Water Cycle 
FIRST GRADE
4 week unit

1. Students should understand evaporation and precipitation.
2. Students should recognize the water cycle.
3. Students should recognize a difference between fresh and salt water.
4. Students should begin to understand dissolve.
5. Students should recognize the atmosphere is made of air.
6. Students should begin understanding that air is matter.
7. Students should begin to understand temperature.
8. Students should know that a thermometer records temperature.
9. Students should begin to recognize different types of weather.

OVERVIEW OF FIRST GRADE

WATER

WEEK 1.
PRE: Investigating the water cycle.
LAB: Experiencing surface tension.}
POST: Discovering how water is used by humans.

OCEANS

WEEK 2.
PRE: Discovering bodies of fresh and salt water.
LAB: Dissolving salt in water.
POST: Exploring how the oceans became salty.

ATMOSPHERE

WEEK 3.
PRE: Discovering that air is all around us.
LAB: Experimenting with air.
POST: Demonstrating the movement of air.

WEATHER

WEEK 4.
PRE: Comparing hot and cold.
LAB: Discovering how to use a thermometer.
POST: Understanding that the weather changes everywhere.