Which is the best pet a dog or a cat? Learn, read, play, and dance with cats and dogs to make your derision and write your opinion.

Students learn about frogs as they read, write play and create. Meet unique frogs and their special survival tactics and learn about the frog life cycle.

Learn how we can see the different colors? Is light really colorful? And why is the sky blue? As you experiment read write create.

Kids learn about Pizza and Ice cream and compere the two in order to decide which is better? Opinion writing made fun and engaging. Can be adapted to second grade. Includes rubric, home activity, and extras.

Students answer the question, Is it an Alligator or a Crocodile?, after learning to tell the difference through their research.

Teacher led or independent work to teach students about listening. Good practice to start the school year. Learn what you need to be a good listener? What does good listening look like? And why listening is important?

Intended for a week of mindset work. Students learn about mindset & how mistakes aren't bad.

Learn about the moon and the moon phases, where is it from and where is it going with fun activities, simulates, songs and crafts.

The No Place Like Home unit focuses on the following fundamental ideas: 1) plants and animals have unique and diverse life cycles; 2) in addition to being inherited from parents, many characteristics of organisms result from interactions with the environment; 3) and sometimes differences in characteristics between individuals of the same species provide survival advantages. There are three learning cycles in this unit. In the first cycle, students create and use explanatory models to explain the life stages and reproductive cycles of different types of organisms. In Cycle 2, students investigate how the traits of the same type of plants and animals grown from different parents and under different environmental conditions might vary. Students apply what they have figured out to a plan for growing a plant with specific traits. In Cycle 3, students investigate how trait variation within a population impacts the survival of the individuals and the population as a whole. They use the explanatory reproductive cycle models developed in Cycle 1 to support predictions of how trait variation might impact the ability of an organism to survive, find a mate, and reproduce.

Students visit the Grand Rapids sculpture park and other famous statues from around the world as they read write calculate, create and explore.

Students learn how to create an effective opinion piece step-by-step. This can be used for any opinion topic. Rubric included.

UMCDC 1st Grade MIOpenBook Chapter 1 "How do people get along with others?" (20-21)

UMCDC 1st Grade MIOpenBook Chapter 1 Section 1 "How can rules help us get along?" (20-21)

UMCDC 1st Grade MIOpenBook Chapter 1 Section 2 "How are our responsibilities at home and school alike?" (20-21)

UMCDC 1st Grade MIOpenBook Chapter 1 Section 3 "How do we solve problems in our classroom and school?" (20-21)

UMCDC 1st Grade MIOpenBook Chapter 1 Section 4 "How can we be good citizens?" (20-21)

UMCDC 1st Grade MIOpenBook Chapter 2 Section 1 "What is your family's history?" (20-21)

UMCDC 1st Grade MIOpenBook Chapter 2 Section 2 "What is our school's history?" (20-21)

UMCDC 1st Grade MIOpenBook Chapter 2 Section 3 "What are our traditions?" (20-21)