First Grade Science

About Grade 1 Science

Grade 1 science (1st grade, ages 6–7) is 40 lessons in 5 units: Living and Nonliving (lessons 1–8), The Earth and Sky (lessons 9–16), Materials and Matter (lessons 17–24), Our Body and Health (lessons 25–32), and finally Science Projects (lessons 33–40), project work that brings the year together. Along the way, children learn to describe the moon as the Earth's natural satellite that reflects sunlight, sequence the five steps of water changing from solid ice to steam and name the five food groups.

Start here: Lesson 1: What Is Living? is free to open and print. Every other lesson has a free preview of its mini lesson and vocabulary.

Paper first: each lesson is printed before you call your child. You read it once and talk it through, your child does the exercises on paper, and you correct together with the Parent checklist — about 45 minutes at the table. The next day, a 10-minute screen review of the same lesson.