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A great video that explains, using simple 1st grade relatable examples, how living things grow, eat, and reproduce, while non-living things do not.

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Learn the characteristics of living and non-living things! For example, living things need nutrients (food & water), they grow and reproduce. Watch now!

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An interactive sorting activity where students will be asked to classify items as living or non-living.

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In this activity, students sort samples into living or non-living things. What makes something a living thing? To be called a living thing, an item must have once eaten, breathed and reproduced. A dead animal or plant is considered a living thing even though it is not alive. Our coastal temperate rainforest is full of […]

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An activity where students go on a nature walk and classify objects as living or nonliving.

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Instructions

1Draw a line down the middle of a page on the clipboard.

2Label one column living and the other column non-living.

3Walk around a garden, backyard or park and make observations with your senses.

4Find objects that are living or non-living.

5Draw and label the objects under the correct column on your paper.

6Be able to give a reason for your classification.

How It Works

Living things have three primary traits. They grow; need food and water which means they take in nutrients; and reproduce which means they make more things like themselves. Kittens, fish, birds, trees, insects, grass and even people are examples of living things. Anything that does not need nutrients, does not grow or does not reproduce is non-living. Some examples of non-living things are robots, hats, food, and tables.

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An Interactive game where students choose appropriate clothing for animals for each season based on temperature and weather clues. Super Fun! Note: Not always accurate.

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Dress for the Season | Everyday Learning | PBS LearningMedia

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In this interactive game, children are prompted to help the animals get dressed for each season. The earth changes with each season, and children can enjoy and learn from these changes. Observing the ways in which these changes take place can be a wonderful tool to introduce concepts such as evaluation and very basic problem solving.

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A simple,1st grade interactive explaining how weather changes in different seasons and how living things adapt.

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A fun game-like activity where kids paint and build animated scenes for spring, summer, autumn, and winter including animals, seasonal activities, and weather elements like rain or snow.

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Our Seasons section is for your child or student's creative side, with painting and creative activities. Kids will learn about the four seasons: Spring, Summer, Fall (Autumn) and Winter by painting and creating animated scenes that come from each season, as well as playing matching games and other games.

Some themes include: Halloween and halloween costumes, winter animals, hibernation, raking leaves, picnics, Camping, the beach, the pool, building snowmen, spring flowers, spring rain, the garden, dressing for winter, blooming flowers, spring creatures, baby animals, sledding, back to school, in the classroom and more.

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The Seasons - Games and activities for kids.

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Our Seasons section is for your child or student's creative side, with painting and creative activities. Kids will learn about the four seasons: Spring, Summer, Fall (Autumn) and Winter by painting and creating animated scenes that come from each season, as well as playing matching games and other games.

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Winter – Paint & Make: Dress for Winter

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Winter – Paint & Make: Dress for Winter

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A winter specific activity where students can “dress” winter scenes with scarves, hats, mittens, snow fun elements, helping to reinforce the idea that appropriate gear matters in winter.

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Our Seasons Paint and Makes are creative activities for kids. Learn about the
4 seasons - spring, winter, summer & fall, while painting scenes and placing
seasonal objects in the scene! Kids can play this over and over and create
so many different winter scenes.

build snow people with snow, sticks and stones, dress them up in fun ways"Dress for Winter" also helps kids understand the importance of dressing warmly for winter!
"Snowmen"
with scarves, hats, mittens and earmuffs!

"Winter Kids" shows the winter fun kids can have - sledding and building with snow!
"Winter Animals" shows some animals in the winter and what they might be doing!
"Snow animals" leaves the most up to the imagination of the kids! So many combinations
of animals can be made with the various sized snowballs, sticks and leaves - encouraging
problem solving and creativity!

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Our Seasons Paint and Makes are creative activities for kids. Learn about the 4 seasons - spring, winter, summer & fall, while painting scenes and placing seasonal objects in the scene! Kids can play this over and over and create so many different winter scenes.

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Cute little video of why we can see the moon in the daytime

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Description: Many students (and teachers) believe that you can only see the moon during the nighttime. You can actually see the moon during the day almost every day. You just need to know where and when to look. This phenomenon can be used to start building an accurate conceptual model of where the Earth is in space. Students should start recording patters of where and when the moon can be seen and then accounting for this evidence using a model.

Web Resource: Why Do We See the Moon in Daylight - Space.com

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Seeing the Moon During the Day - The Wonder of Science

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Description: Many students (and teachers) believe that you can only see the moon during the nighttime. You can actually see the moon during the day almost every day. You just need to know where and when to look. This phenomenon can be used to start building an accurate conceptual

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Assessment for how seasons make light change

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An Interactive animated storybook where students observe and predict how the Sun, Moon, and stars move over a day.

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Sky Patterns: Sun, Moon, and Stars | PBS LearningMedia

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Observe the regular, predictable patterns of the Sun, Moon, and stars in the sky in this media gallery from WGBH. Interact with the animated storybook to observe and predict patterns of the Sun, Moon, and stars over a day and analyze evidence of the apparent movement of the Sun along the arc-like path over a day in a time-lapse video.

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An interactive lesson where students use models to explore why the Moon has phases.

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Phases of the Moon: Part 1 | Interactive Lesson | PBS LearningMedia

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Explore why the Moon has phases with this first of two interactive lessons that allows students to use simulations and models of the Earth–Sun–Moon system. The lesson includes handouts for students to complete while using multiple simulations that model how the relative positions of the Sun, the Moon, and Earth lead to the cycle of changes in the Moon’s apparent shape.
The second of these two interactive lessons can be found at Phases of the Moon: Part 2.

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An Interactive model showing how shadows change length and direction as Earth rotates.

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Observing Shadows on Earth | PBS LearningMedia

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Observe and learn how shadows at select northern and southern hemisphere locations change length and direction as Earth rotates, using an interactive Earth model and a narrated video. This resource stimulates students’ thinking about shadows as they observe and analyze the pattern that results from the Earth–Sun relationship.

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A phenomenon-based K-2 unit where students collect and use simple weather data (like temperature, cloud cover, rain) to ask questions and think about preparing for different weather conditions

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Have you ever wondered what the weather is like so you can get ready to go outside and be comfortable? This unit begins with a shared experience of observing what it looks and feels like outside and discussing how we got ready and were (or were not) comfortable outside. Students’ noticings and questions about different weather conditions lead them to make and use data collection tools to observe temperature, cloud cover, rain and/or snow amounts, and wind speed. As they look across class data, they use counting tools such as tally charts to identify consensus observations, which they record on a class Weather Calendar. Later, students use the data they collected over time to identify patterns and describe what the weather is usually like. Building on these patterns, students read about how meteorologists use weather patterns to make weather forecasts and that, sometimes, these forecasts are for severe (unsafe) weather. Students then obtain information about how we can prepare and respond to severe weather to keep ourselves and others safe and create Community Service Announcements to communicate what they have figured out.

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A game where students shake cups to match sound pairs using their sense of hearing

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A cute Generation Genious video about the 5 senses that help living things survive

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The Five Senses SONG | Science for Kids | Grades K-2

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How Does Light Help Me See Things and Communicate with Others?

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How Does Light Help Me See Things and Communicate with Others?

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Unit materials for how light helps to see things as well as communicate

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G1 Light, Sight, and Communication Unit Landing Page-v2.0