Mathematics — Grade 1

Body Graphing

"Body Graphing" is an interactive graphing activity involving manipulatives to compare graphing results. With the use of ropes and unifix cubes students will learn to compare and contrast their body with classmates. The graphing activity can be extended to graph differences with height, hair and eye color, and other physical attributes.

Format: lesson plan (grade 1 Mathematics)

By patsy morgan.

Chocolate! Chocolate! Chocolate!

Using chocolate as a theme, students will become involved in reading, writing, math, word study/spelling and other developmentally appropriate (integrated) activities. The unit includes centers for the classroom along with whole group activities.

Format: lesson plan (grade 1 Mathematics)

By Luwonna Oakes.

First class butterflies

This is an integrated unit on raising and releasing Painted Lady butterflies. Students will learn that technology is very useful in obtaining and sharing information about butterflies via the internet.

Format: lesson plan (grade 1 Information Skills, English Language Arts, Social Studies, Computer Technology Skills, Mathematics, and Science)

By Brenda Murray.

Graphing with food

Students will use a variety of foods to make graphs. Each food should be used for a separate lesson for a total of ten lessons.

Format: lesson plan (grade 1 Mathematics)

By Bunnie R. Brewer.

Healthy vs Non-Healthy Foods

Students will use Kidspiration software to classify healthy foods and non-healthy foods during our Food Guide Pyramid unit.

Format: lesson plan (grade 1 Mathematics and Computer Technology Skills)

By Michele Tipton.

Sorting Again and Again!

Students will discover that beans have many attributes and they will sort them accordingly.

Format: lesson plan (grade 1 Mathematics)

By Melanie Kush.

Soup's On!

This lesson integrates children's literature and math. The students will listen to "Stone Soup" by Marcia Brown and bring items from home to make "First Grade Soup." The children will use the items to create a graph and share information about their graphs.

Format: lesson plan (grade 1 Computer Technology Skills and Mathematics)

By Vicki Rivenbark.

Turtles are terrific

This lesson will engage the students in the study of turtle attributes and their habitats. The lesson will integrate science, math, language arts and computer/technology curriculums.

Format: lesson plan (grade 1 English Language Arts, Computer Technology Skills, Mathematics, and Science)

By Lucy Crosby.

What Makes a Dog a Dog

This lesson can be used as a culminating activity to review what students have learned about the parts of a dog (easily adapted to most anything-- plant, fish, sentence, etc.) or as an insight instrument to students' prior knowledge of a subject.

Format: lesson plan (grade 1 Mathematics)

By Teresa Chichester.

Lesson plans on the web

Amazing Attributes: Looking Back and Moving Forward

In this lesson, the last of a nine-part Illuminations unit titled “Amazing Attributes: Sorting and Organizing Objects,” teachers ensure that students have grasped the major concepts in this unit on sorting and organizing. (Learn more)

Format: lesson plan (grade K–2 Mathematics)

Provider: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

Buttons! Buttons!

Students participate in activities in which they focus on connections between mathematics and children's literature. (Learn more)

Format: lesson plan (grade K–2 Mathematics)

Provider: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

Calculating Patterns

Students use an Internet-based calculator that is linked with an interactive “Hundred Chart” to create, extend, and record numerical patterns in different ways. (Learn more)

Format: lesson plan (grade K–2 Mathematics)

Provider: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

Calculating Patterns: Looking Back and Moving Forward

Lesson measures students' ability to create, extend, and interpret patterns in multiple ways. (Learn more)

Format: lesson plan (grade K–2 Mathematics)

Provider: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

Connecting Numbers and Patterns

Accommodates multiple learning styles by having students create patterns using different forms. (Learn more)

Format: lesson plan (grade K–2 Mathematics)

Provider: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

Creating, describing, and analyzing patterns to recognize relationships and make predictions

This three-part example from Illuminations highlights different aspects of students' understanding and use of patterns as they analyze relationships and make predictions, as discussed in the Algebra Standard. (Learn more)

Format: lesson plan (grade K–2 Mathematics)

Provider: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

Eating Patterns

Students sort pictures of food and create patterns. They also analyze a partner's patterns and extend those patterns. (Learn more)

Format: lesson plan (grade K–2 Mathematics)

Provider: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

Favorite Pizza Toppings

Students make a bar graph to display information about their favorite pizza toppings, analyze the results from the graph, and then share their findings with fellow classmates. (Learn more)

Format: lesson plan (grade K–5 Mathematics)

Provider: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

Finding Properties for Sorting

Students sort objects and observe the properties others use for sorting. (Learn more)

Format: lesson plan (grade K–2 Mathematics)

Provider: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

Food Pyramid Power: Looking Back and Moving Forward

Students display their knowledge of properties of objects for sorting and creating patterns. (Learn more)

Format: lesson plan (grade K–2 Mathematics)

Provider: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

Grandma's Button Box

Students have opportunities to identify properties and to sort, classify, organize, and display data. (Learn more)

Format: lesson plan (grade K–2 Mathematics)

Provider: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics