VT 1st Grade Science Curriculum

VT 1st Grade Science Topics

• STEM Skills and Engineering Design - Students learn to ask questions, plan investigations, and work through the engineering design process to solve simple problems.
• Classification, Survival Needs, and Life Cycles - Students sort living and non-living things, identify what plants and animals need to survive, and trace life cycles from birth through growth to reproduction.
• Plants and Animals - Students observe how plants and animals are structured, how they behave, and how their features help them meet survival needs in their environments.
• Properties and Changes - Students describe and sort objects by observable properties such as color, texture, and hardness, and explore how materials can change.
• Motion, Light, and Sound - Students investigate how pushes and pulls affect the movement of objects, and how light and sound travel and interact with materials.
• Daily Patterns and Weather - Students observe daily and seasonal patterns in sunlight and temperature, and record weather data to identify trends over time.
• Natural Resources and Local Ecosystems - Students explore the natural resources in their region, examine local ecosystems, and consider how living things depend on the environment around them.
• Tools, Traditional Knowledge, and Review - Students use basic science tools, encounter traditional knowledge about the natural world, and revisit foundational concepts through challenge and review activities.

How StudyPug Helps Vermont 1st Grade Science Students

When a student gets stuck on a concept like light and sound or how a life cycle works, StudyPug lets them go back to the lesson, watch it again, and work through practice problems with step-by-step explanations until the idea makes sense. You can find grade 1 science help covering every major topic in the course, organized so students can jump straight to what they need.

Parents can track progress through the parent assignments feature and use smart recommendations to focus practice time where it matters most. Whether your child is building on skills from the vt kindergarten science curriculum or getting ready to move ahead to the vt grade 2 science curriculum, StudyPug supports steady progress at every step.

Aligned to Vermont 1st Grade Science Curriculum

Vermont follows the Vermont Science Standards, which are aligned to the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS). Every lesson and practice set on StudyPug is built around the same disciplinary core ideas, science and engineering practices, and crosscutting concepts that Vermont 1st grade teachers use in class, so students are always practicing what their school expects them to know.