration. | MxA Lesson: The Vision of Christa McAuliffe | |
Unit 8: Native Americans Check out Moose Unit 2: The Abenaki before 1600 for related resources | Lesson 1: Spreading Through the Continents | Students will identify the cause-and-effect relationship related to the change from nomadic Native Americans who settled in one place. | Lesson 2.1: People of the Dawn | Educator Background Knowledge: Unit 2: The Abenaki before 1600 In person FT: Mt. Kearsarge Indian Museum |
Lesson 3: Akando and Aponi Gatherers | Students will be able to identify qualities of engaging audio recordings of stories. | Lesson 2.2: Using the Land | Educator Background Knowledge: | |
Lesson 6: Almeda the Basket Weaver | Students will make inferences based on reading. | Lesson 2.4: Abenaki Arts and Culture | Educator Background Knowledge: | |
Lesson 8: Native Americans of the Northeast | Students will recall information from reading and writing a short reflection. | Lesson 2.3: Oral History in Abenaki Communities | Educator Background Knowledge: | |
Unit 10: Colonial Americans Check out Moose Unit 3: Settling New Hampshire and Moose Unit 4: Building a Colony for related resources | Lesson 1: Introduction to Colonial Life in America | Students will ask and answer questions requiring literal recall and understanding of details. | Lesson 3.2: Early Industries | Educator Background Knowledge: Unit 3: Settling New Hampshire Do It! Activity: Tools for Early NH Industries Brainstorm |
Lesson 2: The First English Colony | Students will retell important points from the story. | Lesson 3.4: The First English Settlements (Guided Practice, Student Reading, and Independent Practice) | Educator Background Knowledge: Unit 3: Settling New Hampshire Do It! Activity: Settling NH Word Scramble | |
Lesson 3: Jamestown and the Powhatan | Students will ask and answer questions requiring literal recall and understanding of details. | Lesson 3.3: Who Owns the Land? | Educator Background Knowledge: Unit 3: Settling New Hampshire Do It! Activity: Abenaki and Early NH Settlers Word Search | |
Lesson 12: Colonial Life and Lesson 13: Life on the Farm | Students will conduct research to write a brief narrative about life in one of the thirteen colonies. | Lesson 4.2: Life in New Hampshire in the 1700s | Educator Background Knowledge: | |
Lessons 14 and 15: The Road to Revolution, Parts 1 and 2 | Students will read and listen to a text about the beginnings of the American Revolution and identify the cause and effect of certain events. | MxA Lesson: Forts and a Corduroy Road | Educator Background Knowledge: |