This parent guide supports parents in helping their child at home with the 1st Grade Science content.Within the folder you will access Parent Guide PDFs in FIVE Languages: Arabic, English, Hindi, Spanish, and Vietnamese to help on-going communication with caregivers. 

This resource accompanies our Rethink 1st Grade Science Earth Systems, Structures & Processes unit. It includes ideas for use, ways to support exceptional children, ways to extend learning, digital resources and tools, tips for supporting English Language Learners and students with visual and hearing impairments. There are also ideas for offline learning.

This resource accompanies our Rethink 1st Grade Science Unit #2. It includes ideas for use, ways to support exceptional children, ways to extend learning, digital resources and tools, tips for supporting English Language Learners and students with visual and hearing impairments. There are also ideas for offline learning.

In this lesson, students will explore the pattern of day and night by participating in a variety of hands on activities and class discussions. Students will discuss, sort, and sequence day and night activity picture cards, work in groups to create daytime and nighttime posters, sing a song about day and night, and explore the changing position of their shadows outside. All lesson materials are included.

Students will draw pictures of the day and night sky on a paper plate.

In this activity, students will make observations and understand that the sky looks different during the day than it does at night.

In this lesson, students will learn about the moon. Students will learn why they can see the moon sometimes during the day and at night. Students will look at the lunar calendar to see the phases of the moon. Students can also take a virtual tour of the moon.

In this activity, students draw the position and shape of the moon in relation to other constant landmarks from the same location at home for 10 consectuive nights. After the tenth night, students answer questions based on their collected and analyzed data.

This resource provides information about using the classic children's book Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise Brown to illustrate the apparent movement of the moon across the sky at night. Suggestions for other books that are also helpful in teaching this concept are listed.

This resource supports English language development for English language learners. This online book and interactive resource describes and illustrates the Sun's movement across the sky as observed from Earth during the day. Text and audio versions are provided so the book can be used with students individually or with large and small groups.

In this activity, students construct a rotating star finder to find the constellations visible in the night sky throughout the year.

In this activity students will make a moon clock that will allow them to determine where the moon is in the sky at any time of day or night given its phase.

In this lesson, students will review what objects are found in the day and night skies through text, images, discussion, and an interactive song. Students will verbally identify objects in each sky as assessment.

In this activity, children and adults will use Google Sky to observe features of the night sky and share their observations.

This is an activity about sunlight as an energy source. Learners will create a plant box and observe that a plant will grow toward the Sun, its primary source of energy. This hands-on activity is an additional lesson as part of the book, The Day Joshua Jumped Too Much.

In this activity, students will observe and describe what the sky looks like at different times, identify objects in the sky and recognize changes over time, and look for objects that are common to the daytime and nighttime sky.

Students record the position of the sun in the morning and afternoon and make connections to the directions east and west. They practice moving north, south, east, and west and use cardinal directions to read a map.

In this activity, students will use paper, scissors and flashlights to understand why we do not see stars during the day. During the activity, students will create stars on the ceiling. The stars will be lit up by using a flashlight under construction paper with star shapes cut out. The ceiling will act as the sky. A second flashlight, representing our sun, will be shone onto the ceiling where the stars are projected. Just like our daytime sky on a sunny day, the once shining stars will disappear. Students can use tablets with the Night Sky app to check if there are stars in the sky, even when they cannot see them.

In this lesson, students record data as they track the movement of the planet in relation to the sun.