1st Grade Curriculum

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Required FOSS kit

Suggested Activities and Resources

1st Grade Physical Science

1.1

Students will describe an object before and after change of state in terms of observable properties./03.02.02

Liquids and Solids
GEMS: Involving Dissolving
GEMS: Liquid Explorations
GEMS: Secret Formulas

1.2

Students will independently manipulate appropriate objects to produce various sound by vibrations. Classify the sound produced in terms of properties of pitch and tone./03.02.03

Sound : activity 1
Music class activities
Resource: ESS pg. 217 - 239 (Sound)

1st Grade Life Science

1.3

Students will provide examples of how living things grow and change, with some assistance./06.02.01

New Plants
Resource: ESS pg. 139 - 153 (Animals)
pg. 154 - 169 (Plants)

1.4

Students will classify living and non-living things according to established criteria, with few errors./06.02.02

New Plants
Resource: ESS pg. 139 - 153 (Animals)
pg. 154 - 169 (Plants)

1.5

Students will sort a group of living things and describe how some living things have similar observable characteristics. (i.e. give rational justification of the sort)/08.02.02

New Plants
Resource: ESS pg. 139 - 153 (Animals)
pg. 154 - 169 (Plants)

1.6

Students will observe and describe that some objects that give off light (e.g., small light bulbs, the sun) also give off heat.

13.03.01

New Plants

1.7

Students will observe and discuss the interactions between plants as producers and animals as consumers./15.02.01

New Plants
Resource: ESS pg. 154 - 169 (Plants)
Resource: ESS pg. 139 - 153 (Animals)

1.6

Students will give some examples of interactions between plants and animals./15.02.02

New Plants
Resource: ESS pg. 154 - 169 (Plants)
Resource: ESS pg. 139 - 153 (Animals)

1.9

Students will observe and describe changes in that take place in nature./12.02.01

New Plants

Resource: ESS pg. 154 - 169 (Plants)
ESS pg. 139 - 153 (Animals)

1st Grade Earth/Environmental Science

1.10

Students will group rock samples according to a single attribute of shape, size, color, texture, or patterns of color or shading, and justify the reasons for their grouping./10.02.01

Pebbles, Sand, and Silt
GEMS: Sifting Through Science
Resource: ESS pg. 69 - 89 (Geology)

1.11

Students will describe the various resources that provide the necessary or extra things that are used by people in their daily lives./16.02.02

Pebbles, Sand, and Silt
Students participate in projects that demonstrate how people use earth materials in their daily lives.

1.12

Students will explain that natural resources are used for many purposes (e.g., trees are used for construction, paper, and fuel)/16.03.01

Pebbles, Sand, and Silt

1.13

Students will sort and describe qualitatively objects in terms of some observable properties (i.e. color, shape, size & texture)./02.02.01

Pebbles, Sand, and Silt
Resource: ESS pg. 69 - 89 (Geology)

1.14

Students will simulate, using hands-on materials, and describe the various ways that fossils form (e.g., cast/mold formation, imprints) with minimal assistance./12.05.02

Dinosaurs: Douglas County kit

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