Are you looking for some fun, engaging activities to help bring plants and animals to life in your 1st grade classroom? You’ve come to the right place!
In this blog post, we’ll be exploring a variety of ways that teachers can incorporate both plants and animals into exciting lessons that will make their students enjoy learning!
From learning about plant and animal structures, to studying parents and their offspring, and patterns of behavior, your students will love these 1st grade plant and animal activities!
Read on for some fun plant and animal activities for your first grade classroom.
Learn About Plant and Animal Structures
Your students will learn all about the structures of plants and animals in this unit.
Mini books, posters, and interactive notebook pages make it easy to teach this concept to young students!
You will also teach them about how human ideas can be inspired by nature.
Students will LOVE learning about biomimicry on a first-grade level!
Learn about Parents and Offspring
In the second part of this NGSS unit, students will learn about parents and their offspring.
Students will be able to observe how offspring are alike and different from their parents.
Study Patterns of Behavior
In the final part of this unit, students will learn about behaviors that enable animals to survive.
Some animals live in groups and work together to keep the babies safe.
Other animals keep their babies underground while some build nests up high!
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Grab this 100+ page unit!
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