1st Grade

1st Grade

5 Seasons

There are 5 units - each with 5 video lessons and accompanying written teaching materials.
Each video lesson is around 10minutes long with an embedded activity - allow 20minutes in total.

1st Grade
  • Overview Grid

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    Units 1 - 5 for K-1st. Kindergarten and 1st Grade have identical video lessons until Summer 2022. Bonus lessons are different. A new set of 5 video lessons will be released at this time.

  • Robots Come in All Shapes, Sizes, and Wires

    Episode 1

    There's a new robot on the block ... In this lesson, Dave and Boris explore diversity and how to enlarge our perspective and empathize with others, even when those robots look different from our robots.

    Materials Required: pencil, paper, and scissors (colored pencils, markers, and craft items op...

  • Boris Is Lost

    Episode 2

    Boris gets lost ... Dave and Boris talk about how to identify with people’s stories, especially impactful stories, where people almost get lost! Dave models empathy with Boris's emotions. He shows children how to love others well by putting yourself in their shoes and by concentration and lending...

  • Focusing Your Kindness

    Episode 3

    Boris tries to focus ... really hard. Dave, Boris, and Professor LoCascio discuss the brain and its inability to multitask. You can only focus on one thing at once. At the beginning of the episode Dave struggles to focus on anything other than his own problems. Eventually Boris helps shift Dave's...

  • Classroom Activity

    7.26 MB

    Click to download. This PDF includes a lesson plan and accompanying resources.

  • Classroom Activity

    125 MB

    Click to download. This PDF includes a lesson plan and accompanying resources.

  • Classroom Activity

    4.35 MB

    Click to download. This PDF includes a lesson plan and accompanying resources.

  • Self Assessment

    2.14 MB

    Self assessment worksheet