Classroom Programs for 1st Grade
What is a Plant?
Through puzzles, books, and role-play, students learn the basic structure of a plant. They also learn that plants come in many shapes and sizes.
- NY: Standard 4: The Living Environment
1.1b Plants require air, water, nutrients, and light in order to live and thrive.
4.1b Each kind of plant goes through its own stages of growth and development that may include seed, young plant, and mature plant. - PA: B3.3.4 A.3 Describe the basic needs of plants and animals.
Eat it! Wear it! Use it!
Plants are vital to our survival! Students learn that there are plants we can eat, wear, and use.
- NY :Standard 4: The Living Environment
7.1a:Humans depend on their natural and constructed environments. - PA: 4.4.A Know that food and fiber originate from plants and animals.
Seeds ‘n’ Such
Many plants make new plants by making seeds. Seeds must get to a new location where they will find everything they need to grow: sunlight, soil, water, and fresh air. Some seeds travel on the wind; others hitchhike on animals (or us).
- NY : Standard 4: The Living Environment
1.1b Plants need air, water, nutrients, and light in order to live and thrive
2.2b Plants and animals can transfer specific traits to their offspring when they reproduce.
3.1b Each plant has different structures that serve different functions in growth, survival, and reproduction
3.1c In order to survive in their environment, plants and animals must be adapted to that environment
4.1b Each kind of plant goes through it own stages of growth and development that may include seed, young plant and mature plant
4.1c The length of time from beginning of development to death of the plant is called its life span.
4.1d Life cycles of some plants include changes from seed to mature plant.
6.2a Plants manufacture food by utilizing air, water, and energy from the Sun.
- PA: EE.4.6.4 A3 Identify basic needs of a plant and an animal and explain how their needs are met.
- PA: B.3.4 A1 Identify life processes of living things (e.g., growth, digestion, react to environment).
- PA: B.3.3.4 B2 Determine how different parts of a living thing work together to make the organism function.
