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1st Grade Science Resources

332 1st grade science resources: 122 worksheets, 102 activities, 51 songs and more, covering animals, life science, health and nutrition, plus more. How teachers use these

1st Grade Science Resources

332 1st grade science resources: 122 worksheets, 102 activities, 51 songs and more, covering animals, life science, health and nutrition, plus more. How teachers use these

Assessment
Assessment1st GradeAll About Autumn Reading Comprehension Worksheet

The All About Autumn Reading Comprehension Worksheet gives 1st graders a short fall passage and multiple-choice questions to build reading comprehension. An answer key is included for quick, no-prep practice at home or school.

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Video1st GradeSeasons Song (Animated Music Video)

While listening to the Seasons Song (Animated Music Video), students learn about the seasons of the year while listening to a catchy song. Here we go, oh, seasons of the year! Your kids will be singing this song about the seasons over and over. Bring joy into your classroom with…

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Video1st GradeMammal Song

The Mammal Song by Have Fun Teaching is perfect for teaching and learning all about mammals. This animated music video teaches that mammals breathe air with lungs, are warm-blooded, have fur or hair, give birth to live young and feed their babies milk. While watching the Mammal Song, students learn…

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Video1st GradeSeasons Song

The Seasons Song by Have Fun Teaching is perfect for teaching and learning all about the seasons of the year. This is a fun way for kids to learn the seasons. With this seasons song, your kids can learn about Spring, Summer, Fall, and Winter. While listening to the Seasons…

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Video1st GradeWater Cycle Song (Animated Music Video)

While watching the Water Cycle Song (Animated Music Video), students learn about the process of the water cycle by listening to the repetitive lyrics loaded with key vocabulary.

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Video1st GradeMatter Song

The Matter Song teaches all about matter and the states of matter. With this states of matter song, students learn about solid, liquid, and gas, as well as the phases of matter, properties of matter, physical changes, chemical changes, and so much more. Matter has mass and takes up space.…

Worksheet
Worksheet1st GradeSeasons of the Year Matching Worksheet

A colorful seasons of the year matching worksheet where 1st graders match spring, summer, fall, and winter to pictures, then write each season from a clue. Answer key included — perfect for no-prep science practice.

Worksheet
Worksheet1st GradeWhat Food is This Reading Comprehension Worksheet

This what food is this reading comprehension worksheet lets 1st graders read food clues and choose the correct food in six fun riddles. Includes a complete answer key — great for quick, no-prep reading practice.

Worksheet
Worksheet1st GradeMammals, Fish, or Birds Classifying Animals Worksheet

A 1st grade Mammals, Fish, or Birds Classifying Animals Worksheet where students sort a word bank of animals into three groups. Includes a complete answer key for quick, no-prep science practice.

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Video1st GradePlanets Song (Animated Music Video)

While watching the Planets Song (Animated Music Video), students learn about the order of planets in our solar system as well as cool facts about each planet.

Worksheet
Worksheet1st GradeBody Parts Worksheet

This Body Parts Worksheet helps 1st Grade students name the nose, hand, ear, mouth, foot, and eye with a picture word bank, then show what each part does. Answer key included.

Worksheet
Worksheet1st GradeReptile Classification Worksheet

This reptile classification worksheet helps 1st graders sort animals by circling reptiles, matching them to their names, and completing simple reptile facts. Includes a complete answer key for fast, no-prep life science practice.

Flash Cards
Flash Cards1st GradeThanksgiving Flash Cards

These Thanksgiving flash cards give preschool through 2nd grade children 18 self-checking picture and word cards for building holiday vocabulary. A card list answer key is included.

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Video1st GradeJumping Jack Song (MP3)

Using this Jumping Jack Song (MP3), your students will be working up a sweat as they do jumping jacks along with the catchy beat.

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Bundle1st GradeScience Songs (MP3 Album)

Using the Science Songs (MP3 Album), students learn about different science concepts while listening to these upbeat and catchy songs.

Worksheet
Worksheet1st GradeCategorizing Objects Worksheet

This Categorizing Objects Worksheet helps 1st graders read nine words and sort them into groups like animals, food, and colors. Includes a complete answer key for quick, no-prep classification practice.

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Video1st GradeParts of the Body Song (Animated Music Video)

While Parts of the Body Song (Animated Music Video), students learn about the different parts of the body while listening to catchy lyrics.

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Video1st GradeMoon Song (Animated Music Video)

Using thisMoon Song (Animated Music Video), students learn about the phases of the moon through catchy, interesting lyrics.

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Video1st GradeCreation Song

While watching the Creation Song, students learn about the days of Creation perfect for Sunday school, kid's church, and Bible lessons for kids. Bring joy and understanding into your kid's church, Sunday school, and classroom with this song about the days of Creation. Your kids will love a new way…

Flash Cards
Flash Cards1st GradeEmotions Flash Cards

These emotions flash cards help Kindergarten to 3rd Grade students name 18 feelings by reading children's faces. Fold-over cards show the face and the word. Answer key included.

From our teachers' playbook

Little scientists, big wonders

What do 1st graders learn in science?

First grade science is about noticing patterns and asking why. Kids watch the sky and the seasons change and describe patterns like more daylight in summer, less in winter. They explore light and sound: how vibrating things make sound and how we need light to see. They study plants and animals, what their parts do and how babies resemble their parents. They use their five senses to observe, sort objects by properties and test things like whether objects sink or float. The click moment is when a child makes a prediction, tests it and says, "I was right!" or even better, "Whoa, I was wrong!"

Our favorite ways to teach 1st grade science

First graders learn science by doing. These moves keep their hands busy and their questions coming.

Sing the seasons

Play the Seasons Song and have kids act out each season: shivering, splashing, raking leaves. Then go outside, look at the trees and decide which season you're in and why.

Why it works: words set to a repeating melody are easier to recall than the same words spoken (Wallace, 1994).

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Sink or float lab

Fill a tub with water and gather a spoon, a cork, a coin and a leaf. Kids predict sink or float, test each one and record results. Then they look for a pattern in what floats.

Why it works: kids understand an idea best when they touch it, then draw it, then write it, the order the U.S. Department of Education recommends for elementary math.

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Read about autumn

Read the autumn passage together, answer the questions and then take a short fall walk to find the clues from the text, like changing leaves. Reading plus observing is a great combo.

Why it works: pulling an answer out of memory makes it stick far better than rereading it, one of the strongest findings in learning research (Dunlosky and colleagues, 2013).

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Questions teachers and parents ask

What do 1st graders learn in science?

First graders learn about sky and season patterns, light and sound, plant and animal parts, how young animals resemble their parents, the five senses and the properties of objects.

How do I teach science to 1st graders?

Keep it hands-on: observe, predict, test and talk. Simple experiments with water, light and sound and outdoor walks make concepts real.

What are easy science experiments for 1st grade?

Sink or float, making shadows with a flashlight, growing a bean, making sounds with rubber bands and watching ice melt are all simple and fun.

How can I support science at home?

Ask "Why do you think that happened?" during everyday moments. Look at the moon, watch plants grow and let your child test their own ideas.