How to teach Year 3 Science!
Explore how you can use Developing Experts to boost your Year 3 learner's science skills and knowledge and help them transition from Key Stage 1 to Key Stage 2.
Our interactive science platform provides over 700 lessons for children, age 4-14. Today, we are exploring how we teach Year 3 science and best practice in teaching Year 3. In this blog, discover how we help your Year 3 learner develop their science knowledge and skills as they make the transition from key stage 1 to key stage 2.
KS2 national curriculum science Year 3:
Mission: Science allows you to g ive children the smoothest transition to Key Stage 2 with Developing Experts’ Year 3 online science curriculum. With over 60 science lessons covering subjects such as plants, fossils, magnetism and far more, we offer a wide spectrum of learning experiences in different science subjects.
All lessons are divided into units which match the Year 3 science National Curriculum, ensuring your students are getting a full, enriching science education. Our platform means you can share the wonder of learning alongside children, ensuring a connect between teacher and student, making that memorable journey together.
Year 3 science lesson plans:
Get a head-start on planning your science education with our comprehensive lesson and course planning feature. All science lesson plans guide you smoothly through our multi-sensory slideshow, explain how to respond to activities and tasks and offer challenging objectives for children to meet.
Detailing the resources and knowledge you need to confidently deliver the lesson to children, our lesson plans will give you the structure and assurance you need.
Fun experiments, quizzes and worksheets for Year 3 science:
Encourage a love of learning for children with our broad range of science activities designed for children aged 7-8. Take learners through a series of enquiries and practical investigations, such as making their own periscope, creating a model skeleton and taking an imprint in time to the create a fossil.
Complementing the activities, our stimulating quizzes give children the chance to put their knowledge to the test. Assess progress further using our visually-appealing science worksheets and investigation templates.
With Developing Experts, we help create the scientists of the future. Our online tools offer the perfect way for children to revise key stage 2 science content through subtle learning approaches. From our storytelling theme; to individualised user areas for children to navigate; to multimedia quizzes, and modelling and drawing of diagrams, there is something to cater for all learning styles and approaches.
Want to know more?
We’re giving you a free 14 day trial of Developing Experts so that you can explore our Year 3 learning content, as well as the rest of our 700+ lessons! During your free trial, you’ll have access to all of our teaching and learning content. From expert videos to printable science worksheets, Developing Experts provides you with a complete science teaching resource for your Year 3 students.
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In the following weeks, we will be giving you an insight into how we teach science from year 1, right through to KS3 on the Developing Experts blog.
Read all about how we teach Year 4 science here.
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Read all about how we teach Year 6 science here.