Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: What's in a Name: Graphing Lesson
A lesson that teaches students how to create and analyze a graph using the letters of their name. The lesson uses the book Chrysanthemum by Kevin Henkes (not included in the lesson plan) to start the discussion.
Free Reading
Free Reading: Graph the Sounds: Oral Segmentation Activity
A small group activity. Each group receives a Graph the Sound page (link included on site). The teacher holds up a picture and the group must graph each sound they hear when they pronounce the word.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Leo Lionni's Little Blue and Little Yellow
Students will use Leo Lionni's literature and his website to learn about the author, mix primary colors, summarize and rewrite a story, and use graphing skills to determine the classes' favorite color.
Other
Kindergarten lessons.com: Graphing Activities
Graphing activities for preschool and kindergarten include collecting data and organizing it in a variety of ways. There are lots of fun things to do in this area of math and the activities integrate well with science and literacy...
Other
Pre K Pages: Question of the Day Graphing Activities for Preschool, Pre K, and K
A question of the day is a graphing activity that can be used to teach young children in preschool or kindergarten how to collect and organize data in a graphic representation as well as teach them how to analyze the data. This site...
Shodor Education Foundation
Shodor Interactivate: Bar Graph Sorter
An applet allows students to sort shapes into a bar graph by color and shape. The learning resource consists of the activity, instructions, instructor notes, and additional resources.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Let's Graph It!
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart has a week of mini lessons where students create bar graphs and pictographs. Students will collect data using tally marks and analyze graphs with discussion questions. Activotes are used...
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Beach Ball Graphing
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart designed to introduce graphing to Kindergarteners. It goes over concepts from crossing out to count, how to stack bottom to top when graphing and not skipping spaces to making a graph and...
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Introduction to Graphing
[Free Registration/Login Required] In this flipchart students will be introduced to the process of sorting, classifying, and graphing procedures through an interactive series of three activities.
Smithsonian Institution
Smithsonian in Your Classroom: Teaching With Collections [Pdf]
This lesson is great for young learners who like to collect things. It gives you ideas of ways to teach such concepts as classifying, sorting, arranging, multiplying, graphing, and measuring with collections of simple objects.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Jelly Beans Add Up
The lesson will explore counting, sorting, and graphing skills. The lesson provides students an exciting and fun way of exploring and internalizing graphing, sorting, and counting skills. Realistically, the students will discover what...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Yummy Apples!
Students will identify, explore and graph characteristics of several different types of apples.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Kindergarten Graphing
[Free Registration/Login Required] This math flipchart teaches kindergarteners how to place an object/picture on graph and how to interpret the results.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Constant Weight Gain
In this activity, students find information in different types of graphs, organize information to construct graphs, and make predictions based on graphs. They also learn to use the calculator to perform constant operations of addition...
PBS
Pbs Kids Afterschool Adventure!: Operation: All About Us Activity Plan
It's time to stand in the spotlight! During this Afterschool Adventure, children will learn about and practice a variety of math skills as they gather information about their favorite subject-themselves! Children will start out by...
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Daily Opening
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart builds math skills (calendar, counting, place value, money and charts) into the daily morning routine.
University of Cambridge
University of Cambridge: Nrich: A Shapey Network
Sharpen your problem solving and logic skills on this network activity. There is a "Printable Page," link if you want to print it out to help you with your strategy.
University of Cambridge
University of Cambridge: Nrich: Find a Path
Sharpen your problem solving and logic skills on this network activity, Find A Path. There is a "Printable Page," link if you want to print it out to help you with your strategy.
Beacon Learning Center
Beacon Learning Center: All the Parts
The activity investigates bar graphs. Students learn about all the parts of a graph.
Beacon Learning Center
Beacon Learning Center: How It All Stacks Up
The resource examines how to use bar graphs to organize and display data.
Beacon Learning Center
Beacon Learning Center: I Am Special
The activity investigates picture graphs. Learn about Rebecca through picture graphs.
Beacon Learning Center
Beacon Learning Center: Play Ball
An interactive web lesson shows examples of pictographs and challenges students to answer questions about the graphs.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: "Bursting With Math"
Using "Starburst" jelly beans to sort, graph and add.
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Minnehaha Falls: Observing Changes in Nature Through Drawing and Writing
Students will take a nature field trip to practice their observational skills and then communicate their findings through drawing, writing, and sharing.