Grade 3: Free Study Materials and Practice

Grade 3 Math

9 lessons

Area of a Rectangle
The child measures area by counting unit squares, links the area of a rectangle to multiplication and uses square centimeters and square meters.
Bar Graphs and Picture Graphs
The child presents data in block graphs, bar graphs with simple scales and tables, and answers comparison and total questions.
Fractions of Shapes and Amounts
The child names unit fractions and simple non-unit fractions of shapes and sets, writes them with fraction notation and finds a fraction of an amount.
Fractions on a Number Line
The child places fractions on a number line, recognizes equivalent fractions with diagrams and compares fractions with the same numerator or denominator.
Measuring Length and Height
The child measures and compares lengths and heights with a ruler or tape in centimeters and meters, estimates before measuring and solves simple length problems.
Mass, Capacity and Temperature
The child measures mass in grams and kilograms, capacity in milliliters and liters and temperature in degrees, reading simple scales.
2, 5 and 10 Times Tables
The child uses the multiplication and division signs, recalls the 2, 5 and 10 multiplication facts with matching division facts and solves simple sharing and grouping problems.
Number Patterns and Missing Numbers
The child continues and explains number patterns with a term-to-term rule and finds missing numbers in number sentences using inverse operations.
Place Value and Rounding
The child reads, writes, orders and rounds four-digit numbers and partitions them by place value.

Grade 3 Language Arts

6 lessons

Opinion Writing
The child names a topic or book, states an opinion, gives reasons linked with because, and and also, and writes a closing sentence.
Reading Comprehension Strategies
The child asks and answers questions about a text, finds the answer in the text, makes simple inferences, explains words in context and summarises what they read.
Syllables and Multisyllabic Words
The child splits longer words into syllables by syllable type, reads common prefixes and suffixes and reads irregular words in context.
Story Elements
The child retells stories with key details, describes characters, setting and major events, finds the lesson and says who is telling the story.
Context Clues, Prefixes and Suffixes
The child works out unknown words from context, prefixes, suffixes and root words, uses dictionaries and thesauruses, and tells literal from nonliteral meanings.
Narrative Writing
The child plans, drafts, revises and edits stories and true accounts with events in order, details, description and dialogue.

Grade 3 Science

6 lessons

Adaptation and Evolution
The child explains that offspring vary and resemble their parents, that adaptations suit living things to their environment, and that fossils show living things have changed over very long times.
Hot and Cold Places of the World
The child explains why places near the equator are hot and places near the poles are cold, and describes how people, plants and animals live in hot, cold and temperate places.
Life Cycles of Plants and Animals
The child compares the life cycles of a mammal, a bird, an amphibian, an insect and a flowering plant, and describes simple sexual and asexual reproduction in plants.
Fair Tests
The child plans a fair test, decides what to change, measure and keep the same, takes repeat readings, and presents results in tables, bar charts and line graphs to draw a conclusion.
Rocks, Soils and Fossils
The child compares and groups rocks by appearance and simple tests, explains how fossils form, and finds out what soil is made of.
Teeth and Digestion
The child names the main parts of the digestive system, describes the types of teeth and how to look after them, and follows food on its journey through the body.

14 lessons

African American History
The child meets African Americans whose courage, ideas and work shaped the United States, follows their story from African homelands and slavery to freedom, civil rights and today, and explains why the country remembers…
Continents and Oceans
The child names and locates the continents and oceans, the equator and the poles, and finds their own country and some others on a world map.
Earning, Spending and Saving Money
The child learns that people earn money by working and use it to buy goods and services, chooses between spending, saving and sharing, saves for a goal with a simple plan and keeps money safe.
Local History
The child investigates the history of their own street, village or town through buildings, street names, monuments and local stories.
How We Know About the Past
The child finds out about the past from objects, pictures, buildings, written records and older people, and asks what each source can and cannot tell.
US Landforms and Climate
The child describes the main landforms, rivers and lakes and climate regions of the United States, the natural hazards each region faces, and how the land and climate shaped where people settled.
Levels of Government
The child explains what governments do, who makes, carries out and judges laws in the town, the state and the nation, names the three branches and their leaders, and says how leaders are chosen.
Democracy at School
Decide things together in your class, vote fairly and understand the results, choose representatives for a student council, and find out how communities make decisions and how you can help yours.
North America Regions
The learner describes the physical regions, population, cities and economy of North America, and its links with the rest of the world.
Local Government
The child explains how a town or city is run, from the mayor and council to the services they provide and how taxes pay for them, how local laws are made and how residents can take part.
Resources and Trade
The child names the natural, human and capital resources used to make goods and services, explains why people and places specialise and trade, and weighs a choice by what is given up.
Significant People and Why We Remember Them
The child learns about the lives of significant people from different times and places, and discusses why people are remembered and how they changed things.
Maya, Aztec and Inca
The learner describes the Maya, Aztec and Inca states and the diversity of other Indigenous peoples of the Americas, including those of present-day Brazil, and their achievements.
US States, Capitals and Regions
The child names and finds the five regions of the United States, the 50 states and their capitals, Washington, D.C. and the US territories, and describes what makes each region different.

Grade 3 Health Education

4 lessons

Feelings and Wellbeing
The child names a range of feelings, uses ways to cope with worry and anger, keeps friendships healthy, and knows when and whom to ask for help.
Germs, Clean Air and Water
The child explains how germs spread in places people share and how everyone helps to stop them, why clean air, clean water and safe rubbish collection keep a community healthy, and who in the community works to keep…
Healthy Eating
The child sorts foods into groups using the national food guide, plans a balanced plate and snacks, and understands why water, fruit and vegetables matter.
Health Labels, Ads and Medicines
The child spots how adverts and packaging try to make them want food, toys and health products, reads simple labels, knows that medicines are taken only from a trusted adult, and knows where to find health help and…

Grade 3 Computers & Technology

6 lessons

Computers Then and Now
The child compares how everyday life changed with computing, says what people and computers each do well, meets the people who design technology and why it must work for everyone, explores computing jobs, and weighs…
Events and Conditions in Coding
The child makes block programs that react to events and use if-then-else to choose between actions, for example in a simple game or quiz.
Loops in Coding
The child uses count-controlled and forever loops in a block language to shorten programs and draw or animate repeating patterns.
Online Safety
The child keeps personal information private, uses strong passwords, behaves kindly online and knows when and how to tell a trusted adult.
Variables in Games
The child uses variables for scores, timers and user input, and explains how the value of a variable changes as a program runs.
What Is AI for Kids
The child spots AI in everyday tools, trains a simple model by sorting labelled examples, sees how new or unfair examples change its answers, compares how people and machines learn, and uses an AI tool responsibly.