Graphing Lesson Plan

Third Grade

Kim Knox

 

 

 

Goals & Objectives

         Illinois State Goal #10: Collect, organize and analyze data using

                  statistical methods; predict results; and interpret

                  uncertainty using concepts of probability.

 

         Learning Standard: 10.B.2b Collect, organize and display data

using tables, charts, bar graphs, line graphs, circle graphs,

line plots and stem-and-leaf graphs.

 

         District #709 Objective: 10B.437 Organize data by making a bar

graph

 

         District #709 Objective: 10B.230 Collect and record information

 

 

Length of Lesson

·      2 class periods (Day 1: 50-60 minutes; Day 2: 30 minutes in the computer lab)

 

Materials

     (Day 1)                                                   

·      Small M & M bags

·      Graphing paper

·      Crayons, markers, or colored pencils

·      Pencils

·      Teacher computer & LCD projector

·      Color printer

 

(Day 2)

·      Computer for each student

·      Colored printer

        

Procedure

 

Day 1:

 

1.     I will ask the students if they know of anyway that information can be displayed.

2.    I will then show the students different examples of bar graphs and pie charts using the LCD projector that is hooked to my teacher computer. http://www.sd76.ab.ca/curlinks/graphing/Types%20of%20graphs/TypesDataPg1.htm

3.    Using the examples on the LCD projector, we will discuss all the important parts of a graph (title, x axis, and y axis).

4.    We will also discuss the differences between bar graphs and pie charts.

5.    I will explain that today we will be creating our own bar graph on paper and the following day we will take that information and create a bar graph and a pie chart on the computer.

6.    I will pass out a small bag of M & M’s to each student.

7.    I will have the students open their bag and sort the M & M’s by color.

8.    Next, using the graph paper that I will pass out to each individual, the students will record the information they obtained from sorting the different colors of M & M’s.

9.    Students will use crayons, markers, or colored pencils to color in the bars of their graph. I will explain that the bars can be colored side by side or there can be a space between the bars.

10. After all students are done coloring in the bars of their bar graph, we will discuss possible titles for our graph. Each student will record a title for his/her graph.

11.  I will also instruct the students to record the color names along the x axis and record the numbers along the y axis.

12. Next, within groups of 4, students will combine their information and create a new group graph for their M & M’s using a new piece of graph paper.

13. After discussing the results of the group graphs, we will create a classroom bar graph for all the different M & M’s in the classroom. This will be done on the LCD projector using this site: http://nces.ed.gov/nceskids/Graphing/ This site will be used the following day in the computer lab. This will be a good demonstration on how the program/site works. I will print this graph out and display it in the classroom.

14. After discussing what the students learned about graphs, they can eat their M & M’s.

 

Day 2:

1.     Students will be at individual student computers in the computer lab and go to the site: http://nces.ed.gov/nceskids/Graphing/

2.    Using the LCD projector in the computer lab, I will guide the students step by step when entering their information into this site to create a bar graph.

3.    After each student has printed his/her bar graph, we will start over to create a pie chart with this same information. This will be a great way to compare two different charts with the same information.

 

Evaluation

I will compare the bar graph that each the student made by hand to the bar graph made on the computer.

 

 

**This lesson will be used in conjunction with a unit on chocolate that we do each year.**

 

 

Resources

 

http://www.sd76.ab.ca/curlinks/graphing/Types%20of%20graphs/TypesDataPg1.htm

http://nces.ed.gov/nceskids/Graphing/

http://www.eduref.org/cgi-bin/printlessons.cgi/Virtual/Lessons/Mathematics/Probability/PRB0005.html

http://www.isbe.net/ils/math/word/goal10.doc

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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(Graph Title)

 

Number of M & M’s

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(M & M Colors)