Grade 1 Science
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18 ready-to-teach lessons
Life Science · Animal Structures
Animal Body Parts & Functions
Observe external animal parts, connect each structure to a useful function, gather simple evidence, and use one animal idea in a simple design.
Interactive Activity · Worksheet · Investigation · Teacher Slides
Life Science · Families & Traits
Young Plants & Animals: Like Their Parents
Look closely at animal and plant families. Young living things can share traits with their parents and still be different in some ways.
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Life Science · Plant Structures
Plant Parts & Their Jobs: Roots, Stems, Leaves & Flowers
Look closely at a whole plant, connect roots, stems, leaves, flowers, and fruits to useful jobs, then use observations from a simple stem-water investigation as evidence.
Interactive Activity · Worksheet · Investigation · Teacher Slides
Life Science · Plant Responses
Plants Respond to Light: Which Way Will a Plant Grow?
Use a sequence of plant observations to notice that a growing plant can bend toward a light source, then plan a simple fair test that changes only the direction of light.
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Life Science · Animal Survival
Camouflage & Animal Survival: How Colors and Patterns Help Animals Hide
Compare animals with their surroundings, look for color and pattern matches, and use evidence from a simple spotting test to explain how camouflage can make an animal harder to see.
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Life Science · Animal Activity Patterns
Nocturnal & Diurnal Animals: Who Is Active When?
Use repeated picture observations to compare animals active mostly in daylight with animals active mostly at night, then use time-of-day evidence to identify an activity pattern.
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Life Science · Plants and Patterns
Seed to Seedling: How Germination Begins
Observe bean seeds over several days, compare damp and dry setups, and use visible changes to explain what helps germination begin.
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Life Science · Animals and Evidence
Animal Tracks & Signs: What Clues Show an Animal Was Here?
Study safe prepared clues such as tracks, feathers, feeding marks, and nests to make careful claims about animal activity without needing to see the animal.
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Life Science · Families & Traits
How Parents and Young Help Each Other
Use picture and text media to find patterns in observable behaviors between animal parents and young.
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Life Science · Animal Structures
The Five Senses: How We Observe the World
Use sight, hearing, touch, smell, and taste as safe sources of information, and practice telling an observation from a guess.
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Life Science · Living Things
Living vs. Nonliving Things
Compare familiar examples and use patterns of needs, growth, and reproduction to tell living things from nonliving things without relying on movement alone.
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Physical Science · Light & Sound
Light Helps Us See
Can you see a toy in the dark? Compare the same object with the light off and on. Then find things that make their own light.
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Physical Science · Light & Sound
Shadows & Light Direction
Move a flashlight around the same object. Observe how a shadow changes when the light comes from a new direction or distance.
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Physical Science · Light & Sound
What Happens When Light Hits Materials?
Keep one light setup fixed, test four materials, and use the observed light patches as evidence.
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Physical Science · Light & Sound
Communicating with Light & Sound
Use flashes, taps, and simple patterns to design a signal that sends information across a distance.
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Physical Science · Light & Sound
Sound & Vibrations: How Sounds Are Made
Tap, pluck, watch, and listen. Notice that vibrating materials move back and forth and can make sound. Then observe that sound can make other materials vibrate.
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Space Science · Sky Patterns
Sun, Moon & Stars: Patterns in the Sky
Use repeated sky observations to notice patterns in the Sun, Moon, stars, day and night, and the amount of daylight at different times of year.
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Life Science · Nature-Inspired Design
Biomimicry: Design Like Plants & Animals
Notice how plant and animal structures do useful jobs. Then use one useful job to build and test a simple solution.
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Life Science
Animal Body Parts & Functions · Young Plants & Animals: Like Their Parents · Plant Parts & Their Jobs: Roots, Stems, Leaves & Flowers · Plants Respond to Light: Which Way Will a Plant Grow? · Camouflage & Animal Survival: How Colors and Patterns Help Animals Hide · Nocturnal & Diurnal Animals: Who Is Active When? · Seed to Seedling: How Germination Begins · Animal Tracks & Signs: What Clues Show an Animal Was Here? · How Parents and Young Help Each Other · The Five Senses: How We Observe the World · Living vs. Nonliving Things · Biomimicry: Design Like Plants & Animals
12 lessons
Physical Science
Light Helps Us See · Shadows & Light Direction · What Happens When Light Hits Materials? · Communicating with Light & Sound · Sound & Vibrations: How Sounds Are Made
5 lessons
Space Science
Sun, Moon & Stars: Patterns in the Sky
1 lesson