Little 1st grade Science Thinkers Curriculum
$79.95
Little First Grade SCIENCE Thinkers is a complete science curriculum specifically for first grade. It’s everything you need to introduce, teach, practice, and assess your students. It incorporates the NGSS standards, 2024 Texas TEKS standards, as well as many other state standards for 1st grade science. This curriculum was completely researched, designed, and created by Karen Jones.
This full year-long curriculum contains lessons for the whole year. There are 5 full unit plans.
—————–WHAT’S INCLUDED IN EACH UNIT?——————–
-A complete Teacher Guide
-9 Printable/projectable Books for Read-Alouds
-13 Step-by-step, Scripted Lesson Plans (approx. 30 minute lessons)
-Essential Question and Learning Target posters
-Science Investigations or Hands-On Experiments
-Science Stations
-Anchor Charts
-Whole group Games and Activities
-Student Workbook that follows each lesson
-Quick Check for every lesson
-Primary-appropriate Assessment and Rubric for scoring
-Parent Letter
-13 PowerPoints to guide your teaching during every lesson (all books, targets, activity and workbook pages are included in the PowerPoint to help you save paper)
UNIT 1: Matter and Energy
Lesson 1: SCIENTISTS OBSERVE
Lesson 2: SCIENCE TOOLS AND SAFETY
Lesson 3: THE SCIENTIFIC METHOD
Lesson 4: STATES OF MATTER
Lesson 5: PROPERTIES OF MATTER
Lesson 6: HOW MATTER CHANGES (2 DAY LESSON)
Lesson 7: ENERGY (Focus on Heat Energy)
Lesson 8: SOUND AND VIBRATIONS
Lesson 9: LIGHT
Lesson 10: USING LIGHT AND SOUND TO COMMUNICATE
Lesson 11: COMMUNICATING USING LIGHT OR SOUND INVESTIGATION
Lesson 12: HANDS-ON SCIENCE STATIONS (2 DAYS)
Lesson 13: REVIEW
Lesson 14: UNIT ASSESSMENT
UNIT 2: Space
Lesson 1: EARTH’S PLACE IN SPACE
Lesson 2: THE SUN – ENERGY
Lesson 3: PATTERNS OF DAY AND NIGHT
Lesson 4: PATTERNS OF THE SEASONS
Lesson 5: PATTERNS OF DAYLIGHT
Lesson 6: OUR SOLAR SYSTEM
Lesson 7: THE MOON – CRATERS
Lesson 8: THE MOON – PHASES
Lesson 9: GRAVITY
Lesson 10: SOLAR SYSTEM INVESTIGATION
Lesson 11: HANDS-ON SCIENCE STATIONS
Lesson 12: REVIEW
Lesson 13: UNIT ASSESSMENT
UNIT 3: Earth’s Surface
Lesson 1: EARTH’S SURFACE
Lesson 2: ROCKS AND MINERALS
Lesson 3: ROCK TYPES
Lesson 4: ROCK EXPLORATION
Lesson 5: NATURAL RESOURCES
Lesson 6: RENEWABLE AND NONRENEWABLE RESOURCES
Lesson 7: SOIL
Lesson 8: SOIL INVESTIGATION
Lesson 9: CARING FOR OUR RESOURCES & COMPOSTING
Lesson 10: SCIENCE STATIONS
Lesson 11: REVIEW
Lesson 12: UNIT ASSESSMENT
UNIT 4: Survival of Living Things
Lesson 1: LIVING AND NONLIVING THINGS
Lesson 2: HOW PARTS OF LIVING THINGS HELP THEM SURVIVE
Lesson 3: BIOMIMICRY INVESTIGATION
Lesson 4: OFFSPRING OF LIVING THINGS
Lesson 5: INHERITED TRAITS
Lesson 6: INHERITED TRAITS INVESTIGATION
Lesson 7: INTERDEPENDENCE OF PLANTS AND ANIMALS
Lesson 8: FOOD CHAINS
Lesson 9: SCIENCE STATIONS
Lesson 10: SCIENCE STATIONS
Lesson 11: REVIEW
Lesson 12: UNIT ASSESSMENT
UNIT 5: Weather
Lesson 1: ALL ABOUT WEATHER
Lesson 2: HOW WEATHER FORMS
Lesson 3: PRECIPITATION
Lesson 4: CLOUDS
Lesson 5: CLOUD INVESTIGATION – CREATING A CLOUD
Lesson 6: CLOUD INVESTIGATION – CLOUDS IN OUR ATMOSPHERE
Lesson 7: SEVERE WEATHER
Lesson 8: FORECASTING WEATHER
Lesson 9: CLIMATE
Lesson 10: SCIENCE STATIONS (2 DAYS)
Lesson 11: REVIEW
Lesson 12: UNIT ASSESSMENT
