1st Grade
What is science?
Complete this mini-unit BEFORE you begin the first unit. What is science?
What is a scientist? Week Long Lesson Before the weather and climate unit
What is a science? Thinking Log (Google Doc)
What is science? Thinking Log (PDF)
Materials list for: What is a Scientist unit
1-ESS1-1.Use observations of the sun, moon, and stars to describe patterns that can be predicted.
1-ESS1-2.Make observations at different times of year to relate the amount of daylight to the time of year.
K–2–ETS1–1. Ask questions, make observations, and gather information about a situation people want to change to define a simple problem that can be solved through the development of a new or improved object or tool.
1-PS4-1.Plan and conduct investigations to provide evidence that vibrating materials can make sound and that sound can make materials vibrate.
1-PS4-2.Make observations to construct an evidence-based account that objects in darkness can be seen only when illuminated.
1-PS4-3.Plan and conduct investigations to determine the effect of placing objects made with different materials in the path of a beam of light.
1-PS4-4.Use tools and materials to design and build a device that uses light or sound to solve the problem of communicating over a distance.*
1-LS3-1. Make observations to construct an evidence-based account that young plants and animals are like, but not exactly like, their parents.
1-LS1-2. Read texts and use media to determine patterns in behavior of parents and offspring that help offspring survive.
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