California Science: Activity Lab Book: Teacher’s Guide: Grade 1

161 Pages·2008·6.79 MB·English

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Contents
LIFE SCIENCE
Chapter 1 Plants and Their Needs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Chapter 2 A nimals and Their Needs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Chapter 3 Plants and Animals Together . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .33
EARTH SCIENCE
Chapter 4 Weather . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .53
Chapter 5 Seasons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .69
PHYSICAL SCIENCE
Chapter 6 Solids, Liquids, and Gases . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .89
Chapter 7 Changing Solids, Liquids, and Gases . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .109
Everyday Science . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127
Learning Labs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141
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California science standards are noted at the top of activity pages. For the text of the
standards, please refer to the Reference section of the California Science Student Edition.
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Activity Lab Book
Name Date Explore
California Standard
How are plants different?
1 IE 4.b.
What to Do
You need
• paper
(cid:38) Observe. Find some plants

• crayons
around school. How many
different plants can you find?

Answers should include the color and size of the

plants and their leaves.
(cid:39) Record. On a blank sheet of paper, draw two

different plants that you find.
(cid:40) Compare. How are the plants alike? How are

they different?

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Chapter 1 • Plants and Their Needs Use with Lesson 1 1
Activity Lab Book Plants Everywhere
Explore Name Date
Explore More
(cid:41) Communicate. How could you find out more

about the plants you saw?

Look them up online; go to the library;
ask a grownup.
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Activity Lab Book Plants Everywhere
Alternative
Name Date
Explore
Compare Plants
What to Do
You need
(cid:38) Look at the plants that your • plants or

photos of
teacher has around the room.
plants
(cid:39) Record what you notice about

5 different plants.
Name of Plant What I See
(cid:40) Compare. How are the plants different from

one another? How are they the same?
Possible answer: The plants differ in size, shape,
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Activity Lab Book Plants Everywhere
Quick Lab Name Date
Alive or Not?
(cid:38) How do you know if something
You need
is alive or not?
• paper
Possible answer:
• crayons
Living things grow,
• scissors
• glue
• newspapers
breathe, and move.

or magazines
(cid:39) Look through newspapers and

magazines. Cut out pictures of
things that are living and things that are
nonliving.
(cid:40) Write LIVING at the top of one sheet of paper.

Write NONLIVING at the top of another sheet
of paper.
(cid:41) Glue pictures of things that are living to the

paper that says LIVING. Glue pictures of things
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NONLIVING collages.
4 Chapter 1 • Plants and Their Needs Use with Lesson 1
Activity Lab Book Plants Everywhere
Focus on
Name Date
Skills
California Standard
Observe
1 IE 4.b.
You use your senses to observe. You can see,
hear, taste, touch, or smell to find out
about things.
Learn It
Cindy wrote what she observed about a rose in
this chart.
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Activity Lab Book Plants Everywhere
Focus on
Name Date
Skills
Try It
Observe a plant.
(cid:38) What shape are the plant’s leaves?

Possible answers: flat and round; oval;
kind of like a triangle.
(cid:39) What does the plant feel like?

Possible answers: The plant’s leaves are rough
or fuzzy or smooth.
(cid:40) Make a chart like Cindy’s. Fill in what you observed.

My Plant
My plant has a green stem and
See
green leaves.
The stem is smooth. The leaves feel
Touch
smooth too.
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Activity Lab Book Plants Everywhere
Name Date Explore
California Standard
What happens if a plant
1 IE 4.e.
does not get water?
You need
What to Do
• two
plants
(cid:38) Water only the plant labeled

• water
“Water.”
• paper
(cid:39) Predict. What will happen to

each plant?
Possible answers: I think the plant without water
is going to get sick.

The plant that is watered will live and grow.
(cid:40) Observe. Watch your plants for a week. What

happens?

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Chapter 1 • Plants and Their Needs Use with Lesson 2 7
Activity Lab Book What Plants Need