Grade 1 Lesson plan
Applegarth Reservoir Blues: Mixing Tints for a Depth Chart
A grade 1 art lesson on tints: students mix blue with white to paint three swatches, sort them light to dark on a class reservoir chart, and caption one card.
Water Art & Music · Grade 1
Creative projects such as poster campaigns, water tower design, and storm-drain murals connect to real civic programs that many utilities sponsor.
17 materials written for this grade · refine by type, topic, or standard in the catalog
Grade 1 Worksheet
Cobblewick School Water-Saving Paper Quilt: A Grade 1 Worksheet
Twelve grade 1 art and place-value items about a hallway paper quilt, with rows of ten squares to count, a border pattern, and one square to design.
Grade 1 Worksheet
Dabble Brook, Back to Front: A Grade 1 Overlap Drawing Sheet
A grade 1 art worksheet on depth: students build one brook picture back to front, letting a bush hide part of the water and a hand hide part of the bush.
Grade 1 Classroom activity
Dovecote Hill Puddle Map: Crayon Rubbing Stations
A grade 1 art activity: three crayon rubbing stations record the texture of a grate, a brick path, and gravel for a class map of playground wet spots.
Grade 1 Classroom activity
Kettlewell Row Shadow Puppets: From the Tank to the Tap
A grade 1 art activity in which students cut black paper silhouettes of a tank, pipes, and a tap, then stage a shadow show that retells how water reaches a cup.
Grade 1 Worksheet
Sparrowgate Playground Puddle: Half-Hour Times on Three Drawings
A grade 1 art worksheet on observational drawing and half-hour clock times, built on three drawings of a schoolyard puddle drying in the sun.
Grade 1 Worksheet
Big Letters for Peppermint Court's Sink Signs
A grade 1 art worksheet on lettering and color contrast where students draw a fat-letter water sign for the classroom sink and give one reason for it.
Grade 1 Lesson plan
Clear, Cloudy, Muddy: Painting Mulberry Bend Creek
A 40-minute grade 1 art lesson where students mix three shades of blue to match three jars of clear, cloudy, and muddy water and caption a painted strip.
Grade 1 Worksheet
Design a Water Drop Icon: Pebblebrook's Picture Graph
A grade 1 art and data worksheet where students design a simple drop icon, then use it to build and read a three-row picture graph of one day's water use.
Grade 1 Classroom activity
Inkberry School's Dry Summer Water Art Gallery Walk
A 35-minute grade 1 activity where students draw one way their school could use less water in a dry summer, then leave notice cards at a gallery walk.
Grade 1 Worksheet
Milkweed Pond's Mirror Picture: A Reflection Worksheet
A grade 1 art worksheet where students fold a page at the water line, draw a tree and cloud above it, and mirror both below to show a pond reflection.
Grade 1 Lesson plan
Painting the Winterberry Water Tower: A Grade 1 Design Lesson
A 45-minute grade 1 art lesson where students draw the tall shape of a town water tower and design a picture for the tank, then defend their choice.
Grade 1 Lesson plan
Stamped Raindrop Banner for the Thimbleberry Water Crew
A 45-minute grade 1 art lesson where students print a repeating sponge-stamp border and add one fact about a water worker to a class thank-you banner.
Grade 1 Lesson plan
Still, Wavy, Zigzag: Splashmill Creek's Water Lines
A 40-minute grade 1 art lesson on line quality where students fold a three-page booklet and draw still, wavy, and zigzag water with a fact on each page.
Grade 1 Classroom activity
Torn-Paper Spicebush Creek: A Grade 1 Hallway Collage
A 45-minute grade 1 collage activity where pairs tear paper without scissors to build one long creek, add a muddy bare hill, and label what they glued down.
Grade 1 Classroom activity
Weaving a Rain Curtain for Starflower School's Window
A 40-minute grade 1 weaving activity where students measure blue paper strips in whole squares, then weave over and under to build a class rain curtain.
Grade 1 Lesson plan
A Raindrop's Path: A Grade 1 Water Cycle Sequence Mural Lesson
A 45-minute grade 1 art lesson where students draw one stage of the water cycle and caption it with a temporal word to build a shared class mural in order.