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Unit Plan 25 (Grade 1 Science): Earth’s Pattern Stories

Grade 1 science unit uses storytelling and diagrams to explain sun, moon, and star patterns, connecting daylight changes to seasons using data.

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Unit Plan 24 (Grade 1 Science): Weather, Seasons & Daylight

Grade 1 science unit connects temperature, seasons, and daylight as students use data to identify patterns and predict how daylight changes by time of year.

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Unit Plan 23 (Grade 1 Science): Seasons & Daylight

Grade 1 science unit explores how daylight changes across seasons as students compare data, graph patterns, and predict daylight by time of year.

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Unit Plan 22 (Grade 1 Science): Sun, Moon & Star Patterns

Grade 1 science unit explores daily and nightly sky patterns as students observe the sun, moon, and stars to describe patterns and make predictions.

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Unit Plan 21 (Grade 1 Science): Night Sky Observations

Grade 1 science unit explores moon shapes and star patterns, helping students identify night sky patterns and make simple predictions from observations.

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Unit Plan 20 (Grade 1 Science): Shadows Over the Day

Grade 1 science unit explores shadow length and direction across the day, helping students identify patterns and predict the sun’s position using observations.

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Unit Plan 19 (Grade 1 Science): Daytime Sky Observations

Grade 1 science unit explores daytime sky patterns by observing the sun and shadows, using evidence to describe changes and make simple predictions.

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Unit Plan 18 (Grade 1 Science): Life Science — Quarter Synthesis

Grade 1 science synthesis unit combines structures, parent care patterns, and trait variation, ending with a nature-inspired design challenge using evidence.

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Unit Plan 17 (Grade 1 Science): Variation Within Species

Grade 1 science unit explores variation within the same kind of plants or animals, using observations and simple data to show shared traits and differences.

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Unit Plan 16 (Grade 1 Science): Traits of Young vs. Parents

Grade 1 science unit compares traits of young plants and animals with parents, using observations as evidence to show they are alike but not exactly the same.

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Unit Plan 15 (Grade 1 Science): Human Care & Needs

Grade 1 science unit connects human caregiving to animal care patterns, using texts and media to explain how feeding, safety, warmth, and teaching help offspring survive.

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Unit Plan 14 (Grade 1 Science): Patterns of Care in Nature

Grade 1 science unit compares animal parental care and offspring behaviors to identify survival patterns using texts, media, charts, and evidence-based claims.

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Unit Plan 13 (Grade 1 Science): Offspring Behaviors

Grade 1 life science unit uses texts and media to identify patterns in animal parent and offspring behaviors that help young survive.

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Unit Plan 12 (Grade 1 Science): Mimicking Nature Solutions

Grade 1 engineering unit where students design and test simple tools inspired by plant and animal structures, showing how shape helps tools work.

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Unit Plan 11 (Grade 1 Science): Plant Parts & Survival

Grade 1 science unit explores plant parts and their jobs, then challenges students to design and test solutions that mimic roots, stems, or leaves.

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Unit Plan 10 (Grade 1 Science): Animal Body Parts

Grade 1 science unit explores how animal external body parts help survival, then challenges students to design and test human solutions that mimic those structures.

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Unit Plan 9 (Grade 1 Science): Sound & Light — Quarter Synthesis

Grade 1 science synthesis unit connecting sound and light as students explain vibrations, illumination, shadows, materials, and design tools.

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Unit Plan 8 (Grade 1 Science): Engineering Light or Sound Devices

Grade 1 engineering unit where students design and test light or sound devices to solve communication problems and compare strengths and weaknesses.

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Unit Plan 7 (Grade 1 Science): Materials That Change Light

Grade 1 science unit investigates how transparent, translucent, opaque, and reflective materials affect a beam of light through hands-on investigations.

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Unit Plan 6 (Grade 1 Science): Light Sources & Shadows

Grade 1 science unit explores light sources, illumination, and shadows as students investigate how light direction affects visibility using evidence.

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Unit Plan 5 (Grade 1 Science): Light & Seeing

Grade 1 science unit explores how light allows us to see objects, using flashlights, shadows, and evidence to show objects are visible only when illuminated.

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Unit Plan 4 (Grade 1 Science): Exploring Loud & Soft Sounds

Grade 1 science unit explores loud and soft sounds as students measure, compare, and explain how vibration strength affects sound using fair tests.

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Unit Plan 3 (Grade 1 Science): Sound Makes Things Move

Grade 1 science unit explores how sound causes vibrations and movement as students investigate rice, paper, and objects using evidence and fair tests.

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Unit Plan 2 (Grade 1 Science): Vibrations Make Sound

Grade 1 science unit explores how vibrations make sound and how sound causes vibration through hands-on investigations, tools, and evidence-based demonstrations.

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Unit Plan 1 (Grade 1 Science): Science Routines & Tools

Grade 1 science unit builds lab safety, observation, measurement, and tool use as students gather data and define simple problems for engineering solutions.