Third Grade Weather and Climate Assessment

Looking for a concise, meaningful, standards-based assessment for your third grade unit on Weather and Climate?  Look no further!  This short-answer assessment addresses all of the standards in the third grade “Weather and Climate” NGSS strand.  This assessment uses actual data from around the world as the starting point for students showing their analytical and interpretive skills.  This product also includes an accommodated assessment with sentence starters to provide support in writing.

Standards addressed:

3-ESS2-1. Represent data in tables and graphical displays to describe typical weather conditions expected during a particular season.

3-ESS2-2. Obtain and combine information to describe climates in different regions of the world.

3-ESS3-1. Make a claim about the merit of a design solution that reduces the impacts of a weather-related hazard.