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Science Common Core RL.1.1 resources
Emergency First Grade Sub Plans for the Year BUNDLE | Substitute Plans for 1st
First Grade Emergency Substitute Lesson Plans! This substitute bundle includes 24 DETAILED first grade sub plans. These first grade sub plans are perfect for any emergency sub day or a day packed with engaging themed activities! These plans are no prep - just print and leave for your sub! Students and substitutes will love the activities included in each sub pack! These sub plans include reading, math, writing, social studies and science activities. These plans also include an editable PowerPoin
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K - 2nd
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FAIRY TALE STEM Activity Challenges BUNDLE Family STEM Night and Homeschool STEM
These fairy tale STEM activities bring a classic story alive in a hands-on way, exploring force and motion, sound, measurement, kinetic and potential energy, and more using the engineering design process to creatively problem solve. ⭐ Students will join characters like Goldilocks, Rapunzel, and Jack and the Beanstalk on 12 engineering adventures, with 48 STEM activities included. They will be challenged to use their problem-solving skills to help the characters solve an engineering dilemma! ⭐Stu
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K - 3rd
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NGSS:
K-2-ETS1-2
, K-2-ETS1-3
, K-2-ETS1-1
Diary of a Worm Read Aloud - Reading Activities - Reading Comprehension
This "Diary of a Worm" printable or digital interactive read-aloud lesson plan pack includes rigorous text dependent questions, differentiated graphic organizers, response to text writing activities, a craftivity, and detailed lesson plans. These "Diary of a Worm" activities will help you meet several core standards while maintaining your tradition of reading aloud for pleasure. You will guide students to use evidence from the text to deepen their understanding of the story and respond in meanin
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1st - 2nd
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Also included in: Read Alouds Bundle - Reading Comprehension - A Year of Read Alouds
Rapunzel Fairy Tale STEM Activity ⚙️ Engineering ⚙️ Rapunzel Escapes the Tower
Once upon a time...Rapunzel decided she could rescue herself! Your students will work collaboratively while following the engineering design process in this fairy tale STEM activity. They will help Rapunzel build an escape path so she can get out of her tower and see the world. She can do it herself (with your students' help)!✅ What You'll Get ✅Instructions and sample images8-page story book that guides students through the engineering design process (Ask - Imagine - Plan - Create - Improve). Th
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1st - 3rd
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NGSS:
K-2-ETS1-2
, K-2-ETS1-3
, K-2-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-3
, 3-5-ETS1-1
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Shark Week: A Thematic Unit for 1st Grade
This is a thematic unit for first grade. It includes activities for phonics, reading, writing, social studies, science, math, and STEAM.Included in this unit:-Hungry for digraphs- sort for beginning digraphs ch, sh, th, and wh-R-controlled vowel sharks- differentiated word building activity for r-controlled vowels (ar, er, ir, or, and ur)-Resources for read aloud: If Sharks Disappeared- if/then pocket chart cards, cause and effect graphic organizer, two writing prompts-Resources for read aloud:
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1st
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Crankenstein Read Aloud - Halloween STEM Activities - Reading Comprehension
These Crankenstein read aloud activities are perfect for teaching reading comprehension skills to young learners. These Crankenstein read aloud activities are print and go, FUN, cover tons of standards and include a STEM activity with a fun challenge. Students love Crankenstein's humorous experiences and these fun book companion activities will keep them super engaged.Our interactive read-aloud lesson plan is designed to be taught over multiple lessons. This allows students an opportunity to div
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K - 2nd
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All About Worms | Reading Comprehension, Writing, Science, Spring Activities
Use this week long worm unit to ENGAGE your students as you learn about structures and functions of living things, habitats, behavior of offspring, and much more. This lesson incorporates reading comprehension, writing, and science. This unit is full of hands-on fun and is perfect for spring, Earth Day, or a fun Worm Theme Day for the end of the school year countdown. Included in this unit:Lesson Plans Book Ideas: Diary of a Worm and Wiggling Worms at WorkWorms have/are/need Worm hatsWorm obser
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1st - 3rd
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NGSS:
1-LS3-1
Also included in: Thematic Units for the YEAR | Literacy and Math Activities
Balloons Over Broadway STEM and Thanksgiving Parade Read Aloud Activities
This Thanksgiving Day Parade unit is perfect for the weeks leading up to Thanksgiving Break. It starts off with a lesson, classroom game, and partner activity to learn problem and solution. During the read aloud of Balloons Over Broadway students focus on problem and solution. After the read aloud they complete a problem/solution reading response activity. Next, you will move on to a character traits mini-lesson. Students will determine traits for the main character, Tony Sarg.After students lea
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Grades:
1st - 2nd
Animal Facts Reading Comprehension - Habitats, Classification Science Riddles
Are you teaching about animals? Your students will love building their reading comprehension skills, vocabulary, and collection of science facts with these unique animal fact riddles about habitats, classification, characteristics, and more! You'll love the way this cross-curricular resource reinforces early reading strategies like identifying key details, making inferences, and drawing conclusions!Get riddles for the science topics you love to teach! Click to see this discounted bundle: Scienc
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K - 2nd
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Also included in: Animals Science, Literacy, and Math Cross-Curricular Bundle
Not Quite Narwhal Read Aloud - Reading Activities - Reading Comprehension
This "Not Quite Narwhal" printable or digital interactive read aloud lesson plan pack includes rigorous text dependent questions, differentiated graphic organizers, response to text writing activities including a craftivity, and detailed lesson plans to help you meet several core standards while maintaining your tradition of reading aloud for pleasure. You will guide students to use evidence from the text to deepen their understanding of the story and respond in meaningful ways. These lesson pla
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K - 1st
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How to Catch a Snowman STEM STEAM and Reading Comprehension
Engage your students with this snowman trap STEM STEAM activity, book companion with reading comprehension activities and art. This STEAM unit pairs with the book "How to Catch a Snowman" by Adam Wallace and Andy Elkerton. Help catch the snowman with an engaging STEM trap challenge, create unique snowman art, or teach a fun, winter themed guided reading unit featuring multiple comprehension skills and worksheets as well as writing extensions in multiple genres. This book companion unit for How t
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1st - 3rd
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Rosie Revere Engineer Read Aloud - Growth Mindset - Reading Comprehension
This "Rosie Revere" printable or digital interactive read-aloud lesson plan pack includes rigorous text dependent questions, differentiated graphic organizers, response to text writing activities, a craftivity, and detailed lesson plans. These "Rosie Revere" activities will help you meet several core standards while maintaining your tradition of reading aloud for pleasure. You will guide students to use evidence from the text to deepen their understanding of the story and respond in meaningful w
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1st - 2nd
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Also included in: Read Alouds Bundle - Reading Comprehension - A Year of Read Alouds
Sub Plans - The Pigeon Needs a Bath
Sub Plans: Sub Plans Pack The Pigeon Needs a Bath! A Complete Sub Plan & Thematic Unit for Grades 1-2 CCSSLooking for sub plans that will keep your class actively engaged in learning all day long? How about a fun engaging unit for those days in between testing or before/after a break? Need a cross-curricular unit that uses one picture book for grades 1-2? Welcome to One Book Wonders! One Book Wonders is everything you need for a day (or a couple of days) for your classroom using one boo
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1st - 3rd
6 Thematic Units First Grade Science & Social Studies Lesson Plans BUNDLE
Are you struggling to fit science and social studies in your busy first grade schedule? Look no further! These six science and social studies thematic units for 1st grade are planned in detail and ready to use. Each of the 6 first grade units begins with a content big idea and then integrates into reading and writing with many math and phonics connections as well!What is a first grade integrated thematic unit?An integrated thematic unit combines content and literacy into one common learning the
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1st
Wall-E Movie Guide and THREE DAYS Emergency Sub Lesson Printables K-5 Earth Day
This packet is "REEL FUN" and ready to go for the month of April for Earth Day!Sometimes you have to miss a day and you don't always know ahead of time. Sometimes, things just don't go as planned and you need some emergency lesson plans! This packet is for YOU friend!! EVERYTHING is NO PREP. All you need is the movie Wall-E and you are ready to go! The movie guide included in this set is separated over three days, so there are three total days of lesson plans included to go with those three
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K - 5th
NGSS:
K-2-ETS1-1
, 4-LS1-1
, 1-LS1-2
, 4-ESS1-1
, 3-LS4-1
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1st Grade Full Day Sub Plans - ELA, Math, Science, SS, Art, P.E. + more - Kit 2
ON SALE for $3 this week only! These full-day, cross-curricular sub plans offer everything your substitute will need to have a successful day of teaching and learning in first grade! Our favorite part? All activities and lessons are themed to be based on the book, "The Day the Crayons Quit."Teachers can breathe easy when they need to take a sick day with these no-stress, print and go lesson plans that are perfect to cover every subject with 1st graders! These sub plans are jam-packed to include
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1st
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How to Catch a Turkey Thanksgiving STEM and Reading Comprehension
Engage students with STEM catapult challenge for How to Catch a Turkey. In this thorough Thanksgiving STEM resource students can create unique turkey art, work on fall themed guided reading comprehension skills and extensions, and complete a guided STEM challenge. This book companion unit for How to Catch a Turkey by Adam Wallace and Andy Elkerton is packed full of enriching activities for your students. This unit is perfect for fall in the classroom or an exciting Thanksgiving or Fall themed le
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1st - 3rd
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NGSS:
K-2-ETS1-2
, K-2-ETS1-1
Piggie & Elephant STEAM Activities & STEAM Challenges Makerspace Task Cards
Makerspace Task Cards are perfect If you are a fan of Mo Willems’s Elephant and Piggie books and you love Makerspace, STEM, and STEAM challenge task cards! These STEAM activities make perfect STEM Sub Plans, and you are going to love encouraging your students to work through the Engineering Design Process with these thought-provoking Makerspace Challenges in print and digital versions. Each challenge is based on a Mo Willems book (books not included) and focuses on the problem the character enc
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1st - 2nd
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NGSS:
K-2-ETS1-2
, K-2-ETS1-1
Bats! Non-fiction Unit 1st and 2nd Grade
This Top-selling 90-page Bat unit has a Non-Fiction book that uses photographs to support the detailed information. Loads of interesting facts about bats are discussed in the book. An 18-word Glossary is included for vocabulary work. Fact and Opinion teaching resources and student activities are provided. Question words and forming questions is also a targeted skill with supportive resources and worksheets. The packet comes with MANY additional resources to use with your study of bats. Your st
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1st - 2nd
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Ocean Week: A Thematic Unit for 1st Grade
This is a thematic unit for first grade. It includes activities for phonics, reading, writing, social studies, science, math, and STEAM.Included in this unit:-Hard and soft C coral- sort for the sounds of C with two recording sheet options-Oi and oy oysters- differentiated word building activity for words with the oi/oy diphthongs with a recording sheet-Resources for read aloud: Solving the Puzzle Under the Sea (Robert Burleigh)- main idea graphic organizer, text to self connection graphic organ
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1st
The Ugly Duckling Fairy Tale STEM Activity
How do you make a fairy tale EVEN better? Include a STEM activity as a twist, by adding problem-solving with purpose! In this story, based on The Ugly Duckling, your students will need to construct a convincing camouflage for swan.The StoryYour students will help the ducklings escort swan back to his swan family. To do it, they will need to camouflage themselves to avoid getting eaten by predators. They will need to use basic map skills for this project. You will need STEM building materials suc
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1st - 3rd
Types:
NGSS:
K-2-ETS1-2
, K-2-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-3
, 3-5-ETS1-1
Thematic Units for the YEAR | Literacy and Math Activities
These cross-curricular units take student learning and engagement to a WHOLE NEW LEVEL! It’s amazing what students can learn when they are having fun! All of these units focus on reading skills and strategies while integrating science, social studies and the common core standards. This is hands-on learning at its BEST!!Take a close look at the preview! Click on each cover page to be taken to the individual unit.Fall UnitsApples & Johnny Appleseed: A Juicy ExtravaganzaBats: A Literacy Extrava
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1st - 3rd
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NGSS:
1-LS1-2
, 2-LS4-1
, 2-LS2-1
, 1-LS3-1
End of the Year Camp STEM Challenge Cards Camping Activities & STEAM Activities
Introducing Camping-Themed STEM Activities: Engaging Challenges and Makerspace Task Cards! End your year with camp-themed STEAM challenges that are more than an end-of-the-year craft but are thought-provoking and engaging for the end of the school year. Unlock the adventurous spirit of your students with these captivating Camping-themed STEM Activities! Designed specifically for teachers like you, these 10-pack STEM challenges and Makerspace task cards are the perfect addition to your back-to-sc
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1st - 2nd
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NGSS:
K-2-ETS1-2
, K-2-ETS1-1
Papa, Please Get The Moon For Me by Carle Lesson Plan Moon Phases Activity
Papa, Please Get The Moon For Me Moon Phases & Changes Lesson Plan and Reading Comprehension Skills Activity Pack. Perfect for teaching science to primary grades. BESTSELLER This lesson includes: BenchmarksPre, during, and post reading activitiesStory Elements - Fairy TalesReading Comprehension QuestionsStory SequencingWord SortsMoon Chart ActivityCause & EffectRhyming ActivityThis resource is great for: Teaching elementary science Teaching moon phasesTeaching primary language arts Dista
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Grades:
K - 2nd
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Importance of learning science
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Benefits of learning science
Learning science offers many benefits to students both in school and beyond. In fact, it helps students:
- Question the world around them and seek evidence-based explanations
- Cultivate their ability to observe, experiment, and analyze data
- Nurture a sense of curiosity, awe, and wonder about the natural world
- Understand natural phenomena and the laws that govern the universe
With a solid foundation in science, teachers can help empower students to think critically, solve problems, make informed decisions, and engage with the world around them in meaningful ways.
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