Authors: Tiffany Fascianella & Tammie Donohoe

Grade: 3 Integrated Discipline: Math


Nebraska Standards:

4.5.1 By the end of fourth grade, students will collect, organize, record, and interpret data and describe the findings.

Objectives:
1. To promote inquiry questions.
2. Students will demonstrate data collecting in response to their questions
3. Students will explain their results of organizing/sorting of buttons.

Assessment:
1. Assess understanding of inquiry questions through the students answers.
2. Assess students demonstration of organizing/sorting of buttons.
3. Assess students explanation of their results of organizing/sorting of buttons.

Provision for Special Needs:
    To provide assistance when and if needed

Materials:
• Buttons
• Large white sheets of paper

Procedures:
Anticipatory Set:
1. Ask students what the objects are and what they are used for.
2. Ask students about characteristics of the buttons (similarities and differences).
3. Ask students how they can represent the characteristics of the buttons.
Activity:
1. Give students buttons and ask them to demonstrate how they can represent the characteristics of the buttons.

Closure:
1. Students will explain how they graphed the buttons
2. Ask students questions such as the least and the most.

Reflections:

Tiffany: We put in front of the girls buttons and asked them what they were…what they were used for, etc. There answers were very creative. Ideas such as, decorating your shoes, pants and also just using them for a shirt. Girls really took charge of this lesson and described the many characteristics the buttons had, and that would later be graphed: color, shape, size, holes, and words. At the end of the lesson girls were giving a graph and practiced how they would organize or sort there buttons.