Transforming Access: Grade 1 Science
67 ready-to-teach science lessons designed for ALL learners, including nonspeaking and partially speaking learners. Grade-level content, meaningful access.
Grade-level science, designed for access from the start
Most science curricula assume learners can answer verbally, write independently, and complete traditional worksheets. Transforming Access begins with a different assumption: that a curriculum should work for the learners those assumptions leave out.
Grade 1 Science includes 67 complete lessons across 16 units, covering everything from states of matter and magnets to plants, weather, and engineering design. Every lesson was built for learners who communicate through text-based multimodal AAC, and every lesson keeps the content at grade level. The support changes. The expectations don't.
Every lesson includes five ready-to-use components:
- Teacher Script: a step-by-step guide for delivering the lesson, with discussion points and questions at every level of the scaffolding framework
- Lesson Slides: a visual presentation (PDF) with images, key vocabulary, and reasoning questions that follow the script section by section
- Picture Choice Worksheet: independent practice with image-and-word answer options for every question, offering the most visual support with a low motor demand
- Word Choice Worksheet: independent practice with written-word answer options, offering less visual support while keeping the motor demand low
- Full Framework Worksheet: practice that moves through the levels of the scaffolding framework on one page, mixing answer choices with open questions learners answer through writing, spelling, or their communication system
No special training or AAC experience required. The curriculum works in classrooms, therapy sessions, small groups, homeschool settings, and one-to-one instruction. Lessons can be taught in any order, and most require no materials beyond common household items.
Want to see it first? Several complete lessons are free to preview inside the course.
Get the Full Curriculum
Grant support from The Arc Maryland and the Maryland Developmental Disabilities Council helped fund this work. We believe access shouldn't wait.
Their support lets us unlock all 30 of our first grade physical science and engineering lessons - free for everyone. You can view these as free course samples.
This grant support also allows us to offer the remaining units a reduced price. Future Transforming Access subjects will be priced at their standard rate.
One payment of $299 gives you immediate access to all 37 first grade Life and Earth Science lessons, every worksheet version included, for the school year and beyond.
Since launching in September 2026, Transforming Access has been downloaded by parents and educators in 24 US states, 5 Canadian provinces, and 15 countries. We know you need these materials.
More subjects and grade levels are coming. If you'd like to discuss licensing agreements, please reach out to info@reacheveryvoice.org.
What's inside: 67 lessons, 16 units
Browse the full scope and sequence below. Lessons marked free are complete previews, open them to see exactly how the curriculum works. Teach in any order; you don't need to start with Unit A.
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1Introduction & Teacher Guide
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2A. Shapes & Colors
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3B. Materials
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4C. Comparing
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5D. States of Matter
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6E. Heating & Cooling
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7F. Light & Sound
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8G. Force & Motion
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9H. Animals
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10I. Plants
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11J. Living Things
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12K. Ecosystems
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13L. Earth's Resources
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14M. Human Impacts
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15N. Weather
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16O. Astronomy
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17P. Engineering Practices