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3rd grade · Science · Unit 7 of 8

Weather Hazards & Solutions

Designs that lessen the harm from floods, wind and storms.

What your child practices

Practices judging design solutions that reduce harm from weather hazards like floods, windstorms, lightning and snow, and solutions to problems when habitats change.

Maine Learning Results learning standard: 3-ESS3-1; 3-LS4-4 · comparing solutions that reduce the impacts of weather hazards and environmental change

How we explain it

Children can open this short lesson before they practice.

  1. Weather hazards include floods, windstorms, lightning, hail and snow.
  2. Designs reduce harm: seawalls, strong roofs, weather alerts.
  3. Engineers test designs to see if they work.

Example: Which design best stops a beach from washing away? Waves wear away the sand. A strong wall blocks the waves. Answer: a seawall

Weather Hazards & Solutions in Maine

In the Maine Learning Results, this is unit 7 of 8 in 3rd grade Science, after Surviving in a Habitat and before Magnet Inventions.

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: Maine Department of Education

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

    Trees planted in a row to block wind are a…

    • seawall
    • dam
    • windbreak
    • levee

  2. Question 2

    A good solution for a flood should…

    • protect people and homes
    • cost the most
    • be the hardest to build
    • make the flood bigger

  3. Question 3

    Which helps protect a town from a river flood?

    • A slide
    • A levee
    • A sandbox
    • A window

  4. Question 4

    A wetland is drained to build homes. Frogs lose their habitat. A good solution is…

    • make a new wetland nearby
    • build more homes
    • drain more wetlands
    • remove the frogs' food

  5. Question 5

    Storm shutters protect windows from…

    • snowflakes only
    • sunlight
    • strong winds
    • birds

  6. Question 6

    Hot summers dry up a pond where frogs live. Which solution helps the frogs?

    • Plant shade trees by the pond
    • Fill the pond with sand
    • Remove all plants
    • Pave around it

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