First Grade Standards For:

Pond Life

Life Sciences

Plants and animals meet their needs in different ways. As a basis for understanding this concept:

  1. Students know different plants and animals inhabit different kinds of environments and have external features that help them thrive in different kinds of places.
  2. Students know both plants and animals need water, animals need food, and plants need light.
  3. Students know animals eat plants or other animals for food and may also use plants or even other animals for shelter and nesting.
  4. Students know how to infer what animals eat from the shapes of their teeth (e.g., sharp teeth: eats meat; flat teeth: eats plants).
  5. Students know roots are associated with the intake of water and soil nutrients and green leaves are associated with making food from sunlight.

Insects & Spiders

Life Sciences

Plants and animals meet their needs in different ways. As a basis for understanding this concept:

  1. Students know different plants and animals inhabit different kinds of environments and have external features that help them thrive in different kinds of places.
  2. Students know both plants and animals need water, animals need food, and plants need light.
  3. Students know animals eat plants or other animals for food and may also use plants or even other animals for shelter and nesting.

Oceans

Life Sciences

Plants and animals meet their needs in different ways. As a basis for understanding this concept:

  1. Students know different plants and animals inhabit different kinds of environments and have external features that help them thrive in different kinds of places.
  2. Students know both plants and animals need water, animals need food, and plants need light.
  3. Students know animals eat plants or other animals for food and may also use plants or even other animals for shelter and nesting.

Animal Mania

Life Sciences

Plants and animals meet their needs in different ways. As a basis for understanding this concept:

  1. Students know different plants and animals inhabit different kinds of environments and have external features that help them thrive in different kinds of places.
  2. Students know both plants and animals need water, animals need food, and plants need light.
  3. Students know animals eat plants or other animals for food and may also use plants or even other animals for shelter and nesting.
  4. Students know how to infer what animals eat from the shapes of their teeth (e.g., sharp teeth: eats meat; flat teeth: eats plants).
  5. Students know roots are associated with the intake of water and soil nutrients and green leaves are associated with making food from sunlight.

Weather Watch

Physical Sciences

Materials come in different forms (states), including solids, liquids, and gases. As a basis for understanding this concept:
  1. Students know solids, liquids, and gases have different properties.
  2. Students know the properties of substances can change when the substances are mixed, cooled, or heated.

Earth Sciences

Weather can be observed, measured, and described. As a basis for understanding this concept:
  1. Students know how to use simple tools (e.g., thermometer, wind vane) to measure weather conditions and record changes from day to day and across the seasons.
  2. Students know that the weather changes from day to day but that trends in temperature or of rain (or snow) tend to be predictable during a season.
  3. Students know the sun warms the land, air, and water.