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…
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.
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.
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.
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…
This Seeds Plants Fill in the Blanks Worksheet lets 1st graders use a word bank to complete eight sentences about how to plant a seed and help it grow. An answer key is included for quick, no-prep science practice.
This senses touch worksheet has first grade students circle the objects that feel soft, then write texture words to finish three sentences. An answer key is included, so checking the work takes seconds.
Students label nine friendly animal pictures using a nine-word bank in this animal names worksheet. Built for 1st Grade science, with an answer key included so checking work takes seconds.
Use this Importance of Farming Worksheet to help 1st Grade students sort six farm foods into plants and animals and decide what farms really give people. Answer key included for fast, no-prep science practice.
This Describing Characteristics Living Things Worksheet asks first graders to check off six pictures and finish four sentences about what living things need. Answer key included for fast, no-prep science practice.
Students use a word box to complete eight sentences with the body parts fill in the blanks worksheet, then write one of their own. Built for 1st Grade with an answer key included, it makes naming body parts simple.
The Amphibian Song by Have Fun Teaching is perfect for teaching and learning all about amphibians. This animated music video teaches that amphibians live on land and in water, start life with gills, go through metamorphosis and have moist skin without scales. While watching the Amphibian Song, students learn the…
This Basic Fish Parts Worksheet asks 1st graders to label six numbered parts on a big, friendly fish using a word box. An answer key is included, so science practice takes no prep at all.
This Plant Parts We Eat Worksheet helps 1st graders match eight foods to the plant part we eat, using a helpful word box. Includes an answer key for easy, no-prep plant science practice.
UsingCharacter Reading Comprehension Workbook, students can have all of the passages about different life science topics all in one workbook.
This senses smell worksheet asks 1st graders to circle the things that carry a strong smell, then finish three sentences from a word box. Answer key included for teachers and homeschool parents.
The Bird Song by Have Fun Teaching is perfect for teaching and learning all about birds. This animated music video teaches that birds have beaks but no teeth, walk on two feet, lay eggs, are warm-blooded, have backbones and are covered with feathers. While watching the Bird Song, students learn…
The Fish Song by Have Fun Teaching is perfect for teaching and learning all about fish. This animated music video teaches that fish have fins and scales, swim in water, breathe with gills, have skeletons of cartilage or bone, and live in freshwater and saltwater. While watching the Fish Song,…
The Insect Song by Have Fun Teaching is perfect for teaching and learning all about insects. This animated music video teaches what makes an insect an insect: an exoskeleton, three body parts (head, thorax and abdomen), six legs and two antennae. While watching the Insect Song, students learn the traits…
This animal riddles worksheet has first graders read three clues about an animal, choose its name from a word box, and then write their own clues about an owl. Answer key included for quick, no-prep science practice.
Roots, fins, fur and five senses
First graders look closely at living things and ask, "How does this help it survive?" They learn that plants have parts with jobs, roots drink · stems hold up · leaves make food, and that animals use body parts like claws, fins and shells to find food and stay safe. They notice that baby animals look a lot like their parents, but not exactly, and that parents help their young survive. They sort animals into groups and use their five senses to observe. The click moment is when kids start inventing their own ideas from nature, like a helmet shaped like a turtle shell.
First grade science should be hands-on, loud and full of questions. These moves make that happen.
Play the Mammal Song and have kids stand up every time they hear a feature, like fur or drinking milk. Afterwards, they list the features they remember and check them against the song.
Why it works: a catchy, repeating tune gives the brain a hook to hang words on, so sung text is remembered better (Wallace, 1994).
Try it withMammal SongSongsOpen it →Give each group animal pictures and three labels: mammals, fish, birds. Kids sort, then explain one clue that made them decide. The worksheet afterwards shows who really got it.
Why it works: going from real objects to pictures to symbols is a core recommendation of the U.S. Department of Education's elementary math guide.
Try it withMammals, Fish, or Birds Classifying Animals WorksheetWorksheetsOpen it →Bring in carrots, celery, lettuce and seeds. Kids match each snack to the plant part it comes from, then draw a plant and label the parts we eat. Delicious science!
Why it works: pairing a picture with each word gives kids two ways to remember it, a well-tested principle of how people learn (Mayer, 2009).
Try it withPlant Parts We Eat WorksheetWorksheetsOpen it →Riddles and guessing games are perfect for curious first graders.
Worksheets"I have a long neck and eat leaves from tall trees." Kids guess, then write their own riddle.
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WorksheetsRead clues about roots, petals and seeds, and race to name the plant part.
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WorksheetsShow objects and pictures and kids decide if each thing is living. They must give one reason!
Open Describing Characteristics Living Things Worksheet →Teacher favorites right now: Mammal Song, Mammals, Fish, or Birds Classifying Animals Worksheet and Body Parts Worksheet.
First grade life science covers plant and animal parts and their jobs, how young animals resemble their parents, how parents care for their young, animal groups and using the five senses to observe living things.
First graders learn roots, stems, leaves, flowers and seeds. Roots take in water, the stem holds the plant up, leaves make food, flowers make seeds and seeds grow new plants.
Animals use body parts to eat, move, protect themselves and stay warm. A bird uses its beak to crack seeds, a turtle hides in its shell and a fish uses fins to swim.
Go on a backyard or park walk and look for living things. Ask your child to describe them with their five senses and guess how each part helps the plant or animal survive.
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