Grade 1 Curriculum

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Important: this is a guide only.
Check with your local education authority to find out their requirements.

Grade 1 | Counting
☐ Count the items in a collection and know the last counting word tells how many items are in the collection (1 to 100)
☐ Counting Bugs
☐ Finding Bugs
☐ Counting
☐ Write numbers to 100
☐ Counting: Number Names to 100
☐ Fill in The Missing Numbers
☐ Counting
☐ Activity: Make a Number Chart
☐ Read the number words one, two, three to ten
☐ Counting: Number Names to 100
☐ Cardinal, Ordinal and Nominal Numbers
☐ Counting
☐ Name the number before and the number after a given number, and name the number(s) between two given numbers up to 100 (with and without the use of a number line or a hundreds chart)
☐ Counting: Number Names to 100
☐ Counting
☐ Cardinal, Ordinal and Nominal Numbers
☐ Scrolling Number Line
☐ Use before, after, or between to order numbers to 100 (with or without the use of a number line)
☐ Ordering Game
☐ Ordering Numbers
☐ Scrolling Number Line
☐ Use the words higher, lower, greater, and less to compare two numbers
☐ Comparing Numbers
☐ Compare Numbers to 10
☐ Compare Numbers to 100
☐ Compare Numbers: -10 to +10
☐ Use and understand verbal ordinal terms, first to twentieth
☐ Definition of Ordinal Number
☐ Cardinal, Ordinal and Nominal Numbers
☐ Quickly see and label with a number, collections of 1 to 10
☐ Number Block Puzzles
☐ Number Blocks Freeplay
☐ Count by 1's to 100
☐ Counting: Number Names to 100
☐ Fill in The Missing Numbers
☐ Colorable Number Chart
☐ Counting
☐ Skip count by 10's to 100
☐ Skip Counting by 10
☐ Skip Counting by 10
☐ Colorable Number Chart
☐ Skip Counting
☐ Skip Counting Game
☐ Skip count by 5's to 50
☐ Skip Counting by 5
☐ Colorable Number Chart
☐ Skip Counting
☐ Skip Counting Game
☐ Skip count by 2's to 20
☐ Skip Counting by 2
☐ Colorable Number Chart
☐ Skip Counting
☐ Skip Counting Game
☐ Verbally count from a number other than one by 1's
☐ Skip Counting
☐ Cardinal, Ordinal and Nominal Numbers
☐ Count backwards from 20 by 1's
☐ Colorable Number Chart
☐ Skip Counting Backwards (20 to 1)
☐ Skip Counting
☐ Skip count multiples of 10 by 10's to 1,000
☐ Skip Counting by 10
☐ Skip Counting by 10
☐ Skip Counting
☐ Skip Counting Game
Grade 1 | Addition
☐ Understand the commutative property of addition
☐ Commutative, Associative and Distributive Laws
☐ Addition
☐ Definition of Commutative Law
☐ Smart Blocks
☐ Addition Table
☐ Activity: Commutative, Associative and Distributive
☐ Develop and use strategies to solve addition word problems
☐ Word Questions - General Elementary
☐ Word Questions - Elementary Addition
☐ Word Questions
☐ Represent addition word problems and their solutions as number sentences
☐ Word Questions - General Elementary
☐ Word Questions - Elementary Addition
☐ Word Questions
☐ Use a variety of strategies to solve addition problems with one and two-digit numbers without regrouping
☐ Math Trainer - Addition
☐ Addition Worksheets
☐ Addition
☐ Addition in Columns
☐ Flipping Discs Puzzle
☐ Demonstrate fluency and apply addition facts to and including 10
☐ Math Match Game
☐ Reaction Math
☐ Yacht
☐ What Makes 10
☐ Addition
☐ Addition Table
☐ Math Trainer - Addition
☐ Number Block Puzzles
☐ Number Blocks Freeplay
☐ Addition Worksheets
☐ Flipping Discs Puzzle
☐ Test your Maths
☐ Understand that different parts can be added to get the same whole
☐ What Makes 10
☐ Number Block Puzzles
☐ Number Blocks Freeplay
☐ Addition Table
☐ Flipping Discs Puzzle
Grade 1 | Subtraction
☐ Develop and use strategies to solve subtraction word problems
☐ Word Questions - Elementary Subtraction
☐ Word Questions
☐ Word Questions - General Elementary
☐ Represent subtraction word problems and their solutions as number sentences
☐ Word Questions - Elementary Subtraction
☐ Word Questions
☐ Word Questions - General Elementary
☐ Use a variety of strategies to solve subtraction problems with one and two-digit numbers without regrouping
☐ Math Trainer - Subtraction
☐ Subtraction
☐ Subtraction Worksheets
☐ Test your Maths
☐ Fix the Equation
☐ Demonstrate fluency and apply subtraction facts to and including 10
☐ Reaction Math
☐ Math Trainer - Subtraction
☐ Subtraction
☐ Subtraction Worksheets
☐ Test your Maths
☐ Quick Subtraction
☐ Fix the Equation
Grade 1 | Numbers
☐ Arrange objects in size order (increasing and decreasing)
☐ Ordering Game
☐ Definition of Ascending Order
☐ Definition of Descending Order
☐ Ordering Numbers
☐ Compare and order whole numbers up to 20
☐ Compare Numbers to 10
☐ Comparing Numbers
☐ In Order
☐ Ordering Game
☐ Definition of Ordering
☐ Ordering Numbers
☐ Compare Numbers to 100
☐ Activity: Make a Number Chart
☐ Use a variety of strategies to compose and decompose one-digit numbers
☐ Number Block Puzzles
☐ Number Blocks Freeplay
☐ Recognize the difference between numbers, numerals and digits.
☐ Numbers, Numerals and Digits
Grade 1 | Measurement
☐ Recognize length as an attribute that can be measured
☐ Definition of Ruler
☐ Activity: Discover Lengths
☐ Activity: Personal Measures
☐ Select and use non-standard units to estimate measurements
☐ Definition of Estimate
☐ Activity: Compare Lengths
☐ Definition of Estimation
☐ Use non-standard units (including finger lengths, paper clips, students' feet and paces) to measure both vertical and horizontal lengths
☐ Activity: Compare Lengths
☐ Definition of Vertical
☐ Definition of Horizontal
☐ Activity: Personal Measures
☐ Informally explore the standard metric unit of measure (meter)
☐ Metric Length
☐ Activity: Discover Lengths
☐ Activity: Personal Measures
☐ Informally explore the US standard unit of measure (foot)
☐ US Standard Lengths
☐ Activity: Personal Measures
☐ Activity: Discover Lengths
Grade 1 | Time
☐ Classify months and connect to seasons and other events
☐ 12-Month Calendar
☐ Months
☐ The Seasons
☐ Years
☐ Definition of Month
☐ Definition of Calendar
☐ Introduction to Days, Weeks, Months and Years
☐ Earth's Orbit and Daylight
☐ Recognize specific times (morning, noon, afternoon, evening)
☐ Sun Clock
☐ A Day ...
☐ Introduction to Days, Weeks, Months and Years
☐ World Time Zones
☐ Tell time to the hour, using both digital and analog clocks
☐ Clocks - Digital and Analog
☐ Analog and Digital Clocks Animation
☐ Time Worksheets
☐ Date and Time Clock
☐ Know the days of the week and months of the year in sequence
☐ Day of the Week you were Born
☐ A Day ...
☐ Introduction to Days, Weeks, Months and Years
☐ Months
☐ Weeks
☐ Years
☐ 12-Month Calendar
Grade 1 | Geometry (Plane)
☐ Match shapes and parts of shapes to justify congruency
☐ Math Match Game
☐ Concentration Memory Game.
☐ Experiment with slides, flips, and turns of two-dimensional shapes
☐ Shapes Freeplay
☐ Definition of Slide
☐ Definition of Flip
☐ Definition of Turn
☐ Congruent
☐ Pentomino Puzzle
☐ Pentomino Challenge
☐ Identify symmetry in two-dimensional shapes
☐ Shapes Freeplay
☐ Symmetry Artist
☐ Point Symmetry
☐ Reflection Symmetry
☐ Rotational Symmetry
☐ Lines of Symmetry of Plane Shapes
☐ Activity: Symmetry of Shapes
☐ Activity: Make a Mandala
☐ Recognize, name, describe, create, sort, and compare two-dimensional shapes
☐ Shapes Freeplay
☐ Math Match Game
☐ 2D Shapes - Polygons and More
☐ Concentration Memory Game.
☐ Activity: Sorting Shapes
☐ Direction: Up, Down, Left, Right
☐ Mazes
☐ Definition of Direction
☐ Direction (NSEW)
☐ Cubilus Game
☐ Knights Move Challenge
Grade 1 | Geometry (Solid)
☐ Recognize, name, describe, create, sort, and compare three-dimensional shapes
☐ Definition of Cube
☐ Definition of Box
☐ Definition of Prism
☐ Definition of Cylinder
☐ Definition of Cone
☐ Definition of Sphere
☐ Recognize geometric shapes and structures in the environment
☐ 2D Shapes - Polygons and More
☐ Number Block Puzzles
☐ Shapes Freeplay
☐ Pattern Match - Shapes
Grade 1 | Pre-Algebra
☐ Determine and discuss patterns in arithmetic (what comes next in a repeating pattern, using numbers or objects)
☐ Pattern Match - Numbers
☐ Patterns
☐ Definition of Number Pattern
☐ Colorable Number Chart
☐ Pattern Match - Shapes
☐ Pattern Match - Colors
Grade 1 | Data
☐ Pose questions about themselves and their surroundings
☐ Activity: Asking Questions
☐ Collect and record data related to a question
☐ Activity: Counting Cars
☐ Activity: Most Loved Pet
☐ Tally Marks
☐ Display data in bar graphs using concrete objects with intervals of one
☐ Bar Graphs
☐ Make a Bar Graph
☐ Data Graphs (Bar, Line, Pie)
☐ Interpret data in terms of the words: most, least, greater than, less than, or equal to
☐ Introduction to Inequalities
☐ Definition of Less Than
☐ Definition of Greater Than
☐ Answer simple questions related to data displayed in pictographs (e.g., Category with most? How many more in one category compared with another? How many altogether in two categories?)
☐ Pictographs
Grade 1 | Estimation
☐ Estimate the number in a collection to 50 and then compare by counting the actual items in the collection
☐ Estimation Games
☐ Visual Estimation
☐ Definition of Estimation
☐ Definition of Estimate
Grade 1 | Probability
☐ Discuss conclusions and make predictions in terms of the words likely and unlikely
☐ Probability Line
☐ The Spinner - Your Decision Maker
Grade 1 | Money
☐ Know and recognize coins
☐ Money Master
☐ Currencies of the World
☐ Recognize the cent notation.
☐ Money Master
☐ Currencies of the World
☐ Activity: Counting Coins
☐ Use different combinations of coins to make money amounts up to 25 cents
☐ Money Master
☐ Currencies of the World
☐ Activity: Counting Coins