Alberta - Grade 1 Full Year Bundle - Math - Science - Social Studies

NEWLY UPDATED FOR THE 2022 AND 2023 CURRICULUMS! BOTH PDF AND GOOGLE SLIDES VERSIONS INCLUDED!

FULL YEAR BUNDLE - Teaching made easy! This NO PREP - PDF/GOOGLE SLIDES VERSION bundle includes everything you need to teach Math, Science and Social Studies. It covers all the expectations in the Alberta curriculums. Save hours of planning with our easy to print or distribute online bundle!

Check out each of the strands below to learn more about the resources included in this bundle.

Math

Strand 1 - Number (Number Sense)
Concepts that are covered:

• Represent quantities using words, numerals, objects, or pictures.
• Identify a quantity of 0 in familiar situations.
• Count within 100, forward by 1s, starting at any number, according to the counting principles.
• Count backward from 20 to 0 by 1s.
• Skip count to 100, forward by 5s and 10s, starting at 0.
• Skip count to 20, forward by 2s, starting at 0. .
• Partition a set of objects by sharing and grouping.
• Demonstrate conservation of number when sharing or grouping.
• Recognize quantities to 10.
• Investigate equal and unequal quantities, including using a balance model.
• Identify numbers that are one more, two more, one less, and two less than a given number.
• Represent a quantity relative to another, including symbolically.
• Visualize quantities between 10 and 20 as compositions of 10 and another quantity.
• Model addition and subtraction within 20 in various ways, including with a balance.
• Relate addition and subtraction to various contexts involving composition or decomposition of quantity.
• Investigate addition and subtraction strategies.
• Add and subtract within 20.
• Check differences and sums using inverse operations.
• Determine a missing quantity in a sum or difference, within 20, in a variety of ways.
• Express addition and subtraction symbolically.
• Solve problems using addition and subtraction
• Identify patterns in addition and subtraction, including patterns in addition tables.
• Recognize families of related addition and subtraction number facts.
• Recall addition number facts, with addends to 10, and related subtraction number facts.
• Identify one-half in familiar situations.
• Partition an even set of objects into two equal groups, limited to sets of 10 or less.
• Partition a shape or object into two equal pieces.
• Describe one of two equal groups or pieces as one-half.
• Verify that the two halves of one whole group, shape, or object are the same size.

Strand 2 - Patterns and Time

Some of the concepts that are covered:

• Repeating patterns are cycles
• Daily cycles in our lives
• Life cycles of a plant, frog, and butterfly
• Métis Seasonal Cycles – what activities they do in each season
• Lunar/Moon Cycles
• How the Indigenous used Moon Cycles
• Seasonal cycles – what activities we do in each season
• Repeating patterns (different shapes, sizes, colours, orientations)
• A/B/C/D patterns with up to 4 elements
• Describing, extending, comparing and creating repeating patterns
• Translating one repeating pattern into another version using the same pattern
• Creating unique patterns using different A/B/C/D cores
• Pattern Cores
• Describe time as a cycle
• Describe the changes we see in time – day/night, seasons
• Reading a calendar
• Days, weeks, months, and years
• 2 Unit Tests – Patterns and Time
• Answer pages for all activities

Strand 3 - Geometry and Measurement

Some of the concepts that are covered:

• Two-dimensional shapes versus three-dimensional shapes
• Familiar two-dimensional shapes – circles, squares, rectangles, and triangles
• Composing and decomposing two- or three-dimensional composite shapes
• Tangram activities – combining shapes
• Lines of symmetry
• Folding two-dimensional shapes to check for symmetry
• Congruent shapes
• Familiar three-dimensional shapes – cubes, prisms, cylinders, spheres, pyramids, cones
• Comparing the length of 2D shapes
• Label the height, width, and depth of objects
• Use vocabulary – taller, wider, deeper
• Compare and order objects by their length
• Describe distances using appropriate vocabulary
• Compare the area, and capacity of objects
• Order objects according to their area and capacity
• Use a third object to compare objects by length, area, and capacity
• Multiple unit tests

Strand 4 - Statistics

Some of the concepts that are covered:

• Create questions about their wonderings
• Format questions so they can survey their classmates
• Gather data from their classmates
• Perform a survey – yes/no questions
• Using tally charts
• Counting tally marks
• Reading concrete graphs
• Creating concrete graphs
• Reading pictographs
• Creating pictographs from concrete graphs
• Ordering data from greatest to least frequency and least to greatest
• Unit test

Science

Matter: Objects

Some of the concepts that are covered:

• What are objects?
• Different lengths of objects – width, height, and depth
• Activity – comparing the height of different objects
• Scavenger hunt – finding shorter and taller objects than your pencil
• Activity – comparing the width of objects and ordering objects based on their width
• Comparing depths of objects – televisions, vehicles, boxes
• Area of objects
• Scavenger hunt – finding objects with less area and more area than your hand
• Activity – measuring the area of objects using footprints
• Superimposing objects to compare their area
• Activity - Which object has more mass?
• Comparing mass – heavy versus light objects
• Ordering the weight of objects
• Scavenger hunt – finding objects lighter and heavier than your shoe
• Measuring weight/mass experiment – comparing the weight of two objects
• Changing objects – physical changes that only change the look of the object/material
• Bending objects – can the object be bent?
• Activity – bending/folding paper to make a paper airplane
• Twisting objects – can the object be twisted?
• Activity – Making a Twisted Sculpture
• Cutting objects – can the object be cut?
• Activity – how does cutting an object change the object?
• Activity – what tool is best for cutting?
• Stretching objects – what happens to the object?
• Can the object be stretched?
• Experiment – Stretch it out!
• Breaking objects – is the object easily broken?
• Experiment – changing objects: can the object be changed (cut, bent, stretched, twisted, broken)
• Activity – working with clay to make something useful
• Changing objects to make a new texture
• Experiment – creating different textures using sandpaper
• Experiment – different textures of food after changing food objects
• Computer science – making objects by following the coding instructions
• Assignment – making a pencil holder
• Unit Test
• Answer pages for all activities

Energy (Movement)

Some of the concepts that are covered:

• What is movement?
• Describing the position of objects: above, below, next to, beside, near, between
• Describing the movement of objects: up, down, forward, backward, sideways, toward and away
• Writing directions and following directions: up, down, right, left
• Movement pathways – straight, curved, spiral, circular, zig-zag, up and down, back and forth
• Story – Sammy the Squirrel: drawing his movements
• Coding activity – writing coding commands for a movement obstacle course
• Coding activity – robot lawn mower
• Animals and objects that roll
• Activity – will the object roll?
• Experiment – testing whether objects will roll down a slide
• Invention of the wheel
• Activity – making a wheel
• Objects that bounce
• Experiment – testing how bouncy objects are
• Bouncy material: rubber
• Animals and objects that slide
• Experiment – testing if objects will slide on different surfaces
• Smooth versus rough surfaces
• Experiment – friction car ramp
• Activity – will the object roll or slide?
• What is speed?
• Comparing the speed of animals
• Ordering the speeds of vehicles
• Describing changes in speed
• Activity – Speed Detectives
• Game – Red Light, Green Light
• Experiment – Racing Cars
• Unit Test
• Answer pages for all activities

Earth Systems (Seasons)

Some of the concepts that are covered:

• The Sun – source of light and heat
• Life without the Sun
• How the Sun causes seasons
• Experiment – orbiting Earth around the Sun
• 3 seasons in India and Thailand – cold, rainy, dry
• 2 seasons in Africa (dry and rainy seasons)
• Experiment – creating models of rainy and dry seasons
• Seasons – different amounts of heat and light
• Activities we do in each season – summer, fall, winter, spring
• How animals have adapted to seasonal changes
• Plants adapting to changing seasons – falling leaves
• Thicker fur, dormancy of plants, migration and hibernation
• Clothing we wear in each season
• How humans adapt to seasonal change – air conditioners, clothing, furnace
• Non-seasonal activities – indoor arenas, swimming indoors, hockey in the summer
• Activity – making dog booties
• Summer storms – hailstorms, thunderstorms, and tornados
• Summer season - wildfires
• Winter storms – blizzard and ice storm
• Coding activities – following instructions to play dress up
• Coding activities – making a paper snowflake
• Coding activity – drawing a flower
• Seasonal cycles in your life – sports and activities you do at different times of the year
• Taking care of the environment – keeping water clean
• Food from our environment
• How the Indigenous take care of the environment
• Cree First Nation Seasonal Round
• Dene First Nation Seasonal Round
• Metis Seasonal Round
• Unit Test
• Answer pages for all activities

Living Systems - Needs of Living Things

Some of the concepts that are covered:

• Living things versus non-living things
• Living things – plants and animals
• Animals move while plants stay still
• Body parts of humans and other animals
• Describing common characteristics of animals
• Nocturnal versus diurnal animals
• Variations of human characteristics – eye, hair, and skin colour
• Different types of plants – grasses, trees, creepers, climbers, shrubs
• Life processes – breathing, sleeping, growing, eating
• Basic needs of animals
• Basic needs of plants
• Experiment – growing a plant in different environments
• How to care for a pet
• Research – favourite animal
• How humans meet their basic needs – using tools
• How animals meet their basic needs – locomotion
• How living things use the environment to meet their needs
• Plants and animals in forests
• Plants and animals living on the prairies
• Plants and animals living in lakes and rivers
• Plants and animals living on mountains
• What animals eat from the environment
• How animals eat – swallowing whole, tearing, cracking, chewing their food
• Shelters – how animals use their environment to make shelters
• Harmful plants and animals (poison ivy, wild animals)
• Having allergies to plants and animals – shared reading story
• Keeping the environment clean
• Air and water pollution
• Creating a zoo environment for an animal – understanding their basic needs
• Hobbies and jobs working with animals
• Showing respect for living things – how to keep the environment healthy
• Understanding misinformation in movies – animals can’t speak English
• Coding activities – robot zoo worker
• Coding activities – coding an animal maze
• Unit Test
• Answer pages for all activities

Social Studies

1.1 My World: Home, School, and Community

Some of the concepts that are covered:

• What is a community?
• Which communities do you belong to?
• Your local community
• Natural features in your community and at your school
• The environment – the natural features around you
• Natural resources in your community
• Taking care of the environment and your community
• Respecting the natural environment
• Poster Assignment – Keeping the environment clean
• Built features at school and in the community
• Matching activities – built features
• Built features – matching the purpose with the building
• Sorting natural and built features
• Areas in your community – residential, commercial, industrial
• Mapping skills – scale, relative directions
• Making a map of your school, school yard, park
• Urban and rural communities
• Services in your community
• Community needs – hospitals, waste removal, fire department, policing
• Jobs in your community
• Your favourite job
• Differences in your community – languages, food, traditions, clothing
• Foods from different countries
• Speaking different languages
• Roles at home and in school
• Responsibilities at home and at school
• School community – who is in charge (principal)
• Class rules and school rules
• How our behaviour affects others
• How we can help others
• Our changing roles and responsibilities
• Leaders in our communities - principal and mayor
• Activity – Electing a mayor
• Activity – Becoming mayor
• Making decisions for everyone, not ourselves
• Equality versus equity – our needs versus the needs of others
• Activity – modelling equality and equity
• Activities – Word scramble and word search
• Unit Test
• Answer pages for all activities

1.2 Moving Forward With the Past: My Family, My History, and My Community

Some of the concepts that are covered:

• Different types of families
• Extended family
• My family
• Generations
• Differences between generations – technologies
• Practicing reading a family tree
• Writing a family tree
• Learning about aunts, uncles, cousins, and grandparents
• Ordering the births in a family
• Ordering events in a story
• Our own significant life events – weddings, births, moving to a new community, etc.
• Key events in my community
• Celebrations in my community
• History of my community
• First People in your community
• Canada – Indigenous groups
• Immigration to Canada
• Immigrant families
• Chinese families in Canada and Alberta
• German families in Canada and Alberta
• Scottish families in Canada and Alberta
• Learning from other cultures – Bannock
• Francophones in Alberta
• Francophone culture
• Story – Pierre the Francophone from Quebec moves to Alberta
• History of Lacombe – Father Albert Lacombe
• The Railway – the Canadian Pacific Railway and its importance for growing communities in Alberta
• Popular sayings in different languages/cultures
• Women’s rights – Famous Five from Alberta
• History of Calgary – John Glenn
• Foods from other countries and cultures
• Food in your life
• Monuments in your community
• Activities – Word scramble and word search
• Unit Test
• Answer pages for all activities

This is a comprehensive bundle that will save you hours of planning! It has been tested and found effective in helping students achieve the learning goals setup by the Ministry of Education in their math curriculum.

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