Activities for Science in 1st grade

This activity, "Jack's Challenges," guides users through the engineering design process, encouraging them to design, test, and refine their ideas. It presents various design challenges, such as creating a treehouse, a pollution picker-upper, a robot, an explorer's suitcase, or a vehicle for the future. The activity emphasizes research, imagination, planning, collaboration, and continuous improvement of designs based on feedback.

Talk through the step-by-step process to solve these K-2-friendly situations. Get students started with computational thinking with situations relevant to them. These are a good start, but feel free to think of more that are similar but include their favorite shows, video games, activities, and pastimes.

Create your trading cards! Pack them with key info and cool visuals; they're perfect for quick brain breaks or post-assessment fun.

Students are curious kiddos. Teach them how to research with the GAS strategy. G - Goals, what do you want to learn? A - Answers, find the answers. S - Share, share what you learned. Knowing what they are supposed to look for helps them stay focused when searching for the answers. Then they can share what they learned by summarizing it real quick on the last page with a video, voice comment, or voice typing.

Dive into creativity with our shark outline templates!

Engage students in learning about sharks with our label the shark activity. Fun and educational, this activity teaches key shark anatomy concepts.

Once the research is done and they know what the presentation is going to showcase, give students this template to help them make a simple presentation in a flash. They can insert images, text, draw on it, and even add stickers to make it fun! Then they can present with confidence!

Use the Grid Method to create a student-centered, competency-based framework for any subject.

Dive into creativity with our shark outline templates!

Use this template to show off student work and work on proper peer feedback with Sonia's Gallery Walk using the TAG strategy. T - Tell your classmates something you like about their work. A - Ask them a question about it. G - Give a suggestion for how they can improve their work. Students can place a snapshot, screenshot, video, or show their work in the space provided, and then peers can provide multimedia feedback on the side. Use Kami's Split and Merge to create a portfolio collaborative activity or to remove the directions page to assign individually, then merge them all together after the work is done.

Dive into the world of Dinosaurs with these exciting trading cards! Packed with key info and cool visuals, they're perfect for quick brain breaks or post-assessment fun.

Model solar and lunar eclipses with these Moon, Sun, and Earth cutouts.

Dive into learning with our Hammerhead Shark template for students. Perfect for science projects, art class, and more. Educational and easy to use.

Our interactive parts of the body template is designed to help young learners discover the human body in a fun and engaging way.

Our interactive parts of the body template is designed to help young learners discover the human body in a fun and engaging way.

Learn about the world's continents with these exciting trading cards! Packed with key info and cool visuals, they're perfect for quick brain breaks or post-assessment fun.