1st Grade - Content

• 1st Grade - Act. 17: Observing Plants Through a Journal
  During the class' plant unit, students will observe a plant and write and illustrate what they have learned in their discovery journal.
• 1st Grade - Act. 18: Seed Sort
  Students form a variety of categories for seed mixes (wild bird seed or 15 bean soup) and create graphs to display their categories.
• 1st Grade - Act. 22: Retelling the Tiny Seed
  Using the interactive writing procedures, students will write sentences and illustrate ways seeds travel.
• 1st Grade - Act. 23: How Tall are Plants?
  Students will measure a plant using unifix cubes and record their measurements on a class chart.
• All Sorts of Seeds!
  Students will learn about comparing seeds and how they are carried through the environment.
• Do Plants Need Water?
  Lima beans are planted at successively farther distances from a water source so that students can observe the impact of water on seed germination.
• How Big is a Foot?
  This activity introduces nonstandard measurement and provides practice with estimating and measuring lengths.
• Plant Detectives
  Exploration of the school grounds and thought images are used to demonstrate the many uses of plants.
• Seed House
  After reading Eric Carle's story "The Tiny Seed", students will make a seed house and write observations in their discovery journal.
• Sock Walk (Seed Dispersal)
  Students collect seeds from field plants as part of understanding seed dispersal.
• Sprouting Scientists!
  This lesson provides students with the opportunity to observe and describe plants as they grow from seeds.
• Time Capsule
  Students will learn to compare and contrast changes over time.