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.
September is a great time for data collection activities as students are naturally curious about their new classmates. Ask questions that require students to analyze data and support their conclusions.
Students will record the temperature daily, using a bar graph, color coded bars. this monthly bar graph helps students understand phenology and interpreting graphs.
"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.
This plan uses an online tour of the White House to reinforce the concept of tallying.
Rotating to each station using M&M's, this lesson will allow students to add, graph, sort, and estimate.
Students will create digital, narrative, and drawn versions of a timeline of at least five events of their life.
We are exploring graphs!! Can you Count the items on the graph? We are going to Count the objects and color the number in the graph
Students will collect data, create a graph, and analyze information about the temperatures for a week using Graph Club Software.
This is a lesson which allows students to explore with estimation in cooperative learning groups.
This Cyberchase video features Bianca who uses Venn Diagrams to make a pizza that satisfies the topping preferences of her friends.
In this video segment from Cyberchase, the CyberSquad uses a graph to estimate how much the water level will rise in the Sensible Flats reservoir.
