Weathering, erosion, and deposition are the focus of this Grade 3 science worksheet on how water, wind, and ice change landforms over time. Students explore how moving water, wind, and ice transport soil and sediment and how these surface processes shape features such as stream channels, valleys, deltas, and hills.

What Students Explore

The resource builds understanding of how Earth's surface changes through weathering, erosion, and deposition. Students connect landform features to the processes that shape them and use a simple model or map idea to predict how a landscape may change. A reading passage provides context for applying these ideas, while a labeled diagram supports visual connections between landforms and surface processes.

Student Practice

Students work through a varied set of activities including multiple-choice questions, true-or-false statements, short-answer responses, a dialogue, matching, a cloze passage, a labeled diagram, a reading passage, and an essay. These tasks give students opportunities to identify landform features, explain sediment movement, describe changes over time, and apply their thinking to landscape change.

What's Included

• Worksheet covering water, wind, ice, weathering, erosion, deposition, and landforms
• Teacher Guide with learning objectives, teaching tips, discussion questions, and common mistakes

Classroom Use

Use this Grade 3 Earth science activity for classroom practice, independent work, review, or a lesson on Earth's systems. The teacher guide provides practical support for introducing the concepts, guiding discussion, and addressing common mistakes as students develop their understanding of changing landscapes.

With explicit practice in landform processes, sediment transport, and landscape change, this resource gives students a focused way to connect Earth's surface features with the forces that shape them. The resource is based on the NGSS framework.