Living and Nonliving Things - Plants and Animals NGSS Unit for 1st Grade

Learn all about plants and animals with this first grade Next Generation Science Standards aligned unit! Your students will explore living and non living things through 12 different lessons, hands-on investigations, three original books, explicit vocabulary, and more! 

Save your precious time with this perfectly planned unit all about living things and non living things. All of the lessons are planned and resourced for you, simply print and teach! Your students will remain engaged and they will absolutely LOVE learning about the numerous plants and animals included in this unit. 

Your students will learn about living things vs nonliving things, animal adaptations, parts of a plant, parents and offspring, inherited traits, heredity, and much more! 

Here’s what you’ll get in this NGSS living and non living things unit:

• 12 Scripted Lesson Plans
• Teacher Guide
• Hands on experiments and investigations
• Student Investigations Journal
• Vocabulary Cards
• 3 Projectable Books (Living and Nonliving Things, Parents & Offspring, Animal Adaptations )
• PowerPoint file includes projectable books and lesson extensions

❤️ Your students will love the key vocabulary cards with REAL images. They will completely immerse themselves into the world of plants and animals!

All of the lessons come complete with teaching instructions! You will love watching your students find joy in learning with the exciting and fun science experiments and investigations that are included. Plus, your students can practice recording their discoveries in the unique student investigations journal. 

Set your students up for success with the adaptation investigations for camouflage, webbed feet, blubber, and beaks! Additionally, your students will thoroughly enjoy the offspring STEM Challenge that is included in the living and nonliving things unit! 

All lessons cover NGSS standards: 

1. Living Things: Lesson plan, living things anchor chart, living and nonliving pocket book picture sort, living and nonliving ebook
2. Living and Nonliving Things: Lesson plan, living and nonliving things scavenger hunt & recording sheet, writing template for living things
3. Parents & Offspring: Lesson plan, parents & offspring e-book, goose & gosling venn diagram & recording sheet
4. Comparing Parents and Offspring: Lesson plan, parent and offspring partner activity comparing a parent and offspring using picture cards to match students and their animals, recording sheet, picture cards
5. Investigating Traits Part 1: Reading passage, lesson plan, traits investigation
6. Investigating Traits Part 2: Lesson plan, find a friend traits identifier activity, class eye color graph and materials
7. Parts of a Plant: Lesson plan, flower diagram, flower parts and definition sort, flipbook
8. Adaptation Files: Chameleons, bullfrog, polar bear, and hawk,
9. STEM Challenge: Adaptations 

What are teachers saying…

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ “Absolutely wonderful resource! It is filled with so many engaging activities that will help strengthen students' understanding of living things and especially the NGSS standards. Thanks so much!” - RhoLynda H. 

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ “This has been a great unit on Animals! My students enjoyed every part of it!” - Laura C. 

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ “This is going to make teaching science so much more fun!” - Sheila’s Schoolhouse

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ “So well mapped out and easy to use!” - Lodato’s Loves

The Next Generation Science Standards Covered Are:

✅ Living Organisms: 1-LS1-1

✅ Living Organisms: 1-LS1-2

✅ Living Organisms: 1-LS3-1

Check out this unit along with other NGSS units in my: NEXT GENERATION SCIENCE BUNDLE

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