This quick check for 3rd grade science has three parts and an answer key on page 3. Part 1 gives six steps to number from 1 to 6. Part 2 describes Leo rolling a toy car down a ramp onto carpet, wood and tile, with the same car and the same ramp each time. Students name what changed, what was measured and one thing kept the same. Part 3 is a multiple choice question: which of three sentences is the best hypothesis?
NGSS Science and Engineering Practices, grades 3-5
“Plan and conduct an investigation collaboratively to produce data to serve as the basis for evidence, using fair tests in which variables are controlled and the number of trials considered.”
Part 2 asks students to name the changed variable, the measurement and one controlled variable in Leo's test.
A table of six steps in mixed order, from Ask a question about something you observe to Share what you learned with others. Students write 1 to 6 in the boxes.
A short paragraph and a picture of a toy car at the top of a cardboard ramp. Three boxes ask what the student changed, what the student measured and one thing kept the same.
One multiple choice question with three options. Students tick the one that can be tested.
The step order, answers to the three toy car questions and the best hypothesis.
Exit ticket
Use it at the end of the unit. Part 2 shows quickly who can name the one thing that was changed.
Test each option
Read the three hypotheses aloud and ask what you could measure with a ruler for each. Only one of them can be tested that way.
Sort by Part 1
Mark Part 1 first. Students who mix up the hypothesis and the experiment need the steps again before anything else.
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