Engaging inherited traits activities, lessons and experiments to teach inheritance and variation of traits in third grade science.

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How do you teach students about animal traits? The Next Generation Life Science Standards for Third Grade ask students to provide evidence that animals have

Great exercise for your gr 3's to collaborate with an elbow partner. As humans we have traits that help us adapt to our environment. Well animals do too! Explore what animals have to help them in their environment. Explore physical traits like flippers, fins, tails and length of legs. How do these help animals live in their world?

Engaging lessons, activities, and videos to teach students in third grade all about inherited traits and heredity. Explore how animals and plants pass traits from parent to offspring with these engaging ideas!

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Comprehension sheet on heredity and traits. Have your students understood the info they just read. Read the passage individually or as a class and then answer these questions. 1) How are traits determined that offspring will have? 2) What traits did you inherit from your parents? 3) Can you identify 3 animals and their traits? 4) Give 2 examples of an acquired or learned trait that you have? 5) Can you identify how the environment can influence traits? Provide 2 examples. 6)…

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