Animal Adaptations Unit Including the Basic Needs of Plants and Animals – 1st Grade Science

Description

Learning about the basic needs of plants and animals is a big part of the first grade Science Standards for Organisms. This 3-week plant and animal adaptations unit gives students hands-on activities, STEM challenges and literacy connections to help them understand the big idea, “Organisms have tools for survival.”

 

THE FOLLOWING LIFE SCIENCE NEXT GEN STANDARDS ARE ADDRESSED

Organisms: 1-LS1-1, 1-LS1-2, 1-LS3-1, K-2-ETS1-2

 

INCLUDED IN THIS PLANT AND ANIMAL ADAPTATIONS 1ST GRADE SCIENCE UNIT

• 3 weeks of first grade science lessons
• unit outline with the big idea and essential question for each week
• weekly detailed lesson plans
• 14 objective cards plus a blank objective card
• 14 vocabulary cards and definitions to use for matching word and definitions or find your partner games
• 3 writing prompts
• organism vocab word find
• organism vocab crossword puzzle
• Living & Non-Living organisms Sort
• I’m An Organism poem
• 16 Anchor Chart Templates: Organisms Can-Need, Living & Non-Living, Animals Can-Have-Need, Plants Can-Have-Need, Are You My Parent?, Family Traits, Our Eyes, Our Hair, Our Tongues, Our Earlobes, Our Skin, Our Cheeks, Plant Parts Have Jobs, Feet Adaptations, Mimic Animal Adaptations, Invent Me
• Plants and Animals cut and paste venn diagram
• Animal baby and parent matching cards (6 pairs)
• Family traits genetics project (with 4 diversity-sensitive versions): traits tally station posters, and 6 trait graphs (eyes, earlobes, hair, tongue (curl/not curl), dimples, freckles)
• Plant parts jobs flipbook (2 versions)
• Animal adaptations Stations: Paper materials and station labels included (tons of details in the preview)
• STEM Challenge: Copy Cat (Mimicking animal adaptations)
• answer keys available for printables

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TEACHERS LIKE YOU SAID…

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ “Last year was our Science Curriculum review so we needed to find more activities to meet NGSS standards. These lessons and activities are perfect. Teacher directions are clear and easy to use. There are a variety of worksheets, posters, and hands-on activities for students to explore. No more hunting down activities to fill in for missing standards!” ~Rebecca

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ “This was a lifesaver when teaching science! Thank you so much for the well organized and well thought out lessons and activities!” ~Andrea

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ “This is an excellent resource to adapt to the new science standards! The students really enjoy them and they are easy to use!” ~Kristi

 

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Purchase the Next Gen Science Units for First Grade to get 4 science units aligned with the second grade Next Generation Science Units.

 

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→ Animal Classification and Human Body Integrated Unit
→ a Bundle of Year Long Science and Social Studies
→ Kindergarten habitats unit

 

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