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1st grade science thematic unit plans for Microsoft Word
Water Cycle in a Bag Experiment
Evaporation, Condensation, Precipitation, Accumulation!
Observe the water cycle in your classroom. Using a sandwich bag and colored water watch the water form vapor and then "rain" inside the baggie. Students love this!
This download includes directions and a two page, detailed observation sheet to record the progress four times.
My class said this was their favorite activity of the year. I hang the baggies on the window facing our school courtyard and always get compliments on how appealing
Grades:
1st - 5th
Creative Curriculum Trees Study Visuals
28 Pages of Visuals for the Creative Curriculum "Trees" study. It starts with Large images of trees, parts of trees, things made out of trees, etc.. to print out for around the room. Then the rest of the document is smaller pictures for you to show on a SMARTboard as question of the day or print out.Visuals range from types trees, images to help identify different kinds of trees, parts of a tree, things made out of wood, and then questions of the day about things that come from trees and animal
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PreK - 6th
Primary GATE -- AIR! Active, Creative, Academic, and Hands-on!
I am always trying to figure out what to do with my little primary groups, and this unit was a definite hit with my kindergartners. It would work well with 1st grade too or the regular 2nd grade classroom. The full unit contains more than 2 hours of contact time.
It’s active, fun, and challenging for these little ones and seemed to have the right combination of “get up and move,” imagination, creativity, and “making” along with academic tasks.
We learn about four important properties of air
Grades:
K - 2nd
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Space - Mission To Mars Cooperative Simulation 2-Month Unit - PBL friendly
This is an extended cooperative simulation unit for teams of 3-6 students. They will need to work together to make decisions about their mission to Mars. There are 13 lessons, 12 of which have corresponding Mission Log pages where they will be writing and reflecting on the content of each lesson. This unit comprises science, math, art, engineering, writing, collaboration, reading, and critical thinking. Students will have fun working in teams to put together their mission crew, recruit new astro
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Grades:
1st - 4th
UDL Polar Animal Unit for Kindergarten
This is a Universal for Design Unit Plan based on Polar Animals
The unit lesson plans were designed by me and the template is from teachers college. The unit is filled with various activities for all learning styles
The standards are included
The unit begins with
Arctic/Polar Animal Habitat
Polar Bears
Walrus
Killer Whales
Arctic Seal
Reindeer/Caribou
This unit has six Universal Design for Learning lessons
The unit has six lessons plans to cover Polar Animals that are studied in Kindergarten.
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PreK - 1st
Kindergarten Tree Unit
Our kindergarten curriculum is Foss Science. We have to teach a unit on trees. I made these 7 activity sheets to align with my learning centers. Each sheet also aligns with the goals/expectations of the Foss science tree unit, but they can really go along with any tree unit. Each sheet is hands-on and requires learners to think about how trees grow, their different parts, what they need to grow, and how they change throughout the seasons.
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K - 1st
Human Body Integrated Unit Lesson Plans for 3 weeks
These lesson plans are designed to pair directly with the Human Body Booklet that is for purchase in my TpT shop! There are lesson plans and experiments that are aligned with Florida State Standards and are integrated for math, PE, Health, Science, Writing, and Reading/Language Arts for all 6 of the body parts. The brain, stomach, lungs, and muscles all include experiments AND data sheets for students to record their information. The skeleton and heart do not include experiements but do include
Grades:
1st - 3rd
Earth Materials 1st grade common core
A ready to copy nine page interactive "text book" for your students! Fill in the blanks with the title words, draw and glue in examples for each earth material property. This can be used as a guide to teach common core standards science 1.E.2, 1.E.2.1, 1.E.2.2. Students can experiment and then fill in the pages with things they experience in the classroom. They are learning ways to classify earth materials. Flexibility: show the 3 earth materials in a container, do they conform to the shape of t
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Grades:
1st - 2nd
Sustainability/Recycling Unit - Stage 1 (Years 1 and 2)
A Unit combining HSIE and Science Key Learning Areas.
This unit is designed for a first introductuction and understanding of Sustainability and Recycling.
Learning for Sustainability is about advancing the cause - in the classroom, the campus, the playground, the workplace and in your community.
Our students really enjoyed connecting with their local environment and seeing what they couls do to make a difference.
Key Words: recycling, sustainability, local environment, environment, reduce, reuse
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Grades:
1st - 3rd
Fire Safety Week PE stations
These are the stations that we use during the 1st week in October to teach fire safety. The students love moving around from station to station and learning by "doing." We also use our 9 1 1 and town fire department phone # in stations for them to understand and remember their importance. Some videos we use in the lessons are a nice addition too. The students do this throughout the week for 2 class periods.
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K - 5th
Seed Science Activities & Worksheets
Are teaching summer school? Or do you want to incorporate a unit about seeds into your classroom?
This thematic unit allows students to explore seed and plant growth with simple experiments and record sheets for their observations. They will practice all the skills of a scientist through out this unit. They will experiment, predict, record observations, and practice writing about their thinking and learning.
This packet includes:
1. Free Write: Seeds
2. Seed Hunt record sheet
3. Seed Experiment
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K - 3rd
10 Day K-2 Thematic Weather Unit
This unit has lessons integrated within all areas of the curriculum. This unit touches areas in Language Arts, Math, Social Studies, Science, Health, etc.
This unit included 22 lessons including how clouds are formed, thunderstorm safety posters, rainbow formation, wind, sunshine and much much more.
I have included a resource page with websites and a materials page for what is needed for the unit. This was created for a Kindergarten class but could easily be adapted to first or second grade. I h
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Grades:
K - 2nd
Human Body Student Booklet
Trying to teach the human body and just don't like the curriculum given to you? Well fret no longer! Included in this human body booklet is a unit study that can be substituted for the regular old textbook. The study is on 6 of the human body parts: skeleton, muscles, heart, lungs, stomach, and brain. Each body part has a page for 5 facts, a page that states "I learned about the *body part* by _____" and "The most interesting thing about the *body part* that I learned was ______", and also a bla
Grades:
1st - 5th
Watching for Apples - Integrated Thematic Unit
A cross-curricular thematic unit with 50 plus pages for Language Arts, Math, Science, and Arts/Crafts. Based on an original story about a child watching the seasonal changes of her Grandma Charlotte's apple tree, culminating with the harvesting of the apples! Over 35 lessons with activities, games, realistic-looking money, worksheets, booklets, bulletin board ideas, and class research projects, all reproducible and adaptable to your classroom needs. K-2. Includes the following lessons and MANY
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K - 2nd
States of Matter Lesson Plans and Unit
This states of matter unit includes lesson plans with core content, choral reading, united streaming videos and clips alike. The unit also includes daily show what you know formative assessments and an end of the unit test. There are great websites and included from online sources.
States of Matter Unit is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
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Grades:
1st - 3rd
Black History Week 2-Famous Inventors
This is the second week of plans for the 5 week Black History unit I created that includes higher order thinking questions and activities. It covers Indiana Social Studies standards for Kindergarten but can be modified for use as a bellringer or morning work for any grade level. You will want to download the free week 1 plans that go before it for a greater understanding of the class book that will be made during this unit that covers non-fiction Common Core writing standards for all grade leve
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PreK - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
Weekly Schedule for Elementary Teachers 11x17" (editable)
Like staying organized and seeing your week laid out side-by-side? This weekly schedule makes it easy to plan ahead.
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Grades:
K - 8th
Weather - IB Unit and Lesson Plans
The document includes:
- A four (4) week unit plan on the topic of weather, to include assessments (rubrics)
- 20 detailed lesson plan ideas
- 1 guided reading lesson plan for emerging/beginner readers that can be used as a model for other guided reading lessons tied to this unit
- 1 lesson plan on asking high-quality inquiry questions with related self-assessment tool and all necessary materials to teach this lesson
The unit plan includes the elements in the International Baccalaureate (IB) P
Grades:
1st - 4th
Chicken Life Cycle Journal
For those of you brave enough to hatch chickens have your students keep a life cycle journal of a chicken! I used this with my 4th and 5th grade students with Autism and it was a real hit! I purchased a dozen chicken eggs and each day we observed the eggs (candled when appropriate – discarded eggs without embryo, etc) and drew what we saw and wrote about what we saw and also wrote some predictions about what we thought would happen. To complete the part of drawing what you cannot see, I pulle
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K - 5th
Plant Unit
This unit includes various activities and lessons to explore plant growth and development. Can be edited for your students or population needs.
This unit includes:
1. Description
2. Home/school connection letter
3. Living/Non-living picture sort
4. Plant Observation Journal cover/pages
5. Needs of a plant
6. Parts of a seed
7. Seed Travel Experiment
8. Parts of a plant
9. Plants that we eat
10. Interesting Plants- PowerPoint/videos linked
11. Plant life cycle match
12. Plant Writing
13. Plant
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Grades:
K - 3rd
Animal Research Reports
Animal Research Report: Complete with planning grid for students to begin their reports, a project grid with 9 choices of projects they should do about their animal in addition to their writing, and directions on how to make a layered flipbook for students completed project to be done on.
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K - 2nd
Butterfly Life Cycle Journal
Have your students keep a life cycle journal of a butterfly! I used this with my 4th and 5th grade students with Autism and it was a real hit! I purchased caterpillars and each day we observed the caterpillars and drew what we saw and wrote about what we saw and also wrote some predictions about what we thought would happen. The journal has a cover and a place for the student to write their name as well as a cute butterfly picture. The first page of the journal is where students write inform
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Grades:
K - 5th
K-2 Diverse Family Unit Plan
This unit plan was created by several of the teachers in our school. We wanted a unit that touched on families with in our classroom, community, and the world. We have integrated Arts, Math, Language, Science, Technology, and Physical Education/Health into this unit and have seen great enthusiasm and response from our students. This is a wonderful and diverse unit that we like to use during the fall, but can be used anytime of year!
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Grades:
PreK - 2nd
Me (Human Body, Caring, Communicator) - Transdisciplinary, Themed Unit/Lessons
Imagine being a kid and learning about body parts, uses, ways to communicate, opinions and beliefs, how to be caring toward oneself and others, and mathematical concepts like sorting, classifying, and graphing by making silly faces at one another, playing Simon Says, singing songs, and doing art projects. It is amazing to watch students acquire and demonstrate knowledge when given multiple ways of learning and showing what they know.
At the core, this transdisciplinary, themed unit with 25 les
Grades:
PreK - 3rd
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