Sample Lesson with Connection to Science Skills

Grade 1: Daily and Seasonal Changes Lesson Plan

This lesson is an experiment showing students the effects of hibernation and how it helps some animals stay warm during the winter. This lesson starts by introducing the term and a list of materials that could be used to keep the animals warm. This activity must be meet the six science skills that are required for teaching and learning science. Those are: Prediction, Observation, Measurement, Classification, Communication, and Inference.

Predication occurs in this lesson at the introduction of the experiment.  Students are given a list of materials and they must than predict what materials would be best suited for hibernation.

Observation occurs in this activity by conducting a science inquiry and then observing the reaction of the gelatin in ice.

Measurement occurs when the students must measure out the amount of water and gelatin is needed for this experiment.

Classification occurs by classify which of the two bags of gelatin would be beneficial to animals in hibernation.

Communication could occur if you had the students example the evidence supported by their observations and what they concluded about animals and hibernation from this experiment.

Inference occurs when the students must determine which of the two bags of gelatin would keep an animal warm during winter months.

This lesson meets most of the skills required for science but could be expanded upon in order to fully examine each skill.