NH 3rd Grade Science Curriculum
Give your child the support they need to keep up with New Hampshire 3rd grade science. Lessons and practice cover ecosystems, forces, landforms, and the solar system - right alongside what their class is learning.
About 3rd Grade New Hampshire science
New Hampshire follows the NH College and Career Ready Science Standards, which are aligned to the Next Generation Science Standards and organized around disciplinary core ideas, science and engineering practices, and crosscutting concepts. In 3rd grade, students explore ecosystems, adaptations, food chains, energy pyramids, forces, simple machines, thermal energy, landforms, earth materials, the solar system, and human impact on the environment. StudyPug provides video lessons and guided practice for every one of these topics.
- Strands: Ecosystems and Adaptations, Forces and Simple Machines, Thermal Energy, Landforms and Earth Materials, Solar System and Human Impact
- Video lessons with step-by-step explanations for every topic
- Practice problems and worked examples aligned to NH science standards
- Progress tracking so parents and students can see growth over time
Curriculum topics by strand
Lessons and practice for every 3rd grade topic, aligned to the NH College and Career Ready Science Standards.
NH 3rd Grade Science Topics
- Advanced Investigation and Foundation Review: Scientific inquiry skills, observation, and the processes that run through every strand.
- Ecosystems and Adaptations: How living things interact with their environment and the physical and behavioral traits that help them survive.
- Food Chains and Energy Pyramids: How energy moves from producers to consumers and the relationships between organisms in an ecosystem.
- Forces and Simple Machines: Pushes and pulls, how forces affect motion, and the six types of simple machines and how they make work easier.
- Thermal Energy: Heat transfer, temperature, and how thermal energy moves between objects and materials.
- Landforms and Earth Materials: Major landforms, how they are shaped over time, and the rocks, soil, and minerals that make up Earth's surface.
- Solar System and Climate: The planets, the sun, patterns of day and night, seasons, and how Earth's climate shapes life on the surface.
- Human Impact and Traditional Practices: How human activity affects the environment and how traditional knowledge informs our understanding of the natural world.
- Engineering Process and Challenge Zone: Defining problems, designing solutions, and applying science concepts to real-world engineering challenges.
How StudyPug Helps NH 3rd Grade Science Students
When a 3rd grader gets stuck on food chains or cannot picture how a lever works, StudyPug gives them a short video lesson they can replay as many times as they need. Practice problems let them check their understanding right away, and the grade 3 science help section is organized so they can jump to the exact topic causing trouble without searching through a textbook.
Parents can check in on progress and assign specific topics from the parent dashboard. If your child is moving on to the next year, the nh grade 4 science curriculum follows naturally from the concepts built in 3rd grade.
Aligned to NH 3rd Grade Science Curriculum
Every lesson on StudyPug is matched to the NH College and Career Ready Science Standards, which are aligned to the Next Generation Science Standards. That means the ecosystems, forces, landforms, and solar system content your child sees on StudyPug is the same material their teacher is covering in class - so practice at home reinforces what is being taught at school, not something different.
Written by the StudyPug Science Team
Last updated June 5, 2026
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