Grade 3 Phenomena Poster Bundle

Bring phenomenon-based science instruction to life with this complete Grade 3 Phenomena Bundle.

This bundle includes all four Grade 3 science units and provides 24 full-color phenomena posters designed to spark curiosity, strengthen science vocabulary, encourage meaningful classroom discussion, and develop students’ ability to construct explanations using evidence.

Each unit includes six individual portrait posters centered around engaging science phenomena. Students observe carefully, ask questions, identify patterns, make predictions, discuss possible explanations, and revisit their thinking as their scientific understanding grows.

These posters are designed to be active instructional tools rather than simple classroom decorations. Use them to launch learning, guide discussion, support science focus walls, reinforce important concepts, and build scientific reasoning throughout the year.

Units Included

• Balancing Forces
• Inheritance and Traits
• Environments and Survival
• Weather and Climate

Each unit includes six phenomena posters for a total of 24 posters in the complete Grade 3 bundle.

What’s Included on Each Phenomena Poster

Every poster features a high-interest phenomenon question paired with a detailed science visual or real-world scene. Students are supported with “What do you notice?” observations, “What do you wonder?” questions, key science vocabulary, a “Try This Thinking” challenge, a CER Starter for Claim, Evidence, and Reasoning practice, and a concise science statement reinforcing the central concept.

Balancing Forces

Help students investigate how forces affect objects and motion through engaging real-world situations.

Students explore pushes and pulls, balanced and unbalanced forces, gravity, support forces, magnetism, motion, and forces that can act without direct contact.

Phenomena such as tug-of-war, objects resting on surfaces, magnetic interactions, and floating-train engineering help make otherwise invisible forces easier for students to visualize and explain.

Students are encouraged to identify the forces acting on an object, compare their strength and direction, and use evidence to explain why an object moves or remains still.

Inheritance and Traits

Help students explore why offspring resemble their parents while still having their own unique characteristics.

Students investigate inherited traits, variation, similarities and differences among organisms, and patterns that appear within families and populations.

The visual phenomena encourage students to compare characteristics, identify patterns, ask questions, and develop explanations about how traits can be passed from one generation to the next.

These posters make inheritance concepts more concrete by giving students visible examples they can observe and discuss.

Environments and Survival

Help students investigate how organisms survive in different environments.

Students explore relationships among traits, structures, behaviors, environmental conditions, and survival while considering why certain characteristics may be useful in particular habitats.

The phenomena encourage students to examine an organism, identify the environmental challenges it faces, and explain how particular traits or behaviors may help it survive.

This unit also provides natural opportunities to connect science with biomimicry and engineering as students consider how useful structures found in nature can inspire human designs.

Weather and Climate

Help students investigate weather patterns and develop a stronger understanding of the difference between weather and climate.

Students explore temperature, precipitation, wind, clouds, weather observations, regional differences, and long-term patterns.

The visual phenomena encourage students to compare conditions, examine evidence over time, identify patterns, and use those patterns to develop explanations and predictions.

Students begin recognizing that individual weather events can change quickly while climate describes patterns observed over much longer periods.

Build Strong Notice and Wonder Routines

Every poster provides a ready-to-use opportunity for students to investigate before being given an explanation.

Students can slow down, examine visual evidence, describe what they notice, generate questions, compare ideas with classmates, and begin developing possible explanations.

Using the same Notice and Wonder structure throughout all four units creates a familiar scientific routine while the changing phenomena keep students interested and challenged.

Develop Scientific Reasoning Throughout the Year

These posters encourage students to move beyond simply providing the “right answer.”

Students begin with observations and initial ideas, gather additional evidence through instruction and investigation, and then return to the phenomenon to revise their explanations.

This repeated process reinforces an important understanding about science: explanations become stronger when they are supported by evidence.

Build CER Skills Across 24 Phenomena

Every poster includes a student-friendly Claim, Evidence, and Reasoning Starter.

Students practice making a claim about what is happening, identifying evidence from the phenomenon, and explaining how that evidence supports their conclusion.

With 24 different phenomena across four areas of science, students receive repeated opportunities to develop stronger oral and written scientific explanations throughout the year.

Strengthen Science Vocabulary in Context

Important vocabulary is introduced alongside the phenomena where students can immediately connect new terminology with something meaningful.

Students are not simply memorizing isolated definitions. They are using scientific language while observing, comparing, discussing, modeling, and explaining.

Keeping the posters displayed throughout each unit also creates an ongoing visual vocabulary reference students can use during discussions and written responses.

Create an Interactive Science Focus Wall

These posters work especially well as part of a science focus wall.

Introduce one phenomenon at a time as your class progresses through a unit, or display several together so students can compare ideas and recognize connections.

Because each poster contains observation prompts, vocabulary, thinking challenges, and CER support, your focus wall becomes an instructional space students can actively use rather than simply a decorative classroom display.

Flexible for Many Classroom Uses

Use the collection for whole-group science instruction, phenomenon launches, science focus walls, Notice and Wonder routines, small-group instruction, science centers, science notebook responses, vocabulary development, CER practice, partner discussions, morning science discussions, unit introductions, review, reinforcement, assessment conversations, and classroom displays.

Use the Posters Before, During, and After Instruction

Before instruction, introduce a phenomenon and collect students’ initial ideas.

During the unit, revisit the poster as students gather evidence, learn new vocabulary, and develop models.

After instruction, return to the original phenomenon and ask students to explain it again using what they now understand.

This creates a simple but powerful way for students to recognize how their scientific thinking has changed and become more sophisticated.

Save With the Complete Grade 3 Collection

Purchasing the complete bundle gives you all four Grade 3 units in one cohesive collection.

You receive four complete science units, six phenomena posters per unit, and 24 total phenomena posters with consistent formatting and instructional routines throughout the collection.

Students become familiar with the structure while encountering entirely new science content in every unit.

The result is a yearlong visual system that supports life science, physical science, Earth science, scientific reasoning, vocabulary development, and evidence-based explanation.

A Yearlong Phenomenon-Based Science Resource

With 24 different phenomena spanning forces and motion, inheritance, organism survival, weather, and climate, this bundle provides a substantial collection of instructional materials that can support Grade 3 science throughout the year.

Whether you use the posters to launch a lesson, develop a science focus wall, support discussion, reinforce vocabulary, practice CER, or revisit important concepts, students receive repeated opportunities to observe, question, reason, and communicate like scientists.

Important Disclaimer

This resource is independently created and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, sponsored by, or produced by Amplify Education. The use of “Amplify” in the product title is intended only to help educators identify the curriculum topics with which this supplemental resource may be used. Amplify Education owns its respective trademarks and curriculum materials.