3rd Grade

TEKS: SCI 2.12B; SCI 3.12B

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Topics: food chains; ecosystems; producers and consumers; bees; herbivores, omnivores, carnivores; flow of energy in a food chain; interdependence

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Description: Join Eco the Alien in learning all about the importance of bees and the flow of energy through ecosystems.

TEKS: SCI K.13C, SCI 2.12C, SCI 2.13A, SCI 3.12A, SCI 3.13B

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Keywords: life cycles; plant life cycles; plant parts; seeds; dormancy; plant growth; interdependence

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Description: Come sing along and learn about the life cycle of a tomato plant!

TEKS: SCI 1.13C, SCI 2.13D, SCI 3.13B

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Keywords: life cycles; insect life cycles; butterfly life cycle; grasshopper life cycle; ladybug life cycle

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Description: Come sing along and learn about the life cycle of our little friends, INSECTS!

TEKS: SCI 1.12C, SCI 2.12B, SCI 3.12B

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Keywords: food chain; interdependence; basic needs; producers and consumers; flow of energy in a food chain

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Description: Eco the Alien is hard at work preparing a feast for an owl! But does he need to cook for an owl, and does he have the right ingredients? Learn all about food chains!

TEKS: SCI 1.13C, SCI 2.13D, SCI 3.13B

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Keywords: life cycles; frog life cycle

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Description: Come sing along and learn about the life cycle of our slimy friends, FROGS!

TEKS: SCI K.13B, SCI 1.13A, SCI 2.13B, SCI 3.13A

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Keywords: animal traits and characteristics; external structures of animals; animal behaviors; animal groupings

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Description: Don your Eco-Dex Glasses along with Eco the Alien and Museum Educator Danni to learn all about the characteristics and adaptive traits of animals!

TEKS: SCI 3.6B, SCI 3.6C, SCI 4.6A, SCI 5.6A, SCI 5.8B

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Keywords: states of matter; changes in states of matter; solids, liquids, and gasses; freezing, melting, condensation, evaporation

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Description: Welcome to Mind Your Matter! the only gameshow that matters! In this episode our contestants are given their greatest task yet—will they meet their final challenge?

TEKS: SCI 3.6C, SCI 3.6D, SCI 4.6B, SCI 4.6C, SCI 5.6B, SCI 5.6C

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‍Keywords: mixtures and solutions; magnetism; evaporation; physical properties of matter

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‍Description: Welcome to Mind Your Matter! the only gameshow that matters! In this episode our contestants are given a mixture and challenged to separate it out into its components.

TEKS: SCI 3.6A, SCI 4.6A, SCI 5.6A

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‍Keywords: sink or float; density; mass and volume; physical properties of matter;

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‍Description: Welcome to Mind Your Matter! the only gameshow that matters! In this episode our contestants must make predictions about whether two objects will sink or float when placed in water.

TEKS: SCI 3.6A, SCI 4.6A, SCI 4.7, SCI 5.6A

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‍Keywords: magnetism; magnetic poles; physical properties of matter

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‍Description: Welcome to Mind Your Matter! the only gameshow that matters. In this episode our contestants will be challenged to demonstrate the force of magnetism! What could possibly go wrong?

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TEKS: SCI 3.6A, SCI 3.6B, SCI 4.6A, SCI 5.6A

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‍Keywords: mass; volume; measuring mass and volume; physical properties of matter

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‍Description: Welcome to Mind Your Matter! the only gameshow that matters. In this episode, our contestants will be challenged to measure the mass and volume of different objects. Who will measure the most accurately?

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TEKS: SCI 3.6B, SCI 3.6C, SCI 4.6A, SCI 5.6A

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‍Keywords: states of matter; changes in states of matter; solids, liquids, and gasses; freezing, melting, condensation, evaporation

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‍Description: Welcome to Mind Your Matter! the only gameshow that matters! In this episode our contestants must take an object and change the state of its matter. Where will they land—liquid, solid, or gas?

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TEKS: SCI.2.8A; SCI.2.8B; SCI.3.8A; SCI3.8B; SCI.4.8B‍

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Topics: solar system, sun, moon, planets, earth, gravity, orbit, revolution, rotation

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‍‍Description: Sing along and learn about the sun, moon, and planets, and how gravity plays into their orbits and rotations.

TEKS: SCI.3.9C‍

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Topics: earths surface, landforms, mountains, hills, valleys, plains, volcanoes, earthquakes, landslides, erosion, plate tectonics

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Description: Sing along and learn about how natural events such as volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, and landslides can make rapid changes to Earth's surface.

TEKS: SCI.3.7A; SCI.3.7B; SCI.4.7A; SCI.5.7A‍

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Topics: mechanical energy, energy, rubber bands, elasticity, potential energy, kinetic energy, stored energy, movement, force, gravity‍

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Description: Sing along and learn about what mechanical energy is, how it can be stored, and how it relates to force and motion.

TEKS: SCI.3.6B; SCI.3.6C; SCI.4.6D

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Topics: force, motion, movement, chain reactions, simple machines, gravity‍

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Description: Sing along and learn about how forces push and pull on objects to change their position.

TEKS: SCI.1.10A; SCI1.11A; SCI2.10A; SCI.3.7A; SCI.4.7.A

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‍Topics: soil, soil formation, humus, decomposition, weathering, nutrients, animal remains, plant remains

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‍Description: Sing along and learn about how soil is formed, and how you can use waste to create nutrient rich soil called humus, or compost.