Graphing
The students will be collecting, organizing, and representing data with up to three categories using t-charts, tallies, and picture graphs.
Essential Question
What are some ways you can represent data? How can you organize it?
Grade(s):
- 1
Subject(s):
Recommended Technology:
-Computer
-Smart Board
-Document Camera
Other Instructional Materials or Notes:
- Graphing Worksheet
- Pencil
- Paper
- Crayons/Colored Pencils
Lesson Progression
- Students will begin the lesson on the carpet. The teacher will explain that they will be learning about how to collect, organize, and represent data on graphs. The teacher will also discuss how they can draw conclusions from these graphs.
- The teacher and students will come up with three read-aloud’s that they have read over the course of the year so far. Once the teacher and students have chosen three of them, the teacher will ask each student which read-aloud was their favorite. The teacher will collect the data, and as it is collected, place it on a graph using tally marks on the smartboard.
- Once the tallies have been taken, and the graph has been completed, the teacher will ask students the following questions….
- Which read-aloud was liked the most?
- Which read-aloud was liked the least?
- How many students like read-aloud A or read-aloud B?
- How many students were asked which read-aloud was their favorite?
*The teacher will walk through how to go about answering these questions, and how to use the graph that was created.
4. Students will go back to their seats and do a graphing worksheet. Students will be given 15-20 minutes to complete the worksheet. After the time is up, the teacher will go over the worksheet with students.
5. Students will then work in partners to come up with a topic to collect data on. Examples: favorite ice cream… chocolate, strawberry or vanilla? Favorite sport… soccer, basketball or football? Etc. The students will go around and collect data from other students in the class, they will then represent that data in a graph. Students should then answer the following questions using the data from their graphs
What was liked the most
What was liked the least?
Question of choice*
Students should be given 30 or more minutes to complete this.
Each partnership will share their graphs with the class
Teacher Notes
Differentiation: Work with lesser numbers of data points and fewer options. Pull in small groups to remediate as necessary.
Extension: Ask students to find the difference between the number of respondents for vanilla versus strawberry. Give students a data set with a greater number of data points.
Graphing Worksheet
View ResourceOrganizing/Representing Data
View ResourceStandards
- 1.DPSR Data, Probability, and Statistical Reasoning
- 1.DPSR.1 Create and answer survey questions, collect and analyze data, and communicate through multiple representations
- 1.DPSR.1.1 Sort pictures or objects into at least three categories (not to exceed 10 items in each category)
- 1.DPSR.1.2 Create a survey question and collect data with up to three categories. Create charts and graphs with a single unit scale to display the data. Use the graph to draw conclusions. Limit to one-step add-to, take-from, and part-part-whole questio
- 1.DPSR.1 Create and answer survey questions, collect and analyze data, and communicate through multiple representations
Assessments
Students will be assessed through questioning that takes place during the lesson. They will also be assessed through the worksheet, and the graphing activity that they complete with their partners.