Science: First Grade2016 - 2017

Science: First Grade

In first grade science, students will learn to classify and describe clouds, discuss changes in weather and weather patterns, and learn how to use instruments to measure these changes and patterns. Students will also explore how light and sound travels and produce variations of sound. Students will discuss ways to reuse, reduce and recycle, and the effects pollution it has on our environment.

Course Information:

Frequency & Duration: Averaging 30 minutes; 5 days per week; two 9 week periods

Asset Modules:

Weather Asset Kit

Light and Sound Waves Asset Kit

Content: Weather / Duration:Weeks 1 thru Week 8 (8 weeks)
Essential Question: / How does weather change from day to day and week to week and what instruments are used to collect that data?
Skill: /
  • Record daily temperatures and draw conclusions about those temperatures in regards to heating and cooling.
  • Collect, describe, and record information about weather using weather instruments.

Assessment: /
  • Given weather temperatures, students will draw conclusions as it relates to heating and cooling.
  • Given weather instruments, students will collect, describe, and record weather information.

Resources: / Asset Weather Kit
Standards: / 3.2.1.B3 Observe and record daily temperatures. Draw conclusions from daily temperature records as related to heating and cooling.
3.3.1.A5 Become familiar with weather instruments. Collect, describe, and record basic information about weather over time.
Vocabulary: / Cirrus- thin type of cloud that forms high in the sky;Cumulus- a type of cloud that is rounded on top and has a flat base; Precipitation- water that falls to the earth as hail, mist, rain, sleet, or snow;Stratus- a large, dark, low cloud indicating rain or snow; Temperature- degree of hotness or coldness that can be measured by a thermometer;Thermometer- an instrument used for measuring temperature;

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Content: Earth Day / Duration:April (1 week)
Essential Question: / How are habitats affected by pollution?
Skill: /
  • To describe how habitats are affected by pollution.
  • To identify where waste from home goes for disposal in the school and community.

Assessment: /
  • Given various pollutants, describe the affect these pollutants have on habitats.
  • Given various examples of waste, identify where waste goes in our school and community.

Resources: / Teacher Created Resources
Standards: / 4.5.1.C Describe how pollution affects the health of a habitat
4.5.1.D Identify where waste from the home, school and community goes for disposal
Vocabulary: / Pollution- contamination of air, soil, water, and the environment that makes it not safe or suitable for use; Recycling- to make something new from something used; Renewable- any natural resource that can replenish itself over time; Waste Stream- movement of trash from generation to final disposal

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Content: Light and Sound Waves / Duration:Week 9 thru Week 18 (8 weeks)
Essential Question: / What makes a shadow and how can we redirect light?
What causes sound and how can we produce loud and soft sounds?
Skill: /
  • To compare and contrast how light travels through different materials and explore how mirrors and prisms can be used redirect a light beam.
  • To recognize that light travels in a straight line until it strikes an object or travels from one material to another.
  • To create and describe variations of sound.

Assessment: /
  • Using mirrors and prisms, students will redirect a light beam
  • Given materials, students will compare and contrast how light travels
  • Given two materials, students will recognize that light travels in a straight line until it strikes an object
  • Given the variations of sound, students will create and describe them.

Resources: / Asset Light and Sound Waves Kit
Standards: / 3.2.1.B5 Compare and contrast how light travels through different materials. Explore how mirrors and prisms can be used to redirect a light beam.
3.2.3.B5 Recognize that light travels in a straight line until it strikes an object or travels from one material to another.
3.2.PK.B5 Create and describe variations of sound.
Vocabulary: / Frequency- how fast the waves vibrate or goes up and down;Pattern- repeated design or recurring sequence; Velocity- rate of change in an objects motion it has both a speed and a direction; Voltage- difference in charge between two points;Wavelength- distance from one wave of energy to another as it is traveling from one point to another

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