3rd Grade Oregon Benchmark Key for Growing Healthy Kids [GHK]
Arts
Create, present and perform works of art.
Express ideas, moods and feelings
through the arts and evaluate how well a
work of art expresses one’s intent.
Respond to works of art and give reasons
for preferences.
Mathematics
Number and Operations: Develop an
understanding of fractions and fraction
equivalence.
English Language Arts
Listen to and Read Informational and
Narrative Text: Listen to, read, and
understand a wide variety of
informational and narrative text across
the subject areas at school and on my
own, applying comprehension strategies
as needed.
Vocabulary: Increase word knowledge
through systematic vocabulary
development; determine the meaning of
new words by applying knowledge of
word origins, word relationships, and
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Create, present and perform
AR.03.CP.01 Use experiences, imagination, essential
elements and organizational principles to achieve a desired
effect when creating, presenting and/or performing works of
art.
AR.03.CP.03 Create, present, and/or perform a work of art
that demonstrates an idea, mood, or feeling.
AR.03.AC.02 Identify and describe personal preferences
connected with viewing or listening to a work of art using
terminology that conveys knowledge of the arts.
3.1 Number and Operations
3.1.1 Represent common fractions (e.g., halves, thirds,
fourths, tenths) as equal parts of a whole, parts of a set, or
points or distances on a number line.
3.1.2 Recognize and demonstrate that sizes of fractional
parts are relative to the size of the whole.
Reading
EL.03.RE.08 Listen to, read, and understand a wide variety of
grade-level informational and narrative (story) text including
children’s magazines and newspapers, dictionaries, other
reference materials, online information, classic and
contemporary literature and poetry.
EL.03.RE.12 Understand, learn, and use new vocabulary that
is introduced and taught directly through orally-read stories
and informational text as well as student read stories and
informational text.
Activities
Art Gallery Exhibit, Draw & Label
Favorite Edible Plants, Plant Food
Magic Skit, Ads for Garden Plants
Draw & Label Favorite Edible
Plant, Plant Food Magic Skit, Ads
for Garden Plants, Room to Grow
Skit, Create a New Seed
Art Gallery Exhibits,
Activities
Soil Fractional Analysis Test
Soil Fractional Analysis Test
Activities
Teacher Delivery Stories, Seed
Diagrams
Classroom Activities including
Introduction and Review,
Discussions, and Worksheets,
Various Teacher Delivery
Activities.
context clues; verify the meaning of new
words; and use those new words
accurately across the subject areas.
EL.03.RE.16 Categorize words by their relationships (e.g.,
dog/mammal, animal/living things).
Read to Perform a Task: Find,
understand, and use specific information
in a variety of text across the subject
areas to perform a task.
Informational Text: Demonstrate General
Understanding: Demonstrate general
understanding of grade-level
informational text across the subject
areas.
EL.03.RE.19 Read written directions, signs, captions, warning
labels, and informational books.
3.RI.5 Use titles, tables of contents, chapter headings,
illustrations, captions, glossaries, and indexes to locate
information in text.
3.RI.5 Interpret information from diagrams, charts, and
graphs.
EL.03.RE.24 Use dictionaries, encyclopedias, CD ROMs, and
Internet to locate information.
3.RI.1 Demonstrate comprehension by identifying answers to
questions about the text.
Match Seeds with Names & Graph
3.RI.2 Distinguish the main idea and supporting details in
informational text.
3.RI.2 Determine significant information from the text,
including problems and solutions.
Teacher Delivery Stories, Explore
More About Beverage Choice
Teacher Delivery Stories,
Research and Write About Edible
Flowers
Teacher Delivery Stories, Explore
More About Beverage Choice,
Research and Write About Edible
Flowers
3.RI.2 Summarize major points from informational text.
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Hand Washing Activity:
Vegetables & Fruits- We Eat
Different Parts of Plants, Plant
Part Super Hero Demo
Worksheets, Seed Packet Activity,
Match Seeds with Names &
Graph, Tasty Tomato
Match Seeds with Names & Graph
Research and Write About Edible
Flowers
Teacher Delivery Stories, Explore
More About Beverage Choice,
Tasty Tomato
Informational Text: Develop an
Interpretation of grade-level
informational text across the subject
areas.
English Language Arts
Planning, Evaluation, and Revision: Prewrite, draft, revise, edit, and publish
across the subject areas.
Writing: Communicate supported ideas
across the subject areas, including
relevant examples, facts, anecdotes, and
details appropriate to audience and
purpose that engage reader interest;
organize information in clear sequence,
making connections and transitions
among ideas, sentences, and
paragraphs; and use precise words and
fluent sentence structures that support
meaning.
3.RI.3 Distinguish cause-and-effect and fact and opinion
Writing
EL.03.WR.01 Find ideas for writing stories and descriptions
through various sources, including conversations with others,
and in books, magazines, textbooks, or on the internet.
3.W.1 Write appropriately for purpose and audience.
Activities
Garden Writing Prompts
3.W.3a-d Create single paragraph with a topic sentence,
simple supporting facts and details, and a concluding
sentence.
EL.03.WR.10 Use vivid adjectives and action verbs
Garden Writing Prompts, Soil
Fractional Analysis Test, Research
& Write About Favorite Fruit
Food Adventurer Sensory Tasting,
Garden Writing Prompts, Student
Assessments, Persuasive Letters
Garden Writing Prompts, Soil
Fractions Analysis Test, Growing
with Stem Assessment
Food Adventurer Sensory Tasting,
Garden Writing Prompts, Growing
with Stems Worksheet,
Persuasive Letters
EL.03.WR.11 Begin to elaborate descriptions and incorporate
figurative wording in own writing.
Conventions: Spelling: Demonstrate
knowledge of spelling, grammar,
punctuation, capitalization, and
penmanship across the subject areas.
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Pollination and Advertising
EL.03.WR.13 Spell correctly: one syllable words that have
blends (play, blend) or a silent letter (walk); contractions
(isn’t, aren’t, can’t); compounds; common spelling patterns
(qu-, changing win to winning, and changing the ending of a
word from –y to-ies to make a plural such as berry/berries);
Persuasive Letters
Conventions: Handwriting: Demonstrate
knowledge of spelling, grammar,
punctuation, capitalization, and
penmanship across the subject areas.
and common homophones (words that sound the same but
have different spellings, such as hair/hare).
EL.03.WR.23 Write legibly in cursive and manuscript, leaving
space between letters in a word, words in a sentence, and
between words and the edges of paper.
Writing Applications: Expository Writing 3.W.3 Write descriptive pieces about people, places, things,
(K-3): Write narrative, expository, and
or experiences: Develop a unified main idea. Use details to
persuasive texts, using a variety of
support main idea.
written forms- including journals, essays,
short stories, poems, research reports,
research papers, business and technical
writing- to express ideas appropriate to
audience and purpose across the subject
areas.
EL.03.WR.26 Write letters, thank-you notes, and invitations:
With assistance, determine the knowledge and interests of
the audience and establish a purpose and context. Include the
date, proper salutation, body, closing and signature.
EL.03.WR.27 Write brief reports: Include observations and
information from two or more sources. Use diagrams, charts,
or illustrations that are appropriate to the text.
English Language Arts
Speaking and Listening
Speaking: Communicate supported ideas EL.03.SL.01 With guidance, organize ideas sequentially or
across the subject areas using oral,
around major points of information
visual, and multimedia forms in ways
appropriate to topic, context, audience,
and purpose; organize oral, visual, and
multimedia presentations in clear
sequence, making connections and
transitions among ideas and elements;
use language appropriate to topic,
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Food Adventurer Sensory Tasting,
Garden Writing Prompts, Seed
Packet Activity, Persuasive
Letters, Growing with Stems
Worksheet
Garden Writing Prompts, Soil
Fractional Analysis Test, Growing
with Stem Assessment,
Persuasive Letters
Persuasive Letters
Research Seeds Planted in Class,
Student Assessments, Research
and Write About Favorite Fruit
Activities
Research Seeds Planted in Class;
Take ‘n’ Teach Roots, Stems,
Leaves; You’re the Chef- Student
Assessment
context, audience, and purpose; and
demonstrate control of eye contact,
speaking rate, volume, enunciation,
inflection, gestures, and other nonverbal techniques.
EL.03.SL.06 Maintain good eye contact while speaking.
Listening: Listen critically and respond
appropriately across the subject areas.
3.SL.1d Retell in own words and explain what has been said
by a speaker.
EL.03.SL.08 Connect and relate prior experiences, insights,
and ideas to those of a speaker (e.g., through mapping,
graphic organization).
3.SL.3 Answer questions completely and with appropriate
elaboration.
Analysis: Evaluate the significance and
accuracy of information and ideas
presented in oral, visual, and multimedia
communications across the subject
areas.
Health Education
Acquire knowledge and skills to
understand and practice healthful
nutrition that contributes to growth and
energy and helps prevent chronic
diseases.
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EL.03.SL.11 Distinguish between the speaker’s opinions and
verifiable facts.
Review and Introduction of each
Lesson/Discussion
Role Play: Watering Plants
Correctly, Take ‘n’ Teach Roots,
Stems, and Leaves, Class
Discussions and Review
Review & Discussion of Where
Food Comes From, Take ‘n’ Teach
Roots, Stems, and Leaves, Student
Assessments
Review and Introductions, Class
Discussions, Role Play: Watering
Plants Correctly
Review & Discussion of Where
Food Comes From, Water for
Humans, Role Play: Watering
Plants Correctly
Promotion of Healthy Eating
HE.03.HE.01 Recognize the importance of variety and
moderation in food selection and consumption.
Activities
Introduction and Review of
Lessons; Food Samples;
Classroom and Teacher Delivery
Activities and Discussions
HE.03.HE.02 Choose a variety of foods to eat from different
food groups.
Introduction and Review of
Lessons; Food Samples; Art
Gallery Exhibit Activities; Soil
Physical Education
Demonstrate knowledge of a variety of
motor skills.
Physical Education
Understand appropriate and positive
behavior management (social skills) and
respect for all individual differences,
including gender, ethnicity, and physical
ability during physical activity.
Science (2009)
Structure and Function: Living and nonliving things vary in their characteristics
Science (2009)
Interaction and Change: Living and nonliving things interact with energy and
forces.
Science (2009)
Scientific Inquiry: Scientific inquiry is a
process used to explore the natural
world using evidence from observations
and investigations.
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HE.03.HE.03 Advocate for more fruits and vegetables at
school.
Expressive and Efficient Moving
PE.03.EE.03 Balance, demonstrating momentary stillness, in
symmetrical and asymmetrical shapes on a variety of body
parts.
PE.03.EE.04 Demonstrate three different step patterns and
combination of movements into repeatable sequences.
Self-Management and Social Behavior
PE.03.SM.01 Identify rules, procedures, and etiquette in a
specified physical activity.
Discussion, Persuasive Letters
Persuasive Letters
Activities
Yoga Pretzel (Breathing &
Movement)
Roots, Stems, and Leaves Dance
and Sing, Movement Activity
Activities
Plant Part Song, Movement
Activity
3.1 Structure and Function
3.1P.1 Compare and contrast the properties of states of
matter.
3.1L.1 Compare and contrast the characteristics of offspring
and parents
Activities
Garden Writing Prompt
3.3S.2 Use the data collected from a scientific investigation to
Radish Scientific Inquiry, Seed
Function of Flowers Activity,
Room to Grow Skit, Create a New
Seed
3.2 Interaction and Change
Activities
3.2L.1 Compare and contrast the life cycles of plants and
Introduction and Review of
animals.
Lessons, GENE Lectures and
Activities, Teacher Delivery
Activities
3.3 Scientific Inquiry
Activities
3.3S.1 Plan a simple investigation based on a testable
Radish Scientific Inquiry, Seed
question, match measuring tools to their uses, and collect and Packet Activity
record data from a scientific investigation.
Science (2009)
Engineering Design: Engineering design
is a process that uses science to solve
problems or address needs or
aspirations.
Social Sciences
Understand participatory responsibilities
of citizens in the community
(volunteerism) and in the political
process (becoming informed about
public issues and candidates, joining
political parties/interest
groups/associations, communicating
with public officials, voting, influencing
lawmaking through such processes as
petitions/initiatives).
explain the results and draw conclusions.
3.4 Engineering Design
3.4D.3 Give examples of inventions that enable scientists to
observe things that are too small or too far away.
Packet Activity
Activities
Seed Dissection
Civics and Government
SS.03.CG.03 Identify ways that people can participate in their
communities and the responsibilities of participation.
Activities
Discussion of Where Food Comes
From, Home and Community
Gardens, Hand Washing
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