Colorado Grade 1 science standards
The Grade 1 science outcomes we teach, in the standards's own words, with the lessons and practice pages for each. Pick an outcome code for the full list of lessons and printables.
Colorado Academic Standards for Science (2020). Every lesson comes with a printable teacher guide and student sheet.
Physical Sciences
SC.1.1.1.a Plan and conduct investigations to provide evidence that vibrating materials can make sound and that sound can make materials vibrate.
Lessons: Sound: Can You See a Sound? (Can you see a sound?, Can a string carry your voice?, How do you make a high note or a low note?)
Practice: Sound: Can You See a Sound? workbook · Grade 4 Sound: Vibrations, Pitch and Echoes
SC.1.1.1.c Plan and conduct investigations to determine the effect of placing objects made with different materials in the path of a beam of light.
Lessons: Earth and Sky at Home (Where do rainbows come from?) (partly) · Light and Shadows (Why does my shadow follow me?, What can light go through?)
Practice: Earth and Sky at Home workbook · Light and Shadows workbook · Bouncing Light: Mirrors, Water and Colour workbook · Grade 4 Light and Colour
SC.1.1.1.d Use tools and materials to design and build a device that uses light or sound to solve the problem of communicating over a distance.
Lessons: Sound: Can You See a Sound? (Can a string carry your voice?)
Practice: Sound: Can You See a Sound? workbook
Life Sciences
SC.1.2.2.a Make observations to construct an evidence-based account that young plants and animals are like, but not exactly like, their parents.
Lessons: Like Parent, Like Baby? Traits and Families (Do baby animals look like their parents?, Why don't puppies from the same parents look the same?)
Practice: Like Parent, Like Baby? Traits and Families workbook
Earth and Space Sciences
SC.1.3.1.a Use observations of the sun, moon, and stars to describe patterns that can be predicted.
Lessons: Light and Shadows (Why is my shadow long in the morning?)
Practice: Light and Shadows workbook · Stars and the Night Sky workbook
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