Outreach Overview

• Child Development
• Kindergarten
• First Grade
• Second Grade
• Third Grade
• Fourth Grade
• Fifth Grade

Third Grade

View a PDF of 3rd Grade Standards Correlations for SC

What‘s In My Rock?

Length: 100 minutes
Students are introduced to the concepts of rocks and minerals and the tools and techniques of a geologist by investigating the properties of a homemade rock. Students separate it into different ingredients by taking it apart, dissolving part of it in water, and by using evaporation.

Do You Hear Something?

Length: 120 minutes
Students explore their ability to discriminate between sounds. They identify objects by the properties of their sounds while dropping objects into a drop chamber. They develop a code and send messages to one another by using a drop chamber. In mini-activities, students explore a tone generator and homemade musical instruments to find out what produces sound and what changes pitch.