NY 1st Grade Science Curriculum

NY 1st Grade Science Topics

• STEM Skills and Engineering Design: Students practice the habits of scientific inquiry and work through the engineering design process to solve simple problems.
• Life Science - Classification, Survival Needs, and Life Cycles: Students sort living things, investigate what plants and animals need to survive, and trace the stages of different life cycles.
• Life Science - Plants and Animals: Students examine how plants grow and how animals use body structures and behaviors to meet their needs.
• Physical Science - Properties, Changes, and Motion: Students observe and describe the properties of materials, explore how materials change, and investigate the motion of objects.
• Physical Science - Light and Sound: Students investigate how light travels and how sound is produced and detected.
• Earth Science - Daily Patterns, Weather, Natural Resources, and Local Ecosystems: Students observe patterns in the sky, describe and record weather, identify natural resources, and explore the plants and animals in their local environment.
• Tools, Traditional Knowledge, Foundation Review, and Challenge Zone: Students use science tools, learn about traditional knowledge of the natural world, revisit foundational concepts, and tackle enrichment challenges.

How StudyPug Helps NY 1st Grade Science Students

When a 1st grader gets stuck on a concept - whether it is figuring out a plant life cycle or understanding why objects move - StudyPug provides short video lessons and step-by-step explanations that break each idea down clearly. Parents can check the Parent Assignments feature to see what their child is working on and where extra support might help. For families building from last year, the NY kindergarten science curriculum is available to fill any gaps before moving forward.

For grade 1 science help, every NYSSLS strand is covered with practice problems and instant feedback so students can build confidence topic by topic. As the year progresses, families can also preview what comes next with the NY grade 2 science curriculum.

Aligned to NY 1st Grade Science Curriculum

All StudyPug 1st grade science content is aligned to the New York State Science Learning Standards (NYSSLS), which are based on the Next Generation Science Standards framework. Every lesson and practice problem maps to the disciplinary core ideas, science and engineering practices, and crosscutting concepts that New York 1st grade classrooms follow, so what students learn on StudyPug directly supports what they are doing in school.