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In this assignment, students will open up a Google Doc, you can have it printed as well, and fill out a table of some very useful industrial ores. The ores that will be researched are diamonds, gold, rock salt, bauxite, iron, and titanium. Students will research which 3 countries in the world are the top producers of each ore. They will then find and write 2 or more industrial uses for each ore. As they are doing their research, students will also use a map and mark where these countries are. This is great to reinforce the geography standards.

Students will have fun researching 5 unique mammals that are funny-looking and just plain strange. Students will discover some interesting facts about each one, learn how to copy and paste a picture into a Google doc document, and some of the mammals' locations.

The mammals are the Javan Rhino, the Cuban Solenodon, the Pygmy Possum, the China Baiji, and the Echidna.

This worksheet is a scavenger hunt that students can use to learn and relearn the knowledge of expository text features.  In the worksheet, students will find titles of diagrams, titles of charts, captions, keywords, bullet points, illustrations, table of contents, glossary, sidebars, titles, subtitles, and maps.

I use the Scholastic News with this worksheet, but it could work with any magazine type.

After teaching what suffixes are, use this suffix bingo game to review. There are 31 pages. One is a call sheet and the other 30 are unique bingo cards. Call off the definition and students will mark off the word with a prefix.

You can also purchase the prefix bingo game.

For more activities and resources, visit EducationalResource.org.

This 3rd-grade educational resource teaches students how to create a 1st person comic strip. Students will learn to use dialogue and illustrations to tell a story from a character's perspective. This fun and engaging activity allows students to flex their creative muscles while also developing their writing and artistic skills. By the end of the lesson, students will have a finished comic strip they can be proud of. To find more worksheets, activities, videos, and other educational content, search http://EducationalResource.org.

In this 3rd-grade worksheet, students will read a sentence and then decide whether it is talking about something literal or something nonliteral.  If it is nonliteral, students will then write what the interpretation of the figurative language should actually be; what the sentence actually means.

Purchasing this worksheet through Teachers Pay Teachers also gives you the ability to assign the worksheet digitally which will self-grade the activity.

This alphabetical order worksheet using words from Saxon Phonics lesson 12, can also be used as a competition where students are challenged to place all words in the correct alphabetical order.

In this compare and contrast activity, students will read two articles or two books, or watch two short Youtube videos about two animals.  Students will then compare and contrast the two animals, finding differences and similarities.  This is a great assignment to bring science and biology into the reading classroom.

I use either Youtube videos or short books found on GetEpic. (GetEpic is a free reading program with thousands of free, fully colored books.)

This website gives a great example of using the commutative and associative properties of addition using Skittles.  There is a video available that will help demonstrate successful implementation.

In this activity, students will partner up. They will each get a single die. They will record their first roll on the worksheet. Then roll again and multiply it by 10. Next, they will find the product of their first roll times their 2nd roll which was multiplied by 10. Finally, students will find the sum of all of their products. The player with the highest sum wins the game.

You can find other worksheets and ideas for teaching 3rd grade at 3rdGrade.xyz and EducationalResource.org.