Grade 1 Units

Explore Grade 1 unit plans in Science, Social Studies, Math, and Language Arts with standards-aligned lessons that build literacy, inquiry, and core skills.

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Grade 1 Science Units

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.

Grade 1 Science Units

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.

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Grade 1 Social Studies Units

Unit Plan 36 (Grade 1 Social Studies): Cumulative Synthesis & Exhibition

Help students review key civics, geography, history, and economics concepts by creating maps, timelines, helper posters, and citizenship displays for a culminating classroom Civic Fair.

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Grade 1 Social Studies Units

Unit Plan 35 (Grade 1 Social Studies): Citizenship in Action

Guide first graders to practice everyday citizenship through kindness, fairness, listening, sharing, problem solving, and simple voting, ending with a “Citizenship in Action” poster.

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Unit Plan 34 (Grade 1 Social Studies): Helping Our World and Each Other

Empower first graders to make a difference through a simple class service project that builds responsibility, respect, inclusion, and informed community action.

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Unit Plan 33 (Grade 1 Social Studies): Our Global Connections

Explore how children around the world meet needs, adapt to their environments, and celebrate traditions, highlighting global similarities, differences, and cultural respect.

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Unit Plan 32 (Grade 1 Social Studies): Natural and Human Resources

Everyday products come from natural resources and the work of skilled people—students learn how materials, workers, and human-made features like roads and buildings help create and move the items they use.

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Unit Plan 31 (Grade 1 Social Studies): Choices and Saving

Help students practice smart decision-making by learning needs vs. wants, limited resources, and simple saving choices through a class token system and kid-friendly activities.

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Unit Plan 30 (Grade 1 Social Studies): Jobs and Money

Help students understand why people work, how money is used for needs and wants, and how saving, spending, and simple trade choices shape everyday decisions.

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Unit Plan 29 (Grade 1 Social Studies): Goods and Services in Our Community

Students learn the difference between goods and services by exploring community workers, matching jobs to what they provide, and acting out roles to see how people help others.

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Unit Plan 28 (Grade 1 Social Studies): Needs and Wants

Help first graders distinguish needs from wants through picture sorts and a class “store,” learning how limited resources require making choices and explaining what they give up.

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Unit Plan 27 (Grade 1 Social Studies): Midyear Review—People and Progress

Help first graders review timelines, past vs. present, important people, holidays, and family traditions through stories, pictures, sorting, and simple role play.

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Grade 1 Social Studies Units

Unit Plan 26 (Grade 1 Social Studies): Tools and Technology Then and Now

Help first graders explore how tools and technology have changed over time, comparing past and present inventions to understand how people work, communicate, and solve problems today.

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Unit Plan 25 (Grade 1 Social Studies): Our Families and Heritage

Help first graders explore family heritage and traditions through stories, photos, and simple family trees while learning how customs are shared across generations.

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Unit Plan 24 (Grade 1 Social Studies): Community Helpers Through History

Community helpers have always kept people safe and supported, and this unit helps students compare their jobs, tools, and vehicles long ago versus today using simple pictures and stories.

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Unit Plan 23 (Grade 1 Social Studies): Change Over Time

Students compare old and new tools and toys using photos and artifacts, practice sorting helpful evidence, and create a simple “Then and Now” page showing how one object changed over time.