Poogie's Science Units

I have really been struggling this year to come up with some thing fun and easy for science. I didn't want to purchase a full curriculum because I really don't think it is necessary at that age. So I ended up using her reading series Let's Read and Find Out Science that I had purchased from our monthly book club a while ago.

Here is our first lesson:

Subject: Science
Title: Living or Non Living
Grades: 1 & 2

Goals: Students will gain an understanding of the characteristics of living and non living things.

Objectives:
TLW identify and memorize the 4 basic characteristics of living things.
TLW sort and identify living and non living items based on known characteristics.
TLW determine what items is living vs non living by completing a coloring sheet.

Supplies:
Take it to Your Seat Science Centers Grades 1 & 2 by Evan-Moor
What’s Alive? Part of the Let’s Read and Find Out Science Series by Kathleen Weidner Zoehfeld.
Crayons for Job 2
Sketch pad, pencils, colored pencils etc. for Day 1 activity

Lessons:

Day 1
-I will read aloud What’s Alive?, and discuss the 4 basic characteristics of living things.
-We will then take a nature walk and draw several pictures of living things and non living things for our science journal.

Day 2
-We will review the 4 characteristics of living things using examples found in our home.
-The student will complete Job 1 in Science Centers activities.
-If student is still struggling with concepts I will create an activity using toys to represent living and non-living things to sort.
-I also have a file folder game much like the Science Center activities that can be used as a follow up.

Day 3
-Student will complete job 2 in the Science Centers activities. This sheet will be used as a grading tool to make sure objectives are met.

I will let ya'll know how it well this goes after this week. I plan on doing it MWF.