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The resources above are to be used as supplemental resources to the MNPS Science Kits. This list is not

extensive and should be used to meet the needs of the students.

1st grade Science Kits: Resources for Implementation and Enrichment

Unit: Measuring and Comparing

Books to explore

Web Resources Idea Sparkler(s)

Is a Blue Whale the Biggest Thing There Is? By Robert E. Wells (Comparison: big, bigger, biggest) Twelve Snails to One Lizard: A Tale of Mischief and Measurement, Hightow Me and the Measure of Things, Sweeney Tia Tape Measure, Klein Inchworm and a Half, Pinczes

http://urbanext.illinois.edu/firstgarden/fundamentals/ruler.cfm

Students compare their fingers and feet to numbers on the ruler & use this for measuring in the garden

http://pbskids.org/games/measurement/

There are many games to help learn measurement

http://www.scholastic.com/browse/article.jsp?id=3758185

Lesson for measuring with nonstandard units of measure

http://www.limitlesslibraries.org/

Book Flix pairs Inch by Inch (Example Text from the Curriculum Guide) with How Long Is it?

Lesson plan for K-2 on measurement using standard and nonstandard forms incorporating picture book characters: http://informationliteracy.org/plans/view/428/back/0 Use other nonstandard units of measure (hand or foot, cubes) to measure objects in the classroom. Students can record measurements in a journal. Create a classroom graph: The average length of students feet.



Unit: Organisms

Books to explore


Heinemann Read and Learn series (2014) on Living and Nonliving in different habitats: ocean, polar region, deserts, grasslands, mountains, and rainforests Plant Part Smarts: Science Adventures with Charlie the Origami Bee by Eric Braun (2013) Up in the Garden and Down in the Dirt by Kate Messner

www.pebblego.com http://www.library.nashville.org The Nashville Public Library has too many books to list that deal with animals, plants, and living and nonliving things. Please search the catalog to best meet the needs of your students! http://www.limitlesslibraries.org/ Book Flix: The Animals and Nature section has many pairing of fiction and nonfiction that would be appropriate for this unit such as:

Bugs, Bugs, Bugs & A Ladybug Grows Up

Bear Snores On & A Bear Cub Grows Up

Planting a Rainbow & It Could Still be a Flower

Joey Runs Away & A Kangaroo Joey Grows up

http://www.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/tdc02.sci.life.colt.lp_living/living-vs-nonliving/ Students explore the characteristics that distinguish living from nonliving things; Has links to several multimedia resources

GLE.0107.5.2 Recognize that some organisms which formerly lived are no longer found on earth

Students could complete a research project on dinosaurs with a final project of a model dinosaur in its habitat

Create a flip book on living and nonliving things, plant parts, or an animal. Flip Book Creator: http://bit.ly/1aSQMrg



Unit: Solids and Liquids

Books to explore


http://www.library.nashville.org please search the catalog for numerous nonfiction resources Splat! Wile E. Coyote Experiments with States of Matter by Slade Matter Close-Up series by Peppas ; Crabtree Publishing (2013)

www.brainpop.com magnets www.pebblego.com physical science https://jr.brainpop.com/science/forces/sinkorfloat/draganddrop/ http://m.sesamestreet.org/topics/stem/sink-or-float#undefined Videos, games, and activities on the science topic will it sink or float- Sesame Street http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/scienceclips/ages/5_6/pushes_pulls.shtml Game for push/pull https://www.teachingchannel.org/videos/first-grade-science-lesson An exploration of force (video) http://www.preschoolexpress.com/discovery_station07/magnet_experiments_jan07.shtml Magnet experiments

Have students create Marble Mazes to reinforce the concepts of speed More info: http://www.adayinfirstgrade.com/2014/03/fun-with-force-and-motion.html Complete a magnet sort (magnetic and nonmagnetic) and create a mobile. Example: http://binged.it/1bQwLtQ



Unit: Weather

Books to explore


What the Sun Sees, What the Moon Sees, Tafuri Faces of the Moon, Crelin The Magic School Bus Kicks Up a Storm If Frogs Made the Weather, Bauer Groundhog Weather School, Holub Oh Say Can You Say: Whats the Weather Today? Cat in the Hat learning library Little Cloud and Lady Wind, Morrison And if the Moon Could Talk, Banks Little Cloud, Carle Thunder Rose, Nolen Thunder Bunny, Berger Thunder-Boomer!, Crum How the Cat Swallowed Thunder, Lloyd

http://weatherwizkids.com/ http://teacher.scholastic.com/lessonrepro/k_2theme/weather.htm http://www.limitlesslibraries.org/ Book Flix Earth and Sky resources:

Come on Rain, Hesse & Rainy Weather Days, Rosenberg

Happy Birthday Moon, Asch & The Moon, Chrismer

Stars, Stars, Stars & Looking through a Telescope

Safari Montage videos Resources for Night Sky: http://hubblesite.org/explore_astronomy/tonights_sky/ http://www.kidsastronomy.com/astroskymap/ www.pebblego.com

Use double bubble thinking map to compare different weather events (Floods and Droughts), or day and night sky Sample Lesson Plan: http://informationliteracy.org/plans/view/419/back/0 Create a class circle map on weather. Create a class weather poem using the words from the map. Students write their weather predictions for the next 3 days using vocabulary from the unit. (Teacher created sentence starters) Have students write and share a weather forecast with the class.

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