Grade 1
The Amplify Science grade 1 program progressively builds students’ abilities to master content through a three-dimensional instructional sequence. The following is an overview of the sequence of units, as well as a description of the phenomenon and student role students take on in each one.
Sequence of units
- Animal and Plant Defenses
- Light and Sound
- Spinning Earth
Animal and Plant Defenses
Spruce the Sea Turtle lives in an aquarium and will soon be released back into the ocean, where she will survive despite ocean predators.
Students play the role of aquarium scientists. In their role, students apply their understanding of plant and animal defense structures to explain to aquarium visitors how a sea turtle and her offspring can defend themselves from ocean predators when they are released into the wild.
Light and Sound
A puppet show company uses light and sound to depict realistic scenes in puppet shows.
Students take on the role of light and sound engineers for a puppet show company as they investigate cause and effect relationships to learn about the nature of light and sound. They apply what they learn to design shadow scenery and sound effects for a puppet show.
Spinning Earth
The sky looks different to Sai and his grandma when they talk on the phone.
As sky scientists, students explain why a boy living in a place near them sees different things in the sky than his grandma when he talks to her on the phone. Students record, organize, and analyze observations of the sun and other sky objects as they look for patterns and make sense of the cycle of daytime and nighttime.