Find out how many of your learners take the bus, how many walk, and how many bike with a quick survey. Class members gather data about how each individual gets to school and mark the results on this page in order to create a bar graph.

Concepts

bar graphs, graphs, graphing, back to school, the first day of school

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Additional Tags

graphing, getting to school, back to school, survey, bar graph, math

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Instructional Ideas

• Include this as part of a lesson or unit on transportation
• Have kids walk around and talk with one another in order to gather all the data and then create a class graph together to compare and check results
• Ask pupils to raise hands when you call out each category and have kids fill out the graph along with you
• Complete this graph each day of a week to see how it changes from day to day
• Come up with some sentence frames for students to use when discussing and comparing the data

Classroom Considerations

• Note that the graph only goes up to 16; if more than 16 kids fit into one category, you'll need to extend the graph or come up with another way to mark the results

Pros

• The worksheet will help learners intuitively create bar graphs as they take down data
• Creates opportunities to talk about data, compare results, practice graphing, and cover different methods of transportation
• Easily adaptable to go along with English language development

Cons

• None

Common Core

1.MD.C.4 2.MD.D.10 3.MD.B.3