Living and Non-Living Things / Grade 1 / PLUS Indigenous Content

"All About Living Things" is an extensive work. It covers topics like plants, their parts, needs and explains dormancy. It covers animals, hibernation, camouflage, migration plus physical features and adaptations. All created to align with BC's NEW Curriculum for Grade 1 life science. Reading information is presented in mini-booklets and on reading pages. "Tour across Canada" and discover similarities and differences of plants and trees from the provinces & territories and their Indigenous uses. How were plants useful and used (in the past/present) by the First Peoples of Canada? Last sections include a mini-booklet on seasonal rounds (unique to this product) and compares traditional and Indigenous ways of sorting and classifying things (scientific vs Indigenous).

Contents by Page

Cover

Content Competencies

Topics Covered

Guide to Section on "Across Canada"

Living Things have Features, Behaviours, Life Cycles to Survive & Adapt in the Environment

Plants: Living Things

• Living Things Grow - sunflowers (observe & draw)
• Sunflowers have a life cycle - read & label
• Seed Packet - observe & answer questions
• Apple Seeds - blossoms grow into apples (draw an apple)
• Living Things Grow - read and draw
• Fruits & Seeds - examine 5 fruits & draw their seeds
• Living Things - cut & glue (create a sentence)

Plants: Living Things Have Needs

• Pictures - circle what a plant needs
• Plants Have Needs - mini-booklet
• Cut & paste mini-booklet
• Cut & paste pages
• Crossword listing 4 things plants need with pictures

Plants: Have Parts that Help Them Grow & Survive

• Tree parts labelled
• Plants Have a Job - song/poem
• Plants Have Parts - mini-booklet (colouring & matching plant parts)

Plants: Habitat

• Plant Parts Have a Home - video link
• Habitat - read
• Plants Depend on Their Environment
• What is a Habitat? - write (graphic organizer/word list included)

Types or Kinds of Habitats in Canada

• Types of Habitats - a read & colour booklet (in the mountains, rain forests, deserts, grasslands)

Across Canada: exploration, provincial plants, trees, connections to First Nations

• How to Draw - grass, rocks, spruce/fir/oak trees

British Columbia - read (cedar tree/rainfall/long houses/canoes)

• Pacific Dogwood - indigenous uses
• Habitats - Pacific Dogwood habitat description - draw its home
• Cut & Paste - cedar tree, Pacific Dogwood, longhouse/canoes, bow & arrow/colour dyes

Alberta - read (lodge pine, buds, medicines)

• Wild Rose - indigenous uses
• Habitats - Wild Rose habitat description - draw its home
• Cut & Paste - lodge pine, Wild Rose, vitamin C, medicines for cuts

Saskatchewan - read (white birch/"paper birch"/ruffed grouse

• Red Lily - indigenous uses
• Habitats - Red Lily habitat description - draw its home
• Cut & Paste - white birch, red lily, ruffed grouse, food thickener

Manitoba - read (white spruce/fuel/homes & shelters)

• Prairie Crocus - indigenous uses
• Habitat - Prairie Crocus habitat description - draw its home
• Cut & Paste - white spruce, prairie crocus, medicine, fuel & shelter

Ontario - read (eastern white pine/chickadee/pine warbler/red squirrel)

• White Trillium - indigenous uses
• Habitat - White Trillium habitat description - draw its home
• Cut & Paste - eastern white pine, white trillium, salads, nests

Quebec - read (yellow birch/wood alcohol, charcoal, oils, tar, light canoes)

• Blue Flag - indigenous uses
• Habitat - Blue Flag habitat description - draw its home
• PCut & Paste - yellow birth, blue flag, reduce swelling, canoes, charcoal, oil

Indigenous Uses of Plants across Canada

Atlantic Provinces - read "Red Oak"

• Red Oak colouring page

New Brunswick - read "Purple Violet"

• Habitat - draw its home

Nova Scotia - read "Mayflower"

• Habitat - draw its home

Prince Edward Island - read "Pink Lady"

• Habitat - draw its home

Newfoundland Labrador - read "Pitcher Plant'

• Habitat - draw is home

Northern Territories - read ( trees, berries, tree line, caribou, food, shelter, clothing)

• Mountain Avens -
• Habitat description

Nunavut Territory - read "Purple Saxifraga"

• Habitat - draw its home

Yukon Territory - read "Fireweed"

• Habitat description

Dormancy/Hibernation/Camouflage/Migration/Adaptations

Dormancy - read (growth stops/may look dead/taking a rest/ What causes dormancy?)

• True or False - oral quiz
• How is sleeping like dormancy? - graphic organizer (word bank included)
• How is sleeping like dormancy? - reference/comparison chart for writing support

Hibernation - read (animals that hibernate/answer the question (word bank provided)

• View & name hibernating animals (word bank included)
• Grizzly Bear - read
• Prairie Dog - read
• Video Watch - Hibernation
• What is Hibernation? - graphic organizer (word bank included)

Camouflage - read (animals change colours for protection)

• PArctic Fox - read (plus a question)
• The Leopard Tree Frog - read (plus a question)
• picture/cards (in colour) view & find the animal
• What is Camouflage? - write graphic organizer (word bank included)

Migration - read (animals move around)

• Bison - read (plus a question)
• Canada Goose - read (plus a question)
• Caribou - read (plus a question)
• What is Migration? - graphic organizer (word bank included)
• Video Watch - Migration

Adaptations - read (plus a matching question)

• Beaver - read (plus a question)
• What are Adaptations? - graphic organizer (word bank included)

Seasonal Rounds & First Nations People

• What are Seasonal Rounds? - mini-booklet

Indigenous Ways of Sorting & Classifying Plants & Animals

• Sorting & Classifying Chart - compare modern science to indigenous ways
• Plants/Living Things vs Non-Living Things - chart
• Sunflower - classify
• Grizzly Bear - classify
• Salmon - classify
• Sage - classify
• Deer & Sheep - classify

Things I Still Wonder About - graphic organizer

Questions For Further Discussion

Summary Details:

• "just-right" reading that includes a fair amount of Tier 3 (themed) words due to topics covered
• several mini-booklets
• variety of activities that include cut and paste, view and find, draw, write, colour, think and choose, match, fill in cloze with word lists and more
• Indigenous content included where applicable
• no repeat pages from other products

Recommended:

• reading support for low readers needed due to the nature of topics presented and large amount of vocabulary
• teaching of material through mini-lessons and supporting non-fiction books
• many discussions
• to introduce in term 2 or 3 of grade 1

This product has recently taken on a brand new fresh look along with a reorganization of information as well as many extras.

Please see preview for COMPLETE TABLE OF CONTENTS, ADDITIONAL DETAILS and many PAGE SAMPLES.

I acknowledge that Indigenous information is taken from sources widely available on the world wide web.

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