🔬 1st grade Science

Units

1. Unit 1

   💡Light & Sound

   Sources of light and sound, loud and quiet, high and low sounds, shadows, and how light passes through glass but not walls.

   Learning standard: 1-PS4-1; 1-PS4-2; 1-PS4-3 · sound and vibration, seeing only with light, and how materials block or let through light

2. Unit 2

   🌤️Sky & Seasons

   Day and night, the sun, moon and stars (the moon reflects sunlight), and the order of the seasons.

   Learning standard: 1-ESS1-1; 1-ESS1-2 · patterns of the sun, moon and stars, and daylight through the year

3. Unit 3

   🐻Animal Survival

   Body features (thick fur, webbed feet, shells, camouflage) and behaviors (hibernating, migrating, storing food) that help animals survive.

   Learning standard: 1-LS1-1 · how animals' outside parts help them survive

4. Unit 4

   🐣Parents & Babies

   Practices how animal parents feed, protect and teach their young, and how young plants and animals are like, but not exactly like, their parents.

   Learning standard: 1-LS1-2; 1-LS3-1 · parents and offspring behave in ways that help offspring survive, and young are like their parents

5. Unit 5

   🌵Ideas from Nature

   Practices how plants and animals use their outside parts to survive, and how people copy those parts to design solutions, like burrs and hook-and-loop straps.

   Learning standard: 1-LS1-1 · designing solutions by copying how plants and animals use their outside parts

6. Unit 6

   🔦Signals Far Away

   Practices how light and sound can carry a message over a distance, from flashlights and whistles to drums and signal flags, and how to design a simple signal.

   Learning standard: 1-PS4-4 · designing devices that use light or sound to communicate over a distance

7. Unit 7

   🌱Plant Parts at Work

   Practices what each outside part of a plant does to help it survive and grow, from roots that drink water to thorns that keep animals away.

   Learning standard: 1-LS1-1 · how plants use their outside parts to survive and grow