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3rd grade · Science · Unit 12 of 12

Weather & Climate

Weather data in tables and graphs, and climates around the world.

What your child practices

Your child reads weather data to find patterns in a season and compares climates in different regions of the world, including Alabama's.

Alabama Course of Study content standard: 3.13; 3.14 · showing seasonal weather data in tables and graphs, and describing climates in different regions

How we explain it

Children can open this short lesson before they practice.

  1. Weather is today's air. Climate is the usual weather over many years.
  2. Tropical rainforests are hot and wet. Polar places are cold all year.
  3. On a bar graph, the tallest bar shows the most.

Example: Which climate is cold all year? Polar places are near the North and South Poles. Answer: polar

Weather & Climate in Alabama

In the Alabama Course of Study, this is unit 12 of 12 in 3rd grade Science, after Fossils & Long Ago.

Gradelings describes a child's practice on this unit as Beginning, Approaching, Meeting or Exceeding (Four practice steps). That reflects practice, not a report-card mark: the teacher decides the mark.

Source: Alabama State Department of Education (ALSDE)

Sample questions

A taste of this unit. In the app, questions change every time and get easier or harder to match your child.

  1. Question 1

    A bar graph shows rain each month. The tallest bar is the…

    • coldest month
    • rainiest month
    • warmest month
    • driest month

  2. Question 2

    Summers in Alabama are usually…

    • icy all day
    • dry and freezing
    • cold and snowy
    • hot and humid

  3. Question 3

    Climate is…

    • one storm
    • tomorrow's forecast
    • today's weather
    • the usual weather in a place over many years

  4. Question 4

    Which tool shows wind direction?

    • Thermometer
    • Wind vane
    • Balance
    • Rain gauge

  5. Question 5

    In summer the days are…

    • dark all day
    • shorter and colder
    • always snowy
    • longer and warmer

  6. Question 6

    A table shows Alabama's rain each month. Which tool collected the data?

    • A ruler for plants
    • A thermometer
    • A compass
    • A rain gauge

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