Little 1st Grade Science Thinkers {YEAR-LONG CURRICULUM} Bundle

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This is a fantastic resource to use with kiddos! So fun and engaging! They loved the lessons each day!!

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I absolutely loved this curriculum! I was able to use it all school year long. The power points were great and easy to follow, with little prep time beforehand. I liked that it also had follow-up assignments to go along with the lessons. It was engaging and my students learned a lot.

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Little SCIENCE Thinkers is a complete curriculum specifically for First Grade. It's everything you need to introduce, teach, practice, and assess your students. It is cross-referenced with and written using the main topics of state First Grade Science Standards and many NGSS (Click here for the TEKS alignment).

This full year-long curriculum contains lessons for the whole year.

The units included are:

-----UNIT 1: Light and Sound-----

Lesson 1: SCIENTISTS OBSERVE

Lesson 2: SCIENCE TOOLS AND SAFETY

Lesson 3: THE SCIENTIFIC METHOD

Lesson 4: STATES OF MATTER

Lesson 5: PROPERTIES OF MATTER

Lesson 6: SOUND AND VIBRATIONS

Lesson 7: LIGHT

Lesson 8: USING LIGHT AND SOUND TO COMMUNICATE

Lesson 9: COMMUNICATING USING LIGHT OR SOUND INVESTIGATION

Lesson 10: HANDS-ON SCIENCE STATIONS (2 DAYS)

Lesson 11: REVIEW

Lesson 12: UNIT ASSESSMENT

-----UNIT 2: Space-----

Lesson 1: EARTH'S PLACE IN SPACE

Lesson 2: THE SUN - ENERGY

Lesson 3: THE SUN - PATTERNS OF DAY AND NIGHT

Lesson 4: THE SUN - PATTERNS OF THE SEASONS

Lesson 5: OUR SOLAR SYSTEM

Lesson 6: THE MOON - CRATERS

Lesson 7: THE MOON - PHASES

Lesson 8: GRAVITY

Lesson 9: SOLAR SYSTEM INVESTIGATION

Lesson 10: HANDS-ON SCIENCE STATIONS

Lesson 11: REVIEW

Lesson 12: UNIT ASSESSMENT

-----UNIT 3: Earth's Surface-----

Lesson 1: EARTH'S SURFACE

Lesson 2: ROCKS AND MINERALS

Lesson 3: ROCK TYPES

Lesson 4: ROCK EXPLORATION

Lesson 5: NATURAL RESOURCES

Lesson 6: RENEWABLE AND NONRENEWABLE RESOURCES

Lesson 7: SOIL

Lesson 8: SOIL INVESTIGATION

Lesson 9: CARING FOR OUR RESOURCES & COMPOSTING

Lesson 10: SCIENCE STATIONS

Lesson 11: REVIEW

Lesson 12: UNIT ASSESSMENT

-----UNIT 4: Survival of Living Things-----

Lesson 1: LIVING AND NONLIVING THINGS

Lesson 2: HOW PARTS OF LIVING THINGS HELP THEM SURVIVE

Lesson 3: BIOMIMICRY INVESTIGATION

Lesson 4: OFFSPRING OF LIVING THINGS

Lesson 5: INHERITED TRAITS

Lesson 6: INHERITED TRAITS INVESTIGATION

Lesson 7: INTERDEPENDENCE OF PLANTS AND ANIMALS

Lesson 8: FOOD CHAINS

Lesson 9: SCIENCE STATIONS

Lesson 10: SCIENCE STATIONS

Lesson 11: REVIEW

Lesson 12: UNIT ASSESSMENT

-----UNIT 5: Weather-----

Lesson 1: ALL ABOUT WEATHER

Lesson 2: HOW WEATHER FORMS

Lesson 3: PRECIPITATION

Lesson 4: CLOUDS

Lesson 5: CLOUD INVESTIGATION - CREATING A CLOUD

Lesson 6: CLOUD INVESTIGATION - CLOUDS IN OUR ATMOSPHERE

Lesson 7: SEVERE WEATHER

Lesson 8: FORECASTING WEATHER

Lesson 9: CLIMATE

Lesson 10: SCIENCE STATIONS (2 DAYS)

Lesson 11: REVIEW

Lesson 12: UNIT ASSESSMENT

-----------------WHAT’S INCLUDED IN EACH UNIT?--------------------

-A complete Teacher Guide

-Printable/projectable Books for Read-Alouds

-Step-by-step, SCRIPTED Lesson Plans (Twelve, 30-minute lesson plans per unit )

-Essential Question and Learning Target posters

-Science Investigations or Hands-On Experiments

-Science Stations

-Anchor Charts

-Whole group Games and Activities

-Student Workbook that follows each lesson

-Quick Check for every lesson

-Primary-appropriate Assessment and Rubric for scoring

-Parent Letter

-A COMPLETE unit PowerPoint to guide your teaching during each and every lesson (all books, targets and workbook pages are included in the Powerpoint to help you save paper)

-------DIGITAL LEARNING?-------

Each unit in this curriculum contains a PowerPoint that guides each lesson and contains the learning targets, read aloud books, some activities, and student workbook pages. You can upload the PowerPoint to your Google Drive, open it in Google Slides, and save as a Google Slide document. (Please note, slides will not contain movable pieces.)

I also have a tutorial for using resources with the Seesaw app. You can find that HERE.

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LICENSING TERMS: This purchase includes a license for one teacher only for personal use in their classroom. Licenses are non-transferable, meaning they can not be passed from one teacher to another. No part of this resource is to be shared with colleagues or used by an entire grade level, school, or district without purchasing the proper number of licenses. If you are a coach, principal, or district interested in transferable licenses to accommodate yearly staff changes, please contact me for a quote at karen@mrsjonessclass.com .

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NGSS1-ESS1-1

Use observations of the sun, moon, and stars to describe patterns that can be predicted. Examples of patterns could include that the sun and moon appear to rise in one part of the sky, move across the sky, and set; and stars other than our sun are visible at night but not during the day. Assessment of star patterns is limited to stars being seen at night and not during the day.

NGSS1-LS1-1

Use materials to design a solution to a human problem by mimicking how plants and/or animals use their external parts to help them survive, grow, and meet their needs. Examples of human problems that can be solved by mimicking plant or animal solutions could include designing clothing or equipment to protect bicyclists by mimicking turtle shells, acorn shells, and animal scales; stabilizing structures by mimicking animal tails and roots on plants; keeping out intruders by mimicking thorns on branches and animal quills; and, detecting intruders by mimicking eyes and ears.

NGSS1-LS1-2

Read texts and use media to determine patterns in behavior of parents and offspring that help offspring survive. Examples of patterns of behaviors could include the signals that offspring make (such as crying, cheeping, and other vocalizations) and the responses of the parents (such as feeding, comforting, and protecting the offspring).

NGSS1-PS4-4

Use tools and materials to design and build a device that uses light or sound to solve the problem of communicating over a distance. Examples of devices could include a light source to send signals, paper cup and string "telephones," and a pattern of drum beats. Assessment does not include technological details for how communication devices work.

NGSS1-PS4-2

Make observations to construct an evidence-based account that objects can be seen only when illuminated. Examples of observations could include those made in a completely dark room, a pinhole box, and a video of a cave explorer with a flashlight. Illumination could be from an external light source or by an object giving off its own light.

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