2. Cause and Effect 3rd grade, Language Arts Mary Ruebusch McCurdy School Click for Click for Teacher Page

3. Teacher Page Objective: The learner will review cause and effect. Activity: The learner will read, discuss, and journal cause and effect as observed in common changes. Procedure: View slides, discuss, and journal.

4. Most things on earth change.

5. Animals change. How are they different? How are they alike?

6. Changes have different causes. What are some changes on this page?

7. What caused this change? Write the cause in your journal.

8. What did you write? I think a person ate the apple. Click for an answer

9. What will happen to the caterpillar? Share with a partner.

10. Did you guess that it would become a butterfly? What caused this change?

11. In the life cycle of the butterfly it changes from an egg to a caterpillar to a cocoon and finally to a butterfly.

12. One day Alex saw a bird beside a puddle. Later both the bird and puddle were missing.

13. What happened to the bird? Click for answer

14. It probably flew away.

15. What happened to the puddle? What state of matter changed? Click for answer

16. The water in the puddle may have evaporated. Liquid water changed to gas

17. Name 2 possible causes for the change in the puddle. Heat from the sun. Wind moving the air. Click for answers The end