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Grade:  1st                               Integrated Discipline:  Social Skills and Technology

 

NE Standards:

1.1.1. By the end of first grade, students will recognize, write, and orally express the sequential order of the number system.

1.1.2. By the end of first grade, students will demonstrate ways of representing numbers and compare relations among numbers.

1.2.1. By the end of first grade, students will demonstrate the concepts of addition and subtraction up to 10. 

1.5.1. By the end of first grade, students will collect information about objects and events in their environment.

1.5.2. By the end of first grade, students will organize and display collected information using objects and pictures.

1.5.3. By the end of first grade, students will compare and interpret information from displayed data (more, less, and fewer).

 

Objectives:

-  To make a bar graph of collected data correctly.

-  To hand/fill out a survey correctly.

-  To read the results of the survey accurately.

-  To use the SMART Board correctly.

 

Assessment:

-  Students will make a bar graph of data accurately.

-  Students will hand/fill out surveys correctly.

-  Students will work together to use the SMART Board to make their graph as a class.

 

Provisions for Special Needs:

Help the student fill out the survey and add up the results.  Help the students understand what a bar graph is and help them make it.

 

Materials:

SMART Board

Favorite color surveys

Pencil

 

Procedure:

 

Vocabulary:

SMART Board

Bar Graph

Data

Results

 

Springboard:

 

T:  Ask the students what their favorite color of the rainbow is.  Tell them that they will be making a graph today using technology.

 

S:  Think of their favorite color of the rainbow.

 

Activities:

 

T:  Give each student a survey to fill out and circle his or her favorite color of the rainbow.

 

S:  Circle your favorite color

 

T:  Tell the students they are going to survey other classes too.

 

S:  Go to other classes and ask politely to survey the class.

 

T:  Ask the students to count up the results for each color.

 

S:  Count the results as a class.

 

T:  Start with red and have them count how many students liked red.

 

S:  Count how many students liked red and write that number on the SMART Board.

 

T:  Continue to count each color until they are all done.

 

S:  Count each color

 

T:  Ask the students to make a bar graph as a class on the SMART Board.

 

S:  Make a bar graph using the data collected.

 

Closure:

-  Ask the students which color was the most popular.

-  Ask the students which color was the least popular.

-  Explain to the students how they used math concepts to make the graph and add up the results.

 

Resource:

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Reflection:

The students really enjoyed this activity.  They were very nice and polite about asking others to do the survey.  They worked together well and everyone did their fair share.  They help to explain to one another what a bar graph was and how to make one.  They loved using the SMART Board and all got a chance to use.  When our lesson was over, none of them wanted to stop and that was awesome.  This lesson went very well.

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