DOES IT WALK, CRAWL OR SWIM?
	Activities	Materials	In Class	Homework	Options
Investigation 1 – Sorting People and Yekttis
Sessions 1 & 2 – Collecting & Representing Data About Ourselves	Guess My Rule, graphing	Chart Paper, Interlocking Cubes, pnecils, crayons or markers	SS 1, Math Folder	SS 2, Family Letter	extra rounds of Guess my Rule, Integrate addition and subtraction into GMR, GMR Questions on SS 2
Session 3 – Working with Two Attributes	GMR 2 rules	Index cards, markers
Sessions 4 & 5 – Looking at Yekttis	Intro and GMR with Yektii cards	large Yektti cards, small Yektti cards (1/ group), Prepared set of Yektti Word cards (1/group)		SS 3	How many Yektii in all?
Session 6 – Introducing Venn Diagrams	Venn diagrams using Yektii cards, sort by 2 rules	prep Diagram A, Diagram B (1/group), sm yektii picture cards, yektii word cards, yarn or string,		SS 4 - Yektii stories	Guess my rule with words,
Investigation 2 – Collections: What Goes Together?
Session 1 & 2 – Exploring Thing Collections	free exploration Thing Collections, classify collections, T Charts, GMR with thing collections, one-circle diagram	thing collections (1/grp), one-circle diagram (1/grp) chart paper, index cards, one-circle diagram on transparency or chart paper		SS 5	GMR 2 rules with things, making classroom collections
Sessions 3 & 4 – Sink and Float	test for floating& record data	thing collections, tubs or basins, large sheets of paper, newspaper		SS 6	see if you can make sinking things float and vice versa; record other attributes like which are heavy/light
Investigation 3 – Animals in the Neighborhood
Session 1 – How Animals Move	brainstorm animals, classify by movement then graph, Venn diagram or table data	chart paper, sticky notes, large sheets of paper 1/grp,	SS 7	SS 8
Sessions 2 & 3 – Representing Data in More Than One Way	devise new question about animals, then sort  into categories and graph new findings	graphs of animal data, chart paper, lg sheets of paper, markers	SS 7		collect more data, repeat classifications in different seasons, invite adult to talk about how neighborhood has changed
Investigation 4 – Scary Things
Session 1 – What Scares Us?	read book, discuss what scares them, classify and graph, Poll family members	"There's a Nightmare in my Closet" by Mercer Mayer, index cards or sticky notes, markers, chart paper, tacks,		SS 9 - collect scary things data from family
Sessions 2 & 3 – Comparing Scary Things Data	org. scary data from family, graph, compare adult data with their own	scary things data from family, graph of scary things, from session 1, chart paper, index cards/sticky notes, half sheets of paper for graph labels, large sheets of paper, markers		SS 10	collect data on how many students were scared of each type of scary thing, and chart