Today's world demands more than Three Rs (reading,  writing, and arithmetic), today's workplace looks for graduates that are also proficient in soft skills. These soft skills are also known as the 21st century skills: critical thinking, collaboration, creativity, and...

How did you learn your multiplication facts? Did you just memorize your multiplication table? Or did you have other strategies? In third grade, multiplication is a big chunk of our math program. It is the time when kids are expected to learn how to multiply. But...

Pacific Northern Academy is committed to providing a remarkable educational experience where students are encouraged to explore their passions and creativity. How does that look like in the third grade classroom? ​1. A new science unit was introduced with an activity...

In PNA, our curriculum is geared towards developing emotional intelligence, effective communication skills, and influential leadership. In third grade, students have been reading narrative nonfiction, specifically biographies, texts about real people who have done...

According to John Larmer, BIE'S PBL Editor in Chief, "Of all the Essential Project Design Elements, you could argue it’s “Public Product” that most makes PBL stand out as different from traditional instruction. In some non-PBL classrooms you might find, say, a...

In third grade, students are expected to write narratives using effective technique, descriptive details, and clear event sequences. Students learned how to stretch out small moments with intricate details that convey strong feelings turning these small moments into...

Authentic learning involves real life tasks that provides students opportunities to connect directly to the real world. In third grade, as students work on their weather project, students are given the following real-world tasks to show them the connection between...

Helen Fowler Neville, a pediatric nurse and author of Is This a Phase? Child Development & Parent Strategies, Birth to 6 Years, claims that a 6-year old child may stay interested on a single activity for as much as 30 minutes. In third grade, there are days when...

When third graders were asked what they learned from their Social Studies project, one of the students wrote, "the most important thing I learned is to help people even if they're far away." The student was, then, asked to elaborate his answer, "What do you mean help...

Kids delight in learning about the world and to learn about the world, students need to read nonfiction books. As students get older, the amount of nonfiction reading increases. As adults, reading nonfiction text is a part of our daily lives: reading instructions,...