Students create an engineering project using Keva Planks based on the Folk Tale, Three Billy Goat Gruff. They have the following limitations. Only blocksSpan of river wider than the planks (span is 8 inches)Not weight bearingCan’t build on top of banks (the end of the river base/supports)15 minutes to build

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 sort rocks. Students will sort based on hardness, texture, layering, and particle size. Students will also play a rock Bingo game.

This lesson is designed for students to develop investigational skills using observation and touch. The students will determine the characteristics they wish to use to categorize the rock samples. Because the students are working in small groups they will need to cooperate to decide on the criteria for sorting. Vocabulary words to be used include color, shape, texture, size, group and belong.

In this lesson, students observe different types of rocks to learn about the physical properties of earth materials. A student worksheet with photographs of a road, a rocky shoreline, and a mountain is included with the lesson to help students imagine where the rocks originated. As an extension, students can use a downloadable Venn diagram to compare and contrast the properties of their rock samples.

In this lesson, students will observe and describe something they are familiar with (cookie snacks) to help them observe and describe the physical characteristics of something unfamiliar (rocks). This is also an excellent activity to introduce geological terminology used in describing rocks.

In this multi-age lesson, students will work with an upper elementary partner to collect and observe soil samples from the school grounds. They will divide a paper plate into four sections and label them animals, pllants, rocks and other and dissect their soil, placing what they find on the labeled paper plate sections. At the end of the lesson, students discuss as a group what they found in the soil.

With this resource, students will sort materials based on density and particle size.

This informational text discusses the unique property of ice - that it floats in liquid water. Students focus on real-world examples and how ice is necessary for life in the polar regions. The text is written at a kindergarten through grade one reading level. This is a PDF containing the informational text and a glossary.

Students sift soil to remove organic materials and pebbles and then re-sift the soil to separate clay and sand.

Students will ask questions and make observations about soil to learn about properties of different types of soil and soil horizons. Students collect soil samples, use their senses to observe the samples, and mix them with water to observe how the soils settle. Three reproducible student recording sheets are included with this lesson.

In this lesson, students will have an opportunity to learn about sunflowers and plant sunflower seeds, a native plant of the North American prairie.

In this lesson, students will observe and chart similarities and differences in samples of rocks and soil.

In this lesson, students investigate different types of local soil and rock samples collected form the school grounds. Printable student task cards and recording/observation sheets are included with the lesson. Formtaive assessment ideas are also provided.

In this activity, students will go outside and collect nonliving earth materials, and then work in collaborative groups to sort the materials into categories of their choosing. They will describe the materials in their journal using drawings and words.

In this two day lesson, students collect three samples of soil from different locations on the school grounds. Students will observe the soil samples and compare them with other samples the teacher makes available. The class creates a data recording system for their observations and a class chart of their findings.

In this lesson, students will investigate living and nonliving things in the Australian desert. Students will collaborate in groups to create slideshow presentations to highlight the characteristics of living and nonliving things and to show how living things depend on nonliving things in the Australian desert.

In this lesson, students will think about the uses of rocks in the world around them. Students will look and write about what they find in the "Mystery Rock Boxes". Students will learn about salt, sand, granite, limestone, and pumice.