Grade 1 Science Instructional Toolkit - Fldoe

Grade 1 Science Instructional Focus / ToolkitThe Grade 1 Science Instructional Focus Toolkit has been created to assist teachers in identifying activities that are well aligned to thestandards. This toolkit is not intended to replace your district’s curriculum or to be solely used to address the benchmarks. Care was given toidentify multiple activities that could be executed via hands-on inquiry, virtually and in some cases infused with the literacy block.Resources have been pulled from CPALMS. For all activities, a materials list resides on the first page once you click the link. There may bematerials listed that are not accessible to you. Do not let this discourage you. There are talking points and alternative activities built within theresources. Again, the toolkit serves as a suggestion of activities that can be used to support your instruction and should not be mistaken foryour course description.BenchmarkVerbiageSC.1.E.5.1Observe and discuss that thereare more stars in the sky thananyone can easily count and thatthey are not scattered evenly inthe sky.“Handy” Constellations (LessonPlan) Students exploreconstellations and learn there aremore stars in the sky than can beeasily counted.SC.1.E.5.2Explore the Law of Gravity bydemonstrating that Earth'sgravity pulls any object on ornear Earth toward it even thoughnothing is touching the object.Dive, Drop, Down (Lesson Plan)Students will discover howgravity affects household objects.Investigate how magnifiers makethings appear bigger and helppeople see things they could notsee without them.Telescopes and Constellations(Lesson Plan) Students will use areal telescope to observe howobjects appear closer in anartificial night sky. Students willcreate a telescope model andSC.1.E.5.3InstructionalGuidance andVocabularyResourcesLook Out Below! (Lesson Plan)Students test gravity’s pull withparachutes.

also make a pictorial record oftheir findings.SC.1.E.5.4Identify the beneficial andharmful properties of the Sun.Sunwise a Program that RadiatesGood Ideas: (K-2 IntroductoryLesson PowerPoint) A programthat teaches students how toprotect themselves from the sun.SC.1.E.6.1Recognize that water, rocks, soil,and living organisms are foundon Earth's surface.Your Own Backyard Studentsdiscuss and exploreenvironmental features.SC.1.E.6.2Describe the need for water andhow to be safe around waterWhy We Need Water and WaterSafety This lesson uses picturesand a story to illustrate why weneed water and the differencebetween safe and unsafepractices around water.Water Safety Fun Students willrole-play how to be safe aroundwater and learn important safetyrules.

SC.1.E.6.3Recognize that some things in theworld around us happen fast andsome happen slowly.Go With the Flow (Teaching Idea)Students experiment with asimulated river bed and learnthat erosion takes place fasterwith a young, fast-moving riverthan with a slow, older river.As the Earth Changes(Unit/Lesson Sequence) In thisPBL experience, students willexplore the ways the worldchanges around us and describethe conditions of fast and slowland changes. As teams, studentswill create various models torepresent fast and slow landchanges. Individually, studentswill create a flap book with twofast changes and two slowchanges.SC.1.L.14.1Make observations of livingthings and their environmentusing the five senses.Webcams: Animal Inquiry andObservation Students observeanimal habits and habitats usingone of the many webcamsbroadcasting from zoos andaquariums around the UnitedStates and the world in thisinquiry-based activity thatfocuses on observation logs, classdiscussion, questioning, andresearch.

Walking Stick(Image/Photograph) Thisresource is a visualrepresentation to help studentsunderstand that some animalscan camouflage themselves insuch a way as to appear to be anactual element of theirenvironment.Investigating Local Ecosystems(Lesson Plan) This lesson providesstudents with opportunities toinvestigate the habitats of localplants and animals and exploresome of the ways animalsdepend on plants and each other.SC.1.L.14.2Identify the major parts of plants,including stem, roots, leaves, andflowers.Learn About the Parts of a Plant(Lesson Plan) Students interactwith nature and provides themwith a framework for theirobservations by offering themopportunities to explore,question, and documentsimilarities and differencesamong plant parts.Growing Plants (VirtualManipulative) Students learnabout the necessaryrequirements for the growth ofthe plants like sunlight, water

and air.They can also learn and play withactivities such as labeling variousparts of the plants and test theirknowledge with a quiz.Biology of Plants (Text Resource)Topics include characteristics ofliving things, germination andgrowth, the basic parts of plants,photosynthesis, reproduction,and ecological adaptations ofplants.SC.1.L.14.3Differentiate between living andnonliving things.Living and Nonliving (TeachingIdea) Students practice howscientists observe and record.Going outside they will record intheir journal the things theyobserve under the heading theythink it belongs in - living ornonliving.Living VS nonliving (Lesson Plan)By examining video clips and stillphotographs students learnabout the characteristics thatdistinguish living things fromnonliving things. Students gatherevidence and develop criteria todecide if something is living ornonliving.

SC.1.L.16.1Make observations that plantsand animals closely resembletheir parents, but variations existamong individuals within apopulation.Same Yet Different (TeachingIdea) As a result of this activity,students will understand thatthere are differences among thesame kinds of plants and animals.Learning About Mealworms(Unit/Lesson Sequence) Studentslearn about metamorphosis andhow animals change from birthto the adult stage throughobserving and collecting data asmealworm larvae progressthrough their life cycle to theadult stage (beetles)Butterfly Life Cycle: Biography ofa Caterpillar (Lesson Plan)Students observe and writeabout the life cycle of acaterpillar.SC.1.L.17.1Through observation, recognizethat all plants and animals,including humans, need the basicnecessities of air, water, food,and space.Flower Garden (Lesson Plan)Students will determine whichflowers are the best to plant in aflower garden. The students willreceive data about the hardinessof each flower, the amount ofsun and water each needs, andthe number of flowers each plantwill produce.

Microhabitats (Lesson Plan)students explore thesurroundings of the school andobserve different types ofhabitats, recording theenvironment and whatconditions allow animals andplants to thrive there.SC.1.N.1.1Raise questions about the naturalworld, investigate them in teamsthrough free exploration, andgenerate appropriateexplanations based on thoseexplorations.A Slick Operation: Oil Spill LabSeaWorld Classroom Activity(Teaching Idea) Students will beable to demonstrate and discussthe effects of oil on a bird'sfeathers and discuss a variety ofways humans might be able toremove it.Birds' Bills (Lesson Plan) Studentswill compare and contrastdifferent kinds of birds' bills andcategorize pictures. Afterdrawing the bills in eachcategory, they will then comparethe bill types with commonhousehold items.Wiggly Worms (Lesson Plan)students will compare andcontrast red worms andearthworms through exploration

(magnifying glasses provided)and a read-aloud.SC.1.N.1.2Using the five senses as tools,make careful observations,describe objects in terms ofnumber, shape, texture, size,weight, color, and motion, andcompare their observations withothers.Blankets for Babies (Lesson Plan)Students will choose which babyblanket a store should buy to sell,based on these factors; size, howsoft it is, color, and safety.Students will rank four blanketsfrom best to worst.Classification Performance Task(Assessment) The task assessesprimary students' abilities toperform process skills such asclassification by using observabledifferences and similarities.Kool Aid Chemistry (Lesson Plan)Students will investigate dilutionwith Kool-Aid. The students willuse their five senses to explorethe solutionTaste vs. Smell (Teaching Idea)Students practice observation byusing their sense of taste andsmell.SC.1.N.1.3Keep records as appropriate such as pictorial and writtenrecords - of investigationsconducted.Focused Observation: RecordingA Hike (Lesson Plan) Studentswill learn how to focus theirobservations during a naturehike. Observation paper is

divided to record things observedabove a student's head, belowthe student's knees and inbetween the student's head andknees.SC.1.N.1.4Ask "how do you know?" inappropriate situations.How do Objects Move Engineering Design Challenge(Unit/Lesson Sequence) Studentsexplore and explain the manydifferent ways that an objectmoves and how its propertiesaffect its movements using anengineering challenge.Sink or Float? Students exploredifferent objects that may sink orfloat using science process skills.SC.1.P.12.1Demonstrate and describe thevarious ways that objects canmove, such as in a straight line,zigzag, back-and-forth, roundand-round, fast, and slow.Push and Pull Magnet Art – anEngineering Design Challenge(Lesson Plan) This EngineeringDesign Challenge is intended tohelp first grade students applythe concepts of the various waysobjects can move, and that theway to change the motion of anobject is to apply a push or apull.Investigating Motion WithMarbles Students will use 2marbles of different size and a

box to investigate what makesthe marbles move and what willcause the marbles to changespeed and direction.SC.1.P.13.1Demonstrate that the way tochange the motion of an object isby applying a push or a pull.Forces and Movement (VirtualManipulative) Learners willunderstand that pushes or pullscan make somethings speed up,slow down or change direction.The students will also identifydifferent causes that can affectspeed and movement and will beable to make simple predictionsabout the outcome of anexperiment.Give it a Push! (Lesson Plan)Students learn about forces onobjects such as a push or a pull.Students interact with items intheir classroom testing pushesand pulls. Students explore thestrength of pushes through a toyrace investigation.Playing with Science: Push & Pull(Original Tutorial) Learn how tochange the motion of an objectby applying pushing and pullingforces using a variety of toys.

SC.1.P.8.1Sort objects by observableproperties, such as size, shape,color, temperature (hot or cold),weight (heavy or light), texture,and whether objects sink or float.Observing and Sorting (UnitLesson/Sequence) Students learnto make observations that clearlydistinguish specific objects fromothers and how to sort items bydifferent attributes (e.g., color,size, weight).Shell Sorts (Lesson Plan) Studentslearn about sorting objects bytexture, size and shape.Sink or Float (Lesson Plan)Students make predictions andtest and sort a variety of objectsbased on whether they sink orfloat.Matter is EVERYWHERE Part 3(Lesson Plan) Students willclassify matter by temperature.Students will explore and cometo conclusions about thetemperature (hot or cold) ofmatter.

Grade 1 Science Instructional Focus / Toolkit The Grade 1 Science Instructional Focus Toolkit has been created to assist teachers in identifying activities that are well aligned to the standards. This toolkit is n