First Grade Weather Lesson Plans & Science Unit Activities on Cause & Effect

Description

These first grade weather lesson plans and unit activities help kids explore and understand cause and effect through Earth’s natural cycles. Find detailed plans, materials, STEM challenges, science labs, literacy and math connections and much more in this complete 6 week weather unit.

 

Are you struggling to fit science in your busy first grade schedule? Look no further! This first grade weather unit integrates literacy and science to make your literacy block more impactful and help you use your precious instructional time wisely.

 

Beef up your first grade literacy block by integrating science to help students understand the big idea, “Earth’s cycles cause change in the natural world.”

 

What is a first grade integrated thematic unit?

An integrated thematic unit combines content and literacy into one common learning theme so that both sets of standards can be covered during the same block of lessons.  The units last 5 to 7 weeks and focus mostly on social studies or science and literacy.  They do connect to math when it is appropriate, too!

 

Why should I use thematic units in my first grade classroom?

Let’s be honest! We don’t have a ton of time for science or social studies in first grade. So when we teach it, we need to be able to get a good bang for our buck. Integrated thematic units save instructional time AND make learning more meaningful for your first graders!

 

There’s no need to spend your time putting together a cohesive unit and writing lesson plans for your content and literacy.  I’ve already done that time consuming work for you!  By purchasing this unit, you will have a completely integrated plan for this thematic unit and all the tools you need to teach for 6 weeks!

 

Literacy topics taught in this first grade weather unit

• cause and effect
• narrative writing
• informative writing
• how to writing
• verb tenses
• story sequencing

 

Science topics taught in this first grade weather unit

• severe weather
• water cycle
• seasons
• moon phases
• stars and constellations
• day and night cycles
• sun and shadows
• wind effects
• rainbows
• weather types
• lightning and static electricity

 

First Grade Weather Lesson Plans Include…

• 18 pages of daily lesson plans already DONE for you! 🙂
• 6 weeks of visual weekly plans for science, reading, writing and math
• 50 “I Can” Common Core objective cards
• 44 vocabulary cards and a blank page for customizing
• Unit display poster with the unit big idea
• 31 anchor chart templates in color and BW
• 14 writing prompts
• 6 science experiments on shadows, making clouds, water cycle, tornadoes, rainbows, and static electricity
• Monthly weather log and a blank template
• Weather decisions chart with temperature recording pages
• Weather booklet
• The Wind Blew sequencing activity
• Verb tenses sort
• My Little Cloud creative writing activity
• How To Writing graphic organizer
• Severe weather mythbusters sort
• Cause and effect cut and paste printable
• When it Rains I can/see/feel anchor chart and blackline printable
• The Water Cycle full color diagram and blackline fill in the blank printable
• Synonym activities: synonym roll anchor charts for fun, bad, said and good. Plus coordinating seasons stories that overuse those words to practice replacing with synonyms
• Math cycle connections: interactive slides on base 10 and time with guiding questions
• Give a Mouse a Cookie sequencing activity
• 7 Seasons science and literacy activities
• 7 Sun Moon Stars space activities

 

CLICK TO SEE A DETAILED PREVIEW OF WHAT’S INCLUDED IN THIS RESOURCE!

 

TEACHERS LIKE YOU SAID…

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ “Love how you incorporated reading, science (weather), and cause and effect into this unit!!!” ~Kim

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ “Best weather unit on this site!” ~Debbie

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ “So helpful! Really made my life much easier, thank you!” ~Sanam

 

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Purchase the Year of 1st Grade Thematic Units to get these first grade weather lesson plans plus 5 more integrated units for science and social studies.

 

You may also like…

→ Year Long Pacing Guide for 1st Grade
→ Severe Weather Mini-Unit
→ Wizard of Oz Companion Packet

 

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