A focus will also be on expanding vocabulary, reading fluently, and engaging in daily silent reading. Third-graders explore economics, Our American Heritage, world interactions, and geography through a variety of themes. During the American heritage theme, students discuss citizenship, rights and responsibilities, and the democratic process. In fourth grade, social studies gives special emphasis on Ohio, its past and its people. This emphasis is linked to other states and the world.
Students also study state government and the democratic process.
The main focus of third-grade math is multiplication. Division concepts are linked to multiplication. Also, geometry, fractions, time, money and measurement are taught through the use of manipulatives. Emphasis is placed on using these concepts to solve real-life problems. The third-grade science topics are vertebrates, aquatic biomes, life cycles and systems, physical and chemical change, natural disasters, flight and aerodynamics, and the solar system.