Grade 1 Overall Expectations:
Assess the role of humans in maintaining a healthy environment.
- Save the Earth (online resource – National Geographic Kids)
- What Does it Mean to Go Green? (ebook – WPL database)
- Earth Day (ebook – Hoopla)
- Don’t Throw it Away (ebook – WPL database)
- I Am a Living Thing (ebook – WPL database)
- How to Care for the Environment (evideo – YouTube)
- Why and Where are Animals Endangered? (ebook – WPL database)
- Go Green with Sesame Street series (ebook – Hoopla)
- Secrets of Pollution and Conservation (ebook – Hoopla)
- Eco Kids (online resource – Eco Kids)
Investigate needs and characteristics of plants and animals, including humans.
- What Do Living Things Need? (ebook – Hoopla)
- Living Things Need Water (ebook – WPL database)
- How Do Living Things Find Food? (ebook – WPL database)
- Living Things vs Non-Living Things (online resource – Generation Genius)
- Experiment with Living Things (ebook – Hoopla)
- It’s Alive! (evideo – YouTube)
- Plants are Living Things (ebook – WPL database)
- How are Plants Helpful? (ebook – WPL database)
- Types of Plants (evideo – YouTube)
- How Do Seeds Grow? Experiment (online resource- Kids Zone)
- Coloured Carnations Activity (online resource- Kids Zone)
- Animals (online resource – National Geographic Kids)
- What are Animals? (ebook – Hoopla)
- Animals Need Food (online resource – Generation Genius)
- See Like a Cat, Smell Like a Dog (ebook – WPL database)
- Amazing Life Cycles of Mammals (ebook – Hoopla)
- The Life Cycle of a Dog (ebook – Hoopla)
- The Life Cycle of a Frog (ebook – Hoopla)
- The Life Cycle of a Cat (ebook – Hoopla)
- I’m a Bug! Series (ebook – Hoopla)
- Mammals (evideo – YouTube)
- Mammals (evideo – YouTube)
- The Five Senses (online resource – Generation Genius)
- My Senses Help Me (ebook – WPL database)
- The Amazing Human Body (ebook – Hoopla)
- Why Do We Need Air? (ebook – WPL database)
- Let’s Explore the Five Senses (ebook – Hoopla)
Demonstrate an understanding of the basic needs and characteristics of plants and animals, including humans.
- Environments (ebook – Hoopla)
- Plant Power series (ebook – Hoopla)
- Parts of a Flowering Plant (online resource – Teachers Pay Teachers)
- Plant Parts and Functions (evideo – YouTube)
- Big Book of Animals (ebook – Hoopla)
- External Animal Parts (online resource – Generation Genius)
- A Day at the Pond (ebook – WPL database)
- Human Bodies (ebook – Hoopla)
- What is Environment and How to Keep it Clean (evideo – YouTube)
- How Do Animals Change the Environment? (online resource – Generation Genius)
- Living Things Song (evideo – YouTube)
- The Needs of an Animal (evideo – YouTube)