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Kindergarten and 1st Grade Common Core Life Science Lesson Plans

Let your students spread their wings with this lesson that teaches them about the life cycle of a butterfly. A fun song will get your class moving and a variety of different worksheets will suit any class.

The Life Cycle of a Butterfly

In this fun forest animal inspired lesson plan, students will learn all about the forest using a nonfiction text before creating their very own forest animal page!

Who Lives in the Forest?

Spring is here! You can feel it, hear it, smell it, taste it, and see it! In this spring lesson plan, students will create a spring poem using their five senses.

Spring Senses Poem

In this lesson, you will use “The Very Hungry Caterpillar” to teach students about the butterfly life cycle. After listening to the story read aloud, students will use their knowledge to create their own butterfly life cycles! 

The Very Hungry Caterpillar: A Butterfly's Life Cycle

This science and writing inspired lesson combines the five senses with weather predictions! Kindergarten students will love practicing their observation skills as they imagine tomorrow&rsquo;s weather.

Five Senses Weather

Have your students get energized while they learn about animal locomotion and move around like various animals!


Move Like an Animal!

Provide students with an opportunity to closely examine the difference between a topic and main idea in a nonfiction text. Use as a stand-alone activity or a support for the Finding the Main Idea and Details in a Nonfiction Text lesson. 

Main Idea or Topic? You Decide!

In this fun mystery bag lesson, students will practice using their five senses to describe objects to their peers. This can be used as a stand-alone lesson or as support for the Spring Senses Poem lesson plan.

Five Senses Mystery Bags

How does your garden grow? In this lesson, students will practice listening comprehension, vocabulary, and story sequencing. This hands-on art and literacy lesson is perfect for Earth Day, or any nature unit. 

Flower Garden: Literacy

Learning the five senses helps children better explore the world around them. This fun-filled lesson helps students gain a better understanding of sight, hearing, touch, taste, and smell.

My Five Senses

In this lesson, students will use their five senses to tell about a picture. They will gain experience articulating and recognizing sensory details while building language skills.

Describe Sensory Details

Our senses help us explore the world around us! In this lesson, students tackle silly questions like &quot;Can you taste with your eye?&quot; and &quot;Can you smell with your ear?&quot; to expand their knowledge of the five senses.

Five Senses: Can You Taste With Your Eye?

This fun art-inspired lesson will give your students a chance to dive into a study of the five senses.

Five Senses Artists

This five senses inspired lesson will get your students excited about using their observation skills as they go on a classroom scavenger hunt!

A Five Senses Adventure

All about the "B"utiful butterfly! Use this kinesthetic and creative lesson about the butterfly to focus on the letter B. Your students will also love learning about the butterfly life cycle.

Beautiful Butterflies: The Letter B

In this fun compare and contrast lesson plan, preschool students will dive into the world of cows! Can be used as a stand alone or support lesson for the  **Imagination Real or Make Believe** lesson plan.

Real or Not?

In this fun animal-themed lesson plan, students will get a chance to learn all about animals and their homes!

Is That My Home?

What happens when you observe the animals (or children) at the zoo? Find out in this fun writing and science infused lesson that combines learning about the five senses with humor!

Five Senses at the Zoo

What's so great about a tree? With this lesson, your students will be able to find out by exploring the benefits of trees through a beautiful story, catchy song and fun drawing activity. 


Parts of a Tree

In this caterpillar-focused lesson plan, students will practice identifying words that begin with the letter C, while learning about the metamorphosis of a butterfly. This can be used as a stand alone or support lesson for your ELs.

Linking Letter Sounds

This five senses art and writing lesson will give your students an up close and personal look at the five senses and themselves.

My Five Senses Portrait

Teach your students about living and nonliving things with this interactive lesson that keeps your class engaged as they learn!

Identifying Living and Nonliving Things

In this lesson, students will explore the life cycle of a pumpkin plant. Then they will have the chance to grow their own!

How Pumpkins Grow

ELs will gain valuable practice learning about text features as they practice close reading and communication skills during a nonfiction picture walk. Use on its own or as a support for the Classifying Nonfiction Text Features lesson plan. 

Going on a Nonfiction Picture Walk

Combine the power of poetry and storytelling to teach your first graders about sensory language in this exciting lesson.

Sensory Language: Writing a Five Senses Poem

Your students will be able to sequence the events in a story after this fun-filled lesson about insects!

Sequence It

What are the five senses and how do we use them everyday? Students get a chance to practice using sensory language as they think about the world around them. Can be used as a stand alone or support for the Writing a Five Senses Poem lesson.

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