Changes in Our Sky:
Grade 1, 3rd Quarter, part 1
In this six week unit, students use fiction and informational stories to encourage mathematical investigations of the changes that occur around us .
OVERVIEW
Building on the development of number sense and problem solving, first grade students will apply these skills to make observations about changes in the sky.
ESSENTIAL QUESTION
How do numbers and problem solving skills help us understand the world around us?
FOCUS STANDARDS
These Focus Standards have been selected for this unit from the Common Core State Standards.
· 1.NBT.2: Understand that the 2 digits of a two-digit number represent amounts of tens and ones.
· 1.NBT.3: Compare 2 two-digit numbers based on meanings of the tens and ones digits, recording the results of comparisons with the symbols >, =, and <.
· 1.NBT.4: Add within 100, including adding a two-digit number and a one-digit number, and adding a two-digit number and a multiple of 10.
· 1.NBT.5: Given a two-digit number, mentally find 10 more or 10 less than the number, without having to count.
· 1.MD.3: Tell and write time by hour and half hour.
· 1.OA.2: Solve word problems that call for addition of 3 whole numbers whose sum is less than or equal to 20.
· 1.OA.6: Add and subtract with 20, demonstrating fluency for addition and subtraction within 10.
SUGGESTED STUDENT OBJECTIVES
· Read and understand two-digit numbers.
· Compare (greater than, less than, equal to) 2 two-digit numbers.
· Add 2 two-digit numbers (less than 100).
· Mentally find 10 more/less than a two-digit number.
· Add 3 whole numbers whose sum is less than/equal to 20.
· Add/subtract numbers to 20, with fluency to 10.
SUGGESTED WORKS
LITERARY TEXTS
Stories (Read Aloud)
· Owl at Home(Arnold Lobel)(E)
· Frog and Toad All Year (Arnold Lobel)(EA)
· The Wind Blew (Pat Hutchins)
· Ten Apples Up on Top (Dr. Seuss) (EA)
· Kitten’s First Full Moon (Kevin Henkes)
· I Took the Moon for a Walk (Carolyn Curtis)
· The Season’s of Arnold’s Apple Tree (Gail Gibbons)
Poetry
· “Covers” in The Sun So Quiet (Nikki Giovanni)(E)
· “It Fell in the City” in Blackberry Ink (Eve Merriam)(E)
· “Laughing Boy” in Haiku: The Other World (Richard Wright)(E)
· “Drinking Fountain” in Random House Book of Poetry for Children(Marchette Chute)(E)
Poetry (Read Aloud)
· “Who Has Seen the Wind” in Rossetti; Poems (Everyman’s )(E)
· “The Wind” in A Child’s Book of Verses(Robert Louis Stevenson)
· “Windy Nights” in A Child’s Garden of Verses (Robert Louis Stevenson)
· “Blow, Wind, Blow!” (Traditional)
Stories (Read Aloud)
· The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (Frank L. Baum)(E)
· Twister on Tuesday(Mary Pope Osborne)
INFORMATIONAL TEXTS
Informational Text (Read Aloud)
· The Moon Book (Gail Gibbons)
· Tornadoes (Gail Gibbons) (EA)
· Tornadoes (Seymour Simon)
· Super Storms (Seymour Simon)
· Flash, Crash, Rumble, and Roll (Franklyn M. Bramley and True Kelley)
· How People Learned to Fly (Fran Hodgkins and True Kelley)(E)
· Feeelings (Aliki)(EA)
· Twisters and Other Terrible Storms: A Nonfiction Companion to Twister and Sal Murdocca)(EA)
· What Will the Weather Be? (Let’s-Read-and-Find-Out Book)(Lynda Dewitt and Carolyn Croll)
SAMPLE ACTIVITIES AND ASSESSMENTS
Numbers and Operations
Read What Will the Weather Be? Research weather information and graph weather for the past 100 days. Record and express in hundreds, tens, ones.
Use unifix cubes to represent raindrops. Play “Fill the Rain Barrel”. Roll a die and add cubes to a tens/ones board. Continue to play until student gets to 100. The rain barrel is now full! Students may play independently or with a partner.
Research yearly rainfall in different countries around the world. Record on a graph. Use this information to compare greater than, less than, equal to by looking at place value. Use this same information to add rainfall totals using tens and ones. Ask students to represent their adding with base ten blocks or unifix cubes and number sentences.
Have students solve weather related story problems involving temperature. (ex. If it was 65 degrees and the temperature dropped 10 degrees what would the temperature be?) Ask students to show how they solved each problem using manipulatives, drawings, and number sentences.
Read The Wind Blew . Discuss wind speeds. Make a list of a series of wind speeds on the board. Have students indentify the place value of each numeral and then compare numbers.
Create a Kite Glyph. Top Right Triangle: What living things do you like to see outside? Plants- Orange, Animals- Red Top Left Triangle: Where do you like to play? Inside- Green, Outside- Yellow Bottom Right Triangle: Which animals do you like to see outside? Squirrels- Blue, Birds- Purple Bottom Left Triangle: What treat do you like to eat? Candy- Pink, Popsicles- Light BlueNumber of Bows: My favorite thing to do outside is-Have a picnic=1 bow, Swing=2 bows, Run=3 bows, Ride my bike=4 bows, Play sports=5 bows Tail: One inch for each year old you are. Have students use information to count, compare, graph, etc.
Read The Seasons of Arnold’s Apple Tree. Discuss average temperatures for each season. Ask children to express temperatures in tens and ones. Ask children to order numbers from least to greatest.
Read Ten Apples Up on Top. Have each child draw a self-portrait. Assign each student a number from 10-20. Ask him/her to draw that many apples to the top of their head. Using this information have them pair up with a partner and add their apples. Ask students to show their work by drawing and writing a number sentence.
Have students use white boards and unifix cubes or base ten blocks to solve “apple” story problems (adding/subtracting 2 digit numbers).
Have students solve weather related story problems involving changes in temperature. (ex. If it was 65 degrees and the temperature dropped 10 degrees what would the temperature be?) Ask students to show how they solved each problem using manipulatives, drawings, and number sentences.
Operations and Algebraic Thinking
After reading I Took the Moon for a Walk, complete Illuminations lesson-Macoroni Math-(Use pasta as mini-moons)-The purpose of this activity is to explore the relationship between addition/subtraction. http://illuminations.nctm.org/LessonDetail.aspx?id=U65
Read The Seasons of Arnold’s Apple Tree. Give each student a green piece of construction paper to represent the tree. Give two sided counting discs or two colors of unifix cubes to represent two kinds of apples. Write a number on the board. Have students find all of the different combinations to create that number. Use same materials to add equations with 3 numbers.
Review math facts with Illuminations Lesson-Let’s Learn Those Facts http://illuminations.nctm.org/LessonDetail.aspx?id=U58
Read Frog and Toad all year. Give each student a brown rectangle to represent a log. Have students use unifix cubes or other manipulative to represent frogs. Roll a die three times to generate 3 addends. Have students add these 3 numbers to come up with the sum.
Have children to draw four brown rectangles to represent logs on a piece of paper. Give each child one die. Ask them to roll 3 times to generate 3 sets of frogs. Have them add the 3 numbers using pictures and number sentences.
Measurement and Data
Learn Hickory Dickory Dock. Change times in poem to match student clock face. Adaption for half-hour:
Hickory Dickory Dock The mouse ran up the clock. The clock struck one thirty. The mouse got so dirty! Hickory Dickory Dock
Write a class story “A Day with Frog and Toad”. Have students think of things that they might do at each time (on the hour or half hour) listed during the day. As you read the completed story together, allow students to represent times with individual clocks.
Use times and clock faces from class story to make individual time matching games for each student.
Have students make a weather forecast for the following day. Ask them to divide their forecast into 3 parts of the day. Have student write the time and draw the clock face that shows each time.