INTEGRATED SCIENCE CURRICULUM GUIDE GRADE 1
Objectives	Core Curr. Content Standards	Instructional Activities	Assessment (Cross-curricular) (Multi-cultural)	Resources	GEPA HSPA Terra Nova
UNIT 1 – LIFE SCIENCE Chapter 1 The student will be able to: ¨ Identify the characteristics and needs of living things.	5.1 5.6 5.7 5.12	1. Divide the class into groups of 4 or 5. The groups will create a pen for a giraffe. 2. Manipulate rocks to comprehend non-living. Make a pet rock, create a rock homework wristband. 3. Play animal charades to reinforce animal movements. 4. Create and manipulate animal puzzles that match parent to baby. 5. Manipulate celery to show how plants receive food and water. 6. Create a bird feeder and a shelter for earthworms.	Teacher observation Class discussion Chapter 1 review questions or test or finished project Special Education: - Per student’s ability.	Text: Science Horizons, Silver, Burdett & Ginn, 1991 1. T.G. p. 25 2. Appendix 1 3. Appendix 2 4. Appendix 3 5. Appendix 4 6. Appendix 5
Chapter 2 ¨ Understand that animals have different body parts. These parts explain the differences in habitat, movement and food.	5.1 5.6 5.7 5.12	1. Imitate animal movements or play leap frog. 2. Conduct earthworm races. 3. Play the animal guessing game. 4. To reinforce different habitats, create the animals in their environment.	Teacher observation Class discussion Chapter 2 review questions	2. Appendix 6 3. T.G. p. 68 4. Appendix 7
UNIT 1 – LIFE SCIENCE Chapter 2 The student will be able to: ¨ Acknowledge the importance of animals to the human race.	5.6 5.12	1. Make butter to show the importance of animals to the human race. 2. Have a guest come and speak of the ways animals should be treated. Special Education: - Peer tutoring, velcro boards, sequence chart, video tape of animals. 3. Have a speaker come and discuss seeing eye dogs as partners for the handicapped. Special Education: - Video tape.		Text: Science Horizons, Silver, Burdett & Ginn, 1991 1. T.G. p. 76 2. Call a local vet, animal shelter or groomers. 3. Call the Commission for the Blind.
Chapter 3 ¨ Classify plants by their parts, tell how these parts determine where they live and human uses of these plants.	5.4 5.6 5.7 5.8 5.12	1. To grow the alphabet. 2. Make a seed book to relate the seeds to the plants or flowers. 3. To observe germination, plant beans. 4. To observe the sequence of bean growth (model/chart). 5. To grow without seeds. 6. To make thread from cotton. Special Education: - Co-op learning, computer arts.	Teacher observation Class discussion Finished project Chapter 3 review questions or test	1. T.G. p. 81 2. Appendix 8 3. Appendix 9 4. Appendix 10 5. Appendix 10a 6. T.G. p. 100
UNIT 1I – PHYSICAL SCIENCE Chapter 4 The student will be able to: ¨ Group objects, identify properties and classify according to those properties.	5.4 5.8	1. To reinforce measurement by making bubbles. 2. To create a texture board. 3. To explore items through the senses. a) Play the smell game. b) To make and manipulate "goop." c) To determine an object by how it feels. d) To distinguish between objects by the sense of taste. e) To manipulate cups and string to transmit sound. f) To discover that your hands and feet are units of measure. Special Education: - Co-op learning, computer arts.	Teacher observation Class discussion Chapter 4 review questions or test	Text: Science Horizons, Silver, Burdett & Ginn, 1991 1. Appendix 11 2. T.G. p. 115a 3. a) Appendix 12 b) Appendix 13 c) Appendix 14 d) Appendix 15 e) Appendix 16 f) T.G. p. 120
¨ Predict and test the weight of an object.	5.4 5.5	1. Bring a scale in and weigh each student. Mark it on a chart. Compare and contrast. 2. To create a balance for individual weighing. 3. To manipulate the balance scale. 4. To predict and measure volume using marbles as nonstandard units		1. Materials needed: scale, marker, chart paper 2. Appendix 17 3. Appendix 18 4. Appendix 17
UNIT I1 – PHYSICAL SCIENCE Chapter 5 The student will be able to: ¨ Understand that moving things change places.	5.9	1. Create airplanes and race them. 2. To create marble pictures.	Teacher observation Class discussion	Text: Science Horizons, Silver, Burdett & Ginn, 1991 1. Appendix 18 2. Appendix 19
¨ Recognize different forces.	5.5 5.9	1. To examine properties of gravity. 2. To manipulate magnets. a) Attraction b) Attraction of iron and steel c) Different strengths d) Attraction of other magnets – play "go fish." Special Education: - Co-op learning, use computer models, tape recorder, velcro charts, sequence board.	Teacher observation Class discussion	1. Appendix 20 2. a) Appendix 21a, 21b b) Appendix 22a, 22b c) Appendix 23a, 23b d) Appendix 24
¨ Identify 3 types of machines and explain how people use them.	5.4	1. To imitate a wheel. 2. To create a toy with wheels. 3. To explore a ramp. 4. To create a lever. 5. To experiment lifting objects with the lever made or a larger lever. 6. Research inventors and their inventions. Special Education: - Trip to library, video of inventors, tape & video reports, teach report format, break report down into interim sections with separate due dates.	Teacher observation Finished Project Chapter 5 review questions or test	1. Appendix 25 2. Appendix 26 3. T.G. p. 143 4. Appendix 27 5. Appendix 28 6. T.G. p. 145 (ext.)
UNIT 1I – PHYSICAL SCIENCE Chapter 6 The student will be able to: ¨ Recognize that the sun, moon and star patterns change throughout the month.	5.11	1. The students will recognize that there are more hours of sunlight during the summer. 2. To demonstrate the phases of the moon. 3. To examine the surface of the moon. 4. To create a star box. 5. To read about and create constellations.	Teacher observation Class discussion Finished project Chapter 6 review questions or test	Text: Science Horizons, Silver, Burdett & Ginn, 1991
¨ Identify the 2 parts of a day and the ways to tell the time of day.	5.11	1. To demonstrate the differences between night and day. 2. To observe the movement and positions of the sun. 3. To chart the movement of the sun.		1. Appendix 34 2. Appendix 35 3. Appendix 36
UNIT III – EARTH SCIENCE Chapter 7 ¨ Identify the features and colors of the earth.	5.10	1. To determine if land or water covers more of the earth. 2. To create a land and water model of the earth.	Teacher observation Class discussion	1. T.G. p. 197 2. Appendix 37
UNIT 1II – EARTH SCIENCE Chapter 7 The student will be able to: ¨ Determine that rocks and soil are made of different colors and textures.	5.10	1. Observe and classify various rocks. 2. To create "Rocky Tales" creative writing. 3. To select a rock and make it into a pet. Special Education: - Computer/scribe/tape, co-op learning.	Teacher observation Class discussion Chapter 7 review questions or test	Text: Science Horizons, Silver, Burdett & Ginn, 1991 1. Appendix 38 or 39 2. Appendix 40 3. Appendix 41
¨ Comprehend that there are various bodies of water and that they affect the earth.	5.10	1. To create an ocean. 2. To create a water and land model of the earth. 3. To reenact how water travels from rain into streams, down to lakes and rivers, and to the oceans.		1. Appendix 42 2. Appendix 37 3. Appendix 38
UNIT III – EARTH SCIENCE Chapter 8 ¨ Identify the different elements of weather.	5.10	1. To observe weather conditions on a daily basis. a) Create a weather wheel. b) Create a weather chart. 2. To measure rainfall. a) Create a rain gauge. 3. Make rain. 4. Make clouds. 5. Make lightning.	Teacher observation Class discussion Finished project Chapter 8 review questions or test	Text: Science Horizons, Silver, Burdett & Ginn, 1991 1. a) Appendix 42 b) Appendix 43 or 42 2. Appendix 44 3. Appendix 44b 4. Appendix 45 5. Appendix 47
¨ Recognize that the weather affects humans.	5.10	1. To recognize proper seasonal clothing. Special Education: - Identify hot/cold, beach sand/snow.		1. Appendix 47
UNIT 1V – THE HUMAN BODY Chapter 9 The student will be able to: ¨ Recognize human beings and other living things have needs and needs change as you grow.	5.6	1. Discuss the needs of infants and toddlers 2. To help recognize the difference in themselves. a) Create "like" sheets. b) Create "me" books. c) Create eye color charts. d) To compare fingerprints 3. Past and present bulletin board. Special Education - Model sheets, co-op learning.	Give students the top sheet to do at home with their parents Teacher observation Finished project or Chapter 9 review questions or test	Text: Science Horizons, Silver, Burdett & Ginn, 1991 1. Invite a parent of a young child to come and speak or share a video of their child. 2. a) Appendix 48 b) T.G. p. 258, 266 c) T.G. p. 261 d) Appendix 49 3. Appendix 50
Chapter 10 ¨ Name the ways of keeping healthy.	5.6	1. Paper plate meals. 2. Preventing germs. a) Washing hands. b) Covering a cough. c) Clean teeth. d) Healthy eyes	Teacher observation Class discussion	1. T.G. p. 272 2. a) Appendix 50 b) Appendix 51 c) Appendix 52 d) Ask a doctor or dentist to make a guest appearance. Special Education: - Video guest, tape questions.

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