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🔬 1st Grade · Science1-LS1-1Unit 2: Plant & animal parts

Copying nature

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🎯 Objective: Students design a solution inspired by plant or animal parts (e.g., a helmet like a turtle shell).

Lesson outline

  1. Examples of biomimicry.
  2. Design.
  3. Share.
  4. Exit: what did you copy?

Lesson 3 of 5 in this unit. In the Lesson Planner this lesson takes 1–3 class periods depending on your timetable: day 1 introduce & model, then practice, small-group reteach and a quick check.

📐 Standard

1-LS1-1

Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS), Grade 1 — typical US unit order

🏁 Unit goals

  • Describe how plants and animals use their parts to survive
  • Design solutions that mimic nature

✅ Check for understanding

End with the exit ticket in the outline. Sort answers into got it / almost / not yet and start the next lesson with a 5-minute reteach for the “not yets”.

Practice & resources on Thinkabara

🦫 Encyclopedia: Science🦫 Kids encyclopedia⚡ Capy Live class quiz

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