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Flood-Safe Storage at the Park Tennis Shed

Judge flood-protection designs for a city park tennis shed using test data, a spending limit, and predictions about deeper floods.

Grade 3ScienceInteractive · Printable

Aligned to3-ESS3-1

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14 questions
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Format: Interactive · Printable
Grade: Grade 3
Subject: Science
Question types: Fill in the blank, Multiple choice, Circle the answer, Sorting, Short answer

About this worksheet

What students practice

Students compare model test results to judge designs that reduce flood damage.
Students choose a flood-protection design using a water limit and a spending limit.
Students use evidence to predict how a design may work during a deeper flood.

How to use

Read the model-test description together and review the graph's scale. Have students judge the designs independently, then discuss how deeper water changes their recommendations.

Curriculum

NGSS standard covered

3-ESS3-1

Judge a design that reduces the damage from a weather hazard such as floods, strong winds or lightning.

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Flood-Safe Storage at the Park Tennis Shed

Use model tests to predict damage and judge storage designs.

Test the Storage Designs

Read about the model investigation. Use the graph to compare the designs.

Protecting the Tennis Records

At Juniper City Park, workers keep paper tennis score sheets in a small shed. Heavy rain once flooded the shed and soaked the papers. The park team wants a storage design that lets in less water. Wet score sheets can tear and become hard to read.

A third-grade class builds a model of the shed in a tray. Students compare four storage designs. Each design uses a tub of the same size and material. Design A is an open tub on the tray floor. Design B is an open tub on a low stand. Design C is an open tub on a tall stand. Design D is a tub with a fitted lid on the tray floor.

Students test one design at a time in the same spot. They pour two cups of room-temperature water into the same end of the tray at the same speed. After one minute, they count how many spoonfuls of water entered the tub. They use the same measuring spoon and empty and dry the tray between tests.

The model materials cost 0 tokens for A, 2 for B, 5 for C, and 4 for D. The class can spend up to 4 tokens. Its water goal is no more than 2 spoonfuls inside the tub.