Basic Needs of Plants and Animals - 1st Grade Science Animal Adaptations Unit
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Learning Objective
TSW research, explore, and test how organisms learn to survive.
Description
Learning about plant and animal adaptations is a big part of the first grade Science Standards for Organisms. This 3 week first grade life science unit gives students hands on activities, STEM challenges and literacy connections to help them understand the big idea, "Organisms have tools for survival."
THE FOLLOWING LIFE SCIENCE NEXT GEN STANDARDS ARE ADDRESSED
Organisms: 1-LS1-1, 1-LS1-2, 1-LS3-1, K-2-ETS1-2
INCLUDED IN THIS PLANT AND ANIMAL ADAPTATIONS 1ST GRADE SCIENCE UNIT
- 3 weeks of first grade science lessons
- unit outline with the big idea and essential question for each week
- weekly detailed lesson plans
- 14 objective cards plus a blank objective card
- 3 writing prompts
- organism vocab word find
- organism vocab crossword puzzle
- Living and Non-living organisms sort
- I'm An Organism poem
- Animals can-have-need anchor chart printable
- Plants can-have-need anchor chart printable
- Plants and Animals cut and paste venn diagram
- Animal baby and parent matching cards (6 pairs)
- Family traits genetics project (with 4 diversity-sensitive versions)
- Traits Tally Station Posters for 6 genetic traits
- Graphs for each of the 6 traits (eyes, earlobes, hair, tongue (curl/not curl), dimples, freckles)
- Plant parts jobs flipbook (2 versions - color & write, and make & write with a craft)
- Animal adaptations Stations - read about this in detail in the preview
- Paper materials needed for animal adaptations stations included an animal-human adaptation matching game
- STEM challenge: Copy Cat (Mimicking animal adaptations)
- 14 vocabulary word wall cards and definitions to use for matching word and definitions or find your partner games
- Anchor Chart Templates in full color and BW: see preview for chart names (answer anchor charts included)
- answer keys available for printables
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Purchase the Next Gen Science Units for First Grade to get 4 science units aligned with the second grade Next Generation Science Units.
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