Here are resources for your 1st Grade kit – Air and Weather
| Curriculum Overview | Priority Matrix |
Click on the following links below the investigations for a pdf of the word wall words. You can laminate and cut them and use them to help aid in building vocabulary for your students during science.
Word Wall Words
| Investigation 1 -Exploring Air |
Investigation 2 – Observing the Sky |
Investigation 3 – Wind Explorations |
Investigation 4 -Looking for Change |
Printable Vocabulary Cards – (with words, definitions and images)
Target Strategies
| Single Page of All Target Strategies | Individual Strategies for Classroom Use |
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Things you might want to know
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Table of Contents 1 (with Focus Questions) |
Table of Contents 2
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Table of Contents
(with Investigation Titles) |
Investigation 1
I advise teachers to let each pair of student do their own balloon rocket. The lesson plan is to make 2 for the entire class and make the students take turns. (Investigation 1, Part 5) Erika at Charlemagne
My first grade colleagues and I had troubles with the color dot stickers. We found that duct tape worked better.Sometimes the dot stickers don’t stick very well. Duct tape worked well. Leah at Holt
If 1st grade teachers kept all the assembled bags of things; feather, balls, etc, together, this will really help the next teacher not have to reassemble them. Dana Marks at McCornack
Investigation 2
Investigation 3
The bubble solution has already been prepared for you from the warehouse.
The cups provided in the Air and Wind kit to use with Inv 3 Bubbles in the Wind leak and tear when the bubble solution is put in the paper cups. Make sure to use the plastic cups, or the plastic vials work even better too! (Investigation 3) Erika at Charlemagne
Investigation 4
Additional Materials
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