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Eanes ISD

First Grade Life Science

 

Understandings:

  • The sun is the energy source for all life.
  • Plants have different parts that help them to survive in their environment.
  • Animals depend on their environment.
  • Animals go through life cycles.
TEKS:

Content Standards:

  • 1.9A (S) Sort and classify living and nonliving things based upon whether they have basic needs and produce offspring
  • 1.9B (S) Analyze and record examples of interdependence found in various situations such as terrariums and aquariums or pet and caregiver
  • 1.9C (R) Gather evidence of interdependence among living organisms such as energy transfer through food chains and animals using plants for shelter
  • 1.10A (R) Investigate how the external characteristics of an animal are related to where it lives, how it moves, and what it eats
  • 1.10B (S) identify and compare the parts of plants
  • 1.10C (S) compare ways that young animals resemble their parents
  • 1.10D (R) observe and record life cycles of animals such as chicken, frog, or fish
Process Standards (ongoing):
  • 1.1A identify, discuss, and demonstrate safe and healthy practices as outlined in Texas Education Agency‐approved safety standards during classroom and outdoor investigations, including wearing safety goggles or chemical splash goggles, as appropriate, washing hands, and using materials appropriately
  • 1.1B identify and learn how to use natural resources and materials, including conservation and reuse or recycling of paper, plastic, and metals
  • 1.2A ask questions about organisms, objects, and events observed in the natural world
  • 1.2B plan and conduct simple descriptive investigations
  • 1.2C collect data and make observations using simple tools
  • 1.2D record and organize data using pictures, numbers, and words
  • 1.2E communicate observations and provide reasons for explanations using student‐generated data from simple descriptive investigations
  • 1.3A identify and explain a problem and propose a solution
  • 1.3B make predictions based on observable patterns
  • 1.3C describe what scientists do
  • 1.4A collect, record, and compare information using tools, including computers, hand lenses, primary balances, cups, bowls, magnets, collecting nets, notebooks, and safety goggles or chemical splash goggles, as appropriate; timing devices; non‐standard measuring items; weather instruments such as demonstration thermometers and wind socks; and materials to support observations of habitats of organisms such as aquariums and terrariums
  • 1.4B measure and compare organisms and objects using non‐standard units
Learning Targets:
  • I can classify things as living or nonliving.
  • I can record and describe how animals depend on their habitat to survive.
  • I can record and describe how living things depend on each other.
  • I can describe how living things get energy through food chains.
  • I can describe how body parts help an animal move, eat, and live.
  • I can compare how young animals are like their parents.
  • I can observe and record an animal's life cycle
  • I can identify and name the parts of plants.
Essential Questions:
  • How is the sun's energy transferred to living things?
  • How do animals depend on their environment?
  • How do animals grow?
  • What are the main parts of a plant?
  • How do plant parts compare/differ across different plants?
Misconceptions:
  • Students often do not recognize that trees, vegetables, and grass are all plants.
  • Plants are not alive.
  • Plants take in all substances they need to grow through their roots.
  • Leaves take in water.
  • Plants get their energy from the soil through roots.
  • If it moves, it is living.
  • Nonliving is the same as dead.

Vocabulary:
Previously Introduced:
Interdependence:  animal, living, organism, plant, shelter, sun
Living and Nonliving:  basic seed, living organism, nonliving, offspring
Characteristics of Animals:  animal, appendage, body covering, body shape, characteristic, eats, lives (habitat), movves (legs, wings, fins), survival
Life Cycles:  plant life cycles
Inherited Traits:  animal, parent, resemble, young
New To Grade Level:
Interdependence:  aquarium, caregiver, depend, energy transfer, food chain, habitat, interdependence, terrarium
Living and NonLiving:  reproduce
Characteristics of Animals:  external characteristics
Life Cycles:  animal life cycle, chicken, fish, frog

Assessment:

Plants Learning Check: FOSS Plants & Animals