1st Grade: Science
3rd Marking
period
What question do we ask ourselves?
Thinking and Academic Skills
 What evidence exists that the surface of the Earth is changing?
 How do human actions help and harm the environment?
 How does knowing the properties of objects help you
communicate an understanding about those objects?
Synthesis Persistence
What do we need to know and be
able to do?
 Observe, describe, and compare Earth materials
 Identify features of the Earth made by humans and
not made by humans
How will we master the objectives?
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 Identify ways to care for the environment
Investigate objects and materials in the environment
Identify aspects of the environment that are made by
humans and natural features not made by humans
Recognize that caring about the environment is an
important human activity
Recognize that individual and group actions, such as
littering, harm the environment
Vocabulary
environment
soil rock sand Earth materials
erosion
human-made objects
natural features
recycle
What resources will we use?
Hand lenses Tweezers
Rocks
PebbleGo Graphic Organizers
Sand
Soil