Here children color stars and individually place them into a class “favorite color” graph

Subject(s): Math Grades(s): Grades PreK-1

Title – Graphing Stars

By – Valerie Nickel

Primary Subject – Math

Grade Level – 1

Topic:

Math – Graphing

Texas Essential Knowledge & Skills Math Grade 1 Standards:

(B) use organized data to construct real object graphs, picture graphs, and bar-type graphs.

Objective (purpose):

Students will be able to create a graph.
Using the graph that they created they will be able to recognize relationships between the chart and the numbers represented.

Materials:

Introduction:

Teacher will call on a few students and ask them their favorite color.
Teacher will ask students if they think all of the students in the class like the same color.
Ask students if they know a way that we can show how many people like each color — “a graph.”

Explanation/Modeling:

Method of Explanation:

Call students to the carpet (front of the room).
Have all students who chose “blue” stand up and put their star in the chart.
Go through each color and have the students put their star in vertical rows on the chart, creating a graph.
As a class count the number of stars in each row and write the number on the board.
Explain to the class that we can use a graph to compare numbers.

Learning Activities/Reinforcement and individual assessment:

Ask students questions about the numbers of stars.
Example:
- Which color did the most people like?
- Which color did the least people like?
- How many more people like BLUE than GREEN?
- How many people liked PURPLE and RED (change colors to fit data collected)?

Closure:

Go over what a graph is and what other kinds of information the students could put in a graph — favorite ice cream flavors, pizza toppings, etc.

Relevancy:

Students need to be able to collect information and create a visual of it.
They need to be able to present data in an organized manner. This skill will help them in future classes and beyond.