Lesson Plan : Gathering and Using Data
Teacher Name: | J. Cafasso |
Grade: | Grade 3 |
Subject: | Math |
Topic: | Graphing |
Content: | graph, chart, data, tally chart, frequency table, tally marks |
Goals: | The students will be able to gather data using a survey, organize and compile that data into both a tally chart and a frequency table, and use that information to make a bar graph and/or a circle graph. |
Objectives: | Students will: 1. Organize information into a graph forms. 2. Understand the type of graph that helps them best explain data that they are presenting. |
Materials: | paper and pencil, other students to survey, computer access |
Introduction: | Ask students what their favorite store is: Gamestop, Best Buy, or Target. Tally responses. Discuss the tally marks and what they mean/represent. |
Development: | Take the information from the tallys and make a t-chart for the students. Show the tallies. Next to that chart, construct a Frequency Table, changing the tallies into numbers. Take the Frequency table and create a bar graph, explaining the X and Y axis, titles, numbering, etc. |
Practice: | Give the students a slip of paper with a topic and three choices on it to survey their peers with. Ex: Favorite Football Team, Steelers, Patriots, or Cowboys. Survey the class and gather the information onto their own tallyl chart. |
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Checking For Understanding: | Bar graph will have a title, an X and Y axis and information will be correctly marked on the bars (will correspond to the numbers on the frequency table.) |
Closure: | Share the information gained from the student's surveys on their bar graphs with the rest of the class - OR - work in pairs and one student shows and explains their graph to the other, then vice versa. |
Evaluation: | Student will be able to repeat the process with a different survey question from start to finish, with little to no intervention from the teacher. |
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