This teacher resource offers a detailed introduction to the Hands-On Science and Technology program (guiding principles, implementation guidelines, an overview of the science skills that grade 3 students use and develop) and a classroom assessment plan complete with record-keeping templates. It also includes connections to the Achievement Levels as outlined in The Ontario Curriculum Grades 1-8 Science and Technology (2007). This resource has four instructional units: Unit 1: Growth and Changes in Plants; Unit 2: Strong and Stable Structures; Unit 3: Forces Causing Movement ; Unit 4: Soils in the Environment. Each unit is divided into lessons that focus on specific curricular expectations. Each lesson has curriculum expectation(s) lists ; materials lists ; activity descriptions ; assessment suggestions ; activity sheet(s) and graphic organizer(s).

"Units relate directly to the learning expectations which complement those in the Ontario Curriculum, Grades 1-8: Science and Technology, 2008 document." Includes bibliographical references.