Fun science games for year 3

Each plant part has a distinct job, and roots, stems, leaves, flowers, and seeds work with sunlight, water, and air to help the whole plant live, grow, and begin a new generation.

Weather clues such as clouds, temperature, wind, and repeating observations help us describe current conditions, prepare sensibly, and make simple forecasts that are predictions rather than promises.

Palaeontologists identify dinosaurs by comparing combinations of fossil features—such as skulls, horns, plates, claws, limb proportions, and tails—rather than guessing from one bone.

A living thing passes through stages in a particular order, and reproduction links the adult stage to a new generation so the pattern repeats as a life cycle.

A biome's long-term temperature and rainfall shape its vegetation, which determines which plants, animals, and food chains can survive there.

The ocean changes in zones with depth: sunlight fades, temperature falls, and pressure rises, so animals need different adaptations to live at different depths.

As altitude increases, Earth’s air gets gradually thinner: birds and airplanes need enough air, balloons rise into thin air, and satellites orbit above almost all of it.

Constellations are recognizable patterns we see from Earth: their stars are real, but the connecting lines are imaginary guides, and hemisphere and season change which patterns are easiest to find.

Electric current flows only around one complete, unbroken loop; a switch controls that loop but is not the same as a broken wire, and every component in a series circuit shares the same route.

Equal opposing forces balance and keep an object still; when one opposing force is bigger, the object moves in that force's direction, regardless of headcount.

Fossils are clues preserved in rock; palaeontologists carefully uncover their shapes and positions, then fit that evidence together to infer what an extinct animal looked like.

Simple machines make jobs easier by trading force for distance or changing the direction of a force; they do not remove the load's weight or create energy.

A rainforest has four vertical layers, and different animals fit each layer because light, food, movement routes, moisture, and safety change from top to bottom.

Rock types are stages in a cycle: cooling makes igneous rock, surface weathering plus deposition and cementing makes sedimentary rock, heat and pressure make metamorphic rock, and melting returns rock to magma.