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Reading Bar Charts
Help kids understand how to collect data through surveys, organize data in a bar chart, then analyze their findings. There are three different surveys for learners to conduct, a full description of all the parts of a bar chart, and three...
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Data and Probability: What is the Best Snack?
In this math/nutrition instructional activity, the nutritional value of 3 snack foods is recorded on a data chart and represented on a bar graph. Young scholars analyze and compare information, construct data charts and related bar...
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Data Analysis: For Little Learners
Using pictographs, tally charts, and surveys, kids learn all about data analysis and collection. They make surveys, collect data, then construct pictographs and tally charts to organize their information.
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Comparing Data on Graph A and Graph B
Second graders gather and graph data. In this graphing lesson, 2nd graders collect data and graph this information using tally charts, bar graphs, pictographs, or tables. They make predictions about the outcomes.
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Build a Bar Graph
Learners discover how to use bar graphs. They will gather and organize specific data in order to put it into a bar graph. Then they will answer several questions based on the information they have graphed.
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What's Data?
Students get the opportunity to investigate the concept of data collecting. They explore how to tally and read a bar graph. Vocabulary about data is also be included. At the end of the instructional activity, individual students collect...
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Organizing And Reading Data
Students complete three parts of an "Organizning and Reading Data" worksheet. First, they go over the rubric to determine the work will be scored. They organize data by taking tallies, make a pictograph and a bar graph using the data....
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Twelve Days of Christmas--Prediction, Estimation, Addition, Table and Chart
Scholars explore graphing. They will listen to and sing "The Twelve Days of Christmas" and estimate how many gifts were mentioned in the song. Then complete a data chart representing each gift given in the song. They also construct...
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Dynamite Data
Second graders rotate through a variety of stations designed to offer practice in manipulating data. They sort, tally and count items and then create bar graphs, tables, and pie graphs to record their findings.
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Yummy Math
Young mathematicians use bags of Skittles to help them gain practice in graphing and organizing data. They work in pairs, and after they have counted and organized their Skittles, they access a computer program which allows them to print...
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Starting a Restaurant
Through an engaging unit, chefs-in-training will sort and classify data using tally charts. Learners will also create bar graphs to display restaurant data and interpret data from bar graphs using a variety of categories. This is a fun...
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Eye to Eye
Students practice the concept of posing mathematical questions regarding themselves and their surroundings. In this eye to eye lesson, students gather data about eye color from their classmates. Students organize their data in order to...
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Where Do I Fit on the Graph?
Students collect data and create graphs about themselves, their community, and the world around them. They use a variety of methods to organize data, such as stickers, clothespins, name tags, coloring, tally marks, etc.
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Calculating Buttons
Students, after reading "The Button Box" by Margarette S. Reid, analyze real-world data by surveying a sample space. They predict the generalization onto a larger population utilizing calculators and computers. Students total categories,...
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Survey and Tally
Second graders view a model of a survey and tally. In this survey and tally lesson, 2nd graders decide on questions for a survey. Students conduct the survey and tally their results. Students create a tally chart. Students view a...
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Graphing Family Reading Habits
Second graders collect data from their families about their reading habits and graph them. For this graphing family reading habits lesson, 2nd graders interview family members about their reading habits. They then use a graphing computer...
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Math Investigations 2
Young mathematicians practice measuring and graphing skills while working in groups to measure objects found in the classroom. Using their measurements, they create one bar graph displaying the lengths and another displaying the widths.
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Graphic Favorite Breakfast Foods
Second graders graph data based on a class survey of their favorite breakfast foods. For this graphing lesson plan, 2nd graders take a class survey of their favorite breakfast foods. Then they take that data and put it into a computer...
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Graphing Pockets
Second graders explore graphing. They count the number of pockets on their clothes and use Microsoft Excel to enter their data. Students create a class graph displaying their findings.
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Awesome Animals
Students collect data from classmates about their favorite animal. They use the ClarisWorks graphing program to enter data, graph results, and interpret data.
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French Fry Run
Student explore estimation and measurement. In this measurement instructional activity, 2nd graders measure french fries, graph their data, and determine the size of french fries that is the best value. Students practice how to add...
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Graphing Pasta
Students sort and graph various types of pasta. Using pasta construction paper patterns or real pasta, they sort the pasta by color, size, and type, and record the data on a graph.
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One Hundred Hungry Ants
Primaries read the book One Hundred Hungry Ants and solve word problems based on the book. In this word problems lesson plan, students will be able to find the factors of a number by organizing counters into equal rows.