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1 First Grade Investigations: Correlation with Investigations Topics and Benchmarks Unit 1: How Many of Each? Count a set of up to 20 objects Activities: 1-15 Compare and order quantities up to 12 Book One: Chapter 3 Activities: 1-8 Combine two small quantities Activities: 1-5, 9, 10, 11 Activities: 1-12 Interpret (retell the action and sequence) and solve addition story problems Find more than one combination of two addends for a number up to 10 Activity: 12 Activities: 1-5, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 13 Activities: Book One: Chapter 3 Activities: Activities: Activities: Activity: 18 Activities: 19, 20, 22, 23, 25, 26 Activities: Assessment 1: Counting Objects Assessment 2: Changing Number Unit 2: Making Shapes and Designing Quilts Fill a given region in different ways with a variety of shapes Use geometric language to describe and identify important features of familiar 2-D objects Filling Spaces pp Geometry Walk pp Describing Shapes and Figures pp Identify and describe triangles Creating Shapes on the Geoboard p 50 Describe and sort 2-D shapes Creating & Sorting Shapes pp Compose and decompose shapes Filling Spaces pp 58-66

2 Unit 3: Solving Story Problems Find at least five combinations of two addends for a number up to 15 Activities: 1-5, 8, 9, 10, 11, 13 help children find 2 addends for a number Combine two small quantities Activities: 1-5, 9-11 Activities: 1-12 Interpret (retell the action & sequence) & solve addition and subtraction story problems Activities: 1-5, 9, 10, 11 Subtract one small quantity from another Activities: 1-6, 8-12 Activities: 6-8 Represent numbers by using equivalent expressions Activity: 9 Activity: 13 Count a set of objects Activities: 1-15 give children practice finding multiple addends for a number Activities: 13, 20, 21, 23, 24, 27 Activities: Activities: 19, 20, 22, 25, 26 Activities: 13-15, 17-26, Activities: Assessment 3: More/Less Trains Assessment 4: Number Arrangements Unit 4: What Would You Rather Be? Sort a group of objects according to a given attribute Creating & Sorting Shapes pp Activities: 38, 39, 40, 41 Represent a set of data with two categories Book One: Chapter 3 Activity: 5 Activity: 26 Interpret a variety of data representations with two categories Describe a set of data, including how many are in each group

3 Unit 5: Fish Lengths and Animal Jumps Demonstrate accurate measuring techniques when measuring a distance with nonstandard or standard units Activities: 31, 36, 41 Unit 6: Number Games and Crayon Puzzles Find at least five Activities: 2-6, 8-13 help children find Activities: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 8-12 help children find Combine two small quantities by at least counting on Activities: 1, 2, 3, 5, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 Book Two, Chapter 2 Activities: 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27 help children find combinations of 10 when 10 is used as the number of the day Activities: 13, 15, 17, 18, 23, 25 help children find all relate to building and seeing 2 small quantities. Over time, children develop the strategy of counting on followed by just knowing Assessment 5: Combination Trains Assessment 6: Hiding Assessment Interpret & solve addition and subtraction story problems Activities: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 9, 10, 11 Activities: 12, 13 Activities: 6, 10 Subtract one small quantity from another Activities 1-6, 8-12 Activities 6-8 Activity: 18 Activity: 20 Activities: 20, 21, 23, 24 Activities: 20, 22, 25, 26

4 Unit 7 Color, Shape and Number Patterns Construct, describe, and extend a repeating pattern Book One: Chapter 2 Activities: 3-9 can be used to meet all the pattern benchmarks depending on the questions the teacher Identify the unit of a repeating pattern asks. Describe how various patterns are alike Book One: Chapter 2 Activities: relate to constructing and extending a repeating pattern. As teachers observe at stations, they can ask children to identify the unit, describe how patterns are alike and ask what comes beyond the visible part of a pattern. Describe what comes several steps beyond the visible part of a repeating pattern Unit 8: Twos Fives, and Tens Identify, read, write and sequence numbers to 105 Book Three: Chapter 1 Activities: Book Three: Chapter 1 Activities: give children experiences in building and writing numbers up to 105 Gain fluency with the Activities: 2-6, 8-13 Activities: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 8-12 used over the year will help children gain fluency with Book Three: Chapter 1 Activities: give children experiences in building and writing numbers to 105 Activities: 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27 Activities: 13, 15, 17, 18, 23, 25 used over the year will help children gain fluency with Assessment 7: Ten Frames

5 Attend to features of 3-D shapes, such as overall size and shape, the number and shape of faces, and the number of corners Unit 9: Blocks and Books Grab Bag Geometry pp Exploring Boxes pp Analyzing Solids Using Boxes pp Matching Lids and Boxes pp 72 Building and Recording Box Structures pp Covering Boxes pp Exploring Blocks pp 83 Sorting Blocks pp Building and Recording Block Structures pp Covering Blocks pp Match a 2-D representation to a 3-D shape or structure Drawing and Analyzing Faces Using Boxes pp Drawing and Analyzing Faces Using Blocks pp

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