We aren’t mind readers, but we can still figure out why the author wrote a text and what an author thinks about the topic! This lesson will teach your students the main purposes for writing.

One of the basic concepts in science is recognizing that all things can be classified as living or nonliving. In this lesson, your students will explore the characteristics of living and nonliving things with engaging hands-on activities.

This lesson will provide students with an opportunity to become more comfortable with identifying and defining academic vocabulary words in a nonfiction text about a chicken's life cycle to support comprehension.

Your students will love learning about nonfiction texts and the life cycle of a seed with a classic story, simple video, and a cut and paste activity!

Give your students the opportunity to explore the perspectives of different characters by using the "See Think Wonder" Visible Thinking Routine from Harvard's Project Zero.

Through visual and auditory activities, students will get to learn about characteristics of living and nonliving things and be able to classify them on their own.

Use this lesson to have your students learn about producers and consumers by pretending to be one.

What's so great about a tree? With this lesson, your students will be able to find out by exploring the benefits of trees through a beautiful story, catchy song and fun drawing activity.

In this lesson, you will use “The Very Hungry Caterpillar” to teach students about the butterfly life cycle. After listening to the story read aloud, students will use their knowledge to create their own butterfly life cycles!

Students will go wild for this hands-on habitat lesson. Who can help the animals find their homes?

Combine the power of poetry and storytelling to teach your first graders about sensory language in this exciting lesson.