NH 1st Grade Science Curriculum

NH 1st Grade Science Topics

• STEM Skills and Engineering Design: Foundational habits of scientific thinking and the engineering design process, including identifying problems and testing solutions.
• Classification and Survival Needs: How living things are grouped and what plants and animals need to survive.
• Life Cycles, Plants, and Animals: The stages organisms go through, how plants grow, and how different animals live and behave.
• Properties and Changes: Describing and comparing materials by their physical properties and observing how materials can change.
• Motion, Light, and Sound: How objects move and how light and sound travel and interact with materials.
• Daily Patterns and Weather: Patterns in the sky across the day and seasons, and how weather is observed and recorded.
• Natural Resources and Local Ecosystems: Where natural resources come from and how living things interact in local environments.
• Tools, Traditional Knowledge, Foundation Review, and Challenge Zone: Scientific tools, indigenous ways of knowing, review of kindergarten concepts, and extension activities for confident learners.

How StudyPug Helps NH 1st Grade Science Students

When your child gets stuck on a science topic -- whether it is understanding a plant life cycle or describing what makes materials different -- they can find that exact lesson on StudyPug, watch it as many times as needed, and then try practice problems to check their understanding. Our grade 1 science help is organized so families can jump straight to the strand causing confusion without sitting through unrelated content.

StudyPug also supports the full picture of a student's learning journey. If your child needs a quick refresher on a kindergarten concept before moving forward, the Foundation Review strand makes that easy. For students ready to push further, the Challenge Zone provides extended problems that go beyond the core curriculum.

Aligned to NH 1st Grade Science Curriculum

Every lesson and practice problem on StudyPug is matched to the NH College and Career Ready Science Standards for 1st grade. Whether your child's class is working through engineering design, exploring local ecosystems, or learning about weather patterns, the content here reflects what New Hampshire schools teach. Families moving between years can also explore the NH kindergarten science curriculum or look ahead to the NH grade 2 science curriculum to see how the strands build across the early grades.