Life Science Bundle

Item description

Make your Life Science lessons more engaging and fun with this bundle in which you’ll find everything you need to teach about animals and plants. It includes a total of 8 different units. This resource addresses the first grade Life Science standards that delve into plants and animals, animal parent and offspring relationships, their adaptations, structures and features that help them survive in their habitats.

Please read the description of the units included in this bundle.

You can use these activities in small group, whole group instruction, independent work or Science centers since it includes different levels of the same activity and multiple activities to choose from.

► 1.10A Investigate how the external characteristics of an animal are related to where it lives, how it moves, and what it eats.

In this resource you will find everything you’ll need to teach your students about animal characteristics (fish, mammals, insects, reptiles, birds and amphibians).

It includes:

➢ 6 PowerPoint presentations with slides explaining characteristics of each group of animals, plus slides with questions to help review the content.

➢ 6 foldable books with 2 levels of difficulty.

➢ 6 colorful posters, highlighting characteristics of each group of animals.

➢ 6 picture sort activities (34 color pictures each activity) to work in small group.

➢ 6 unit tests

➢ Teacher instructions

➢ 6 Google Slides versions

To protect the copyrighted materials, the PowerPoint presentations are “SECURED”, just as a PDF document it CANNOT BE modified

► 1.10B Comparing Parts of Plants

This resource includes several activities that will help you teach your lesson about identifying and comparing parts of plants. The objective is 1.10B Identify and compare the parts of plants.

I’ve divided the objective in 2 parts: Identifying parts of plants and describing its functions and comparing parts of plants.

You will find:

➢Two PowerPoint presentations: Plant Parts and its Functions & Comparing Parts of Plants. Each PowerPoint comes with posters and several sets of activities.

➢ Plant Parts and its Functions Activities:

– Parts of the Plant Activities (4 pages)

– Parts of Plants Posters (2 pages)

– Functions of Parts Activities (2 pages)

– Lima Bean Observation Activity (2 pages)

– Parts and Functions of the Seed Activity (4 pages)

– Parts of the Seed Poster (1 page)

➢ Comparing Parts of Plants Activities:

– Comparing Parts of Plants Posters (5 pages)

– Comparing Parts of Plants – Venn Diagram Activities (20 pages)

– Comparing Parts of Plants – Sentence Frame Activities (20 pages)

– Comparing Parts of Plants – Chart Activities (12 pages)

Your students will compare 2 different kinds of roots, stems, leaves and seeds in each activity set.

– Answer Key for all 3 kinds of activities (17 pages)

– Teacher instructions

– Google Slides version downloadable file

Please have a look at the PREVIEW for a more detailed description.

To protect the copyrighted materials, the PowerPoint presentation is “SECURED”, just as a PDF document it CANNOT be modified️

► 1.10C Animals and their babies

This resource includes several activities that will help you teach your lesson about animals and their young. The objective is 1.10C Compare ways that young animals resemble their parents.

You will find:

➢ A PowerPoint presentation with 12 slides explaining how to compare animals and their offspring using 4 points of comparison: color / design, body structure, food and ways of moving.

➢ 6 comparison activities: 3 with Venn Diagram and 3 with sentence frames. Each activity is provided with 2 levels of difficulty (blank and with words). Color and black and white versions are included too. Blank sentence frame activities include keywords (color, body parts, food and move) as a guide.

➢ Student booklet: Each student will pick an animal (there are 4 animals to choose from – rhino, koala, penguin and elephant) and write sentences about the animal and its baby. I’ve included 2 different levels, one with just a keyword at the top (color, body parts, food and move) and the other one with sentence stems.

➢ Two PowerPoint presentations with information about the animals in the activities and the booklet which will be helpful if your students don’t know enough about those animals.

➢ Teacher instructions

➢ Google Slides version downloadable file

To protect the copyrighted materials, the PowerPoint presentation is “SECURED”, just as a PDF document it CANNOT be modified

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