This informational text introduces students to photosynthesis and lichens-plant-like organisms resulting from a symbiotic relationship between an alga and a fungus. The text is written at a kindergarten through grade one reading level. This version is a full-color PDF that can be printed, cut and folded to form a book. Each book contains color photographs and illustrations.

In this lesson, students learn about animal habitats. Students will play a "Concentration" type card game, matching animals with their "place to be."

In this lesson, students will learn about animal adaptation, hibernation, and migration. Students will do an experiment that shows how adaptation works and will make their own book about apple trees.

These supplemental student handouts are meant to be used with the unit "Plants and Animal Needs." In this series of activities, students will make observations that will help them describe patterns of what plants and animals need to survive.

This supplemental material is meant to be used with the unit "Plant and Animal Needs." In this presentation, students will learn how to make observations that will help students describe patterns of what plants and animals need to survive. A number of labs and activities will provide students with instructions for exploring the needs, habitats, activities, and adaptations of plants and animals.

This unit was created by the Rethink Education Content Development Team. This course is aligned to the NC Standards for 1st Grade Science.

In this virtual resource, students will think about the needs of plants and animals in their environments through a reading of "The Salamander Room." They will explore and compare different NC environments through 360 videos, and investigate the environment right outside their home or school.

The wakelet site features videos demonstrating hands-on activities for students to complete at school in small, socially-distanced settings. Activities may also be adapted for at-home learning. Most field trips incorporate an outdoor component, acknowledging the need to balance screen time with green time to support mental health. Tips for taking your students outside can be found here: https://education.eol.org/cnc_materials/TipsForTeachingOutside.pdf

Through this website students can learn about seeds and how they grow by conducting their own plant investigation and sharing their thoughts with other kids.

In this lesson, students explore what an imaginary animal needs to survive, and they decide if it could live on their playground. Then the students look at the needs of real animals that may live in their schoolyard.

This resource consists of a series of expositive and interactive modules that instruct students on the properties of soil and explain why soil is and important resource. Follow the "Digging Shallow" link for modules that are appropriate for an early elementary audience.

In this lesson, students make observations and record information in the schoolyard setting to describe leaf patterns in the natural world. Students will also make inferences about how the sun and shade contribute to differences in leaf color and texture.

In this activity, students explore and investigate 4 different areas around campus (mud puddle, rocky parking lot, grass field, tree base) to determine other living things in those areas and what they might need from those areas.

In this lesson, students will investigate and try to discover for themselves whether or not all plants need water. They will be responsible for coming up with a hypothesis and thinking about how to investigate and answer this question. Students should have a basic understanding of the scientific process and how to test a hypothesis.