NB 27 1st Grade Plants and Animals Unit

1st Grade Weather Unit
Home \| Plants and Animals Home \| Lesson 1 \| Lesson 2 \| Lesson 3 \| Lesson 4 \| Lesson 5 \| Lesson 6 \| Lesson 7 \| Lesson 8 \| Lesson 9 \| Lesson 10 \| Lesson 11 \| Lesson 12 \| Lesson 13 \| Lesson 14 \| Lesson 15 \| Lesson 16 \| Post Unit Assessment
Unit Overview The Unit Overview contains a summary description of the unit and individual lessons. It features essential/unit questions that align with the unit benchmarks.	Unit Blueprint The Unit Blueprint is a comprehensive table that aligns individual lessons, essential/unit questions, benchmarks, and assessments. This interactive tool contains links to teacher-generated sheets, student work samples, helpful teacher tips, and video clips (if applicable). Unit Calendar Lesson 1: Sharing What We Know About Organisms Lesson 2: Sharing and Describing Seeds Lesson 3: Planing Our Seeds Lesson 4: Observing Woodland Plants Lesson 5: Observing Freshwater Plants Lesson 6: How Have Our Seeds Changed? Lesson 7: Observing Freshwater Snails Lesson 8: Observing Guppies Lesson 9: Observing Pill Bugs Lesson 10: Observing Millipedes Lesson 11: What's Happening in the Aquarium Lesson 12: What's Happening in the Terrarium Lesson 13: Freshwater and Woodland Plants Lesson 14: Freshwater and Woodland Animals Lesson 15: How Are Our Plants and Animals Alike and Different? Lesson 16: Taking a Look at Ourselves Post Unit Assessment View Slide Shows for Lessons 4-5 and Lessons 7-10. Setting Up the Aquariums and Terrariums (Microsoft^® PowerPoint^®) Introducing Freshwater and Woodland Animals (Microsoft PowerPoint) Download an Adobe^® Acrobat^® (PDF) version of the entire blueprint.
Unit Benchmarks The Unit Benchmarks provides a list of benchmarks (learning goals) for the unit. Project 2061 by the American Association for the Advancement of Sciences was used for selecting enduring, developmentally appropriate benchmarks. The benchmarks are organized by chapters from Benchmarks for Science Literacy.
Research on Student Misconceptions Research on Student Misconceptions contains research about common student misconceptions related to the unit of study. Research from the Research Base (Chapter 15) of Benchmarks for Science Literacy is primarily used. Additional research is used to supplement areas not addressed by Project 2061.
Resources The Resources web page provides an annotated bibliography of web sites, videos, and books related to the unit of study. It contains hotlinks to relevant sites.

1st Grade Weather Unit