1st Grade
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Unit 5: Characteristics of Living Things
Key Essential Questions:
What are some ways plants and animals meet their needs so they can grow and survive?
How does the behavior of the parent help the offspring survive?
How are parents and offspring similar and different?
Transfer Goals: Students will be able to use their learning to
Read text and use media to identify patterns [in survival behaviors that aid parent and offspring.
Use observations to make an evidence-based account comparing patterns that offspring are similar but different from their parents.
March 16 - 20
Characteristics of Living Things - Organism Structures
During our last class we discussed the different structures organisms have and need in order to survive. Moving forward we'll learn what these structures are some ways animals meet their needs in order to survive.
Next Generation Science Standard: 1-LS3-1. Make observations to construct an evidence-based account that young plants and animals are like, but not exactly like, their parents.
March 23 - 27
Unit 6: Mimicking Organisms to Solve Problems
Key Essential Questions:
â—Ź What can we learn from how plants and animals meet their needs, survive, and grow?
Transfer Goals - Students will be able to use their learning to:
Construct explanations and design solutions to a human problem (mimicking how plants and animals use their parts to survive).
Research situations in order to solve a simple problem by developing a tool or object.
Design a simple sketch, drawing, or model to illustrate that an object’s shape functions to solve a problem.
Engineering Design Challenge
With last week's lesson, you learned about a few animal structures and ways their needs are met in order to survive. This week we're learning about biomimicry. Check out this Power Point presentation to learn about how humans mimic or get ideas from plant and animal structures. Click on the link below but don't forget, we get lots of ideas from animals also!
STEM Activity: Your challenge is to design a solution to a human problem - Can you think of ways we mimic animals - turtle shells and helmets, a giraffe's long neck and ladders, fish fins and flippers that divers use? "My glass is too tall for me to drink out of." Is there an animal or plant I can mimic to help me with this problem? A hummingbird uses a long beak to reach deep inside a flower. I could use a straw to help me! You can build this solution with material around your home or illustrate a model of your design solution.
Next Generation Science Standard: 1-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 need.
March 30 - April 3
Take this week to catch up on your lessons and make sure you check out the links to the Mystery Science Mini-Lessons. Mystery Doug is waiting for you! Don't forget to stay curious over spring break!
April 17 - Unified Arts Enrichment Friday
April 24 - Unified Arts Enrichment Friday
May 1 - Unified Arts Enrichment Friday
May 4 - 13
Unit 5: Characteristics of Living Things
Key Essential Questions:
What are some ways plants and animals meet their needs so they can grow and survive?
How does the behavior of the parent help the offspring survive?
How are parents and offspring similar and different?
Transfer Goals: Students will be able to use their learning to
Read text and use media to identify patterns [in survival behaviors that aid parent and offspring.
Use observations to make an evidence-based account comparing patterns that offspring are similar but different from their parents.