Cute as a Button/Caps for Sale

 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 demonstrate graphing in response to inquiry.

4.      Students will explain their graph by making inferences.

 Assessment:

1.      Assess understanding of inquiry questions through the students answers.

2.   Assess students demonstration of graphing by the way they represented the data.

3.   Assess students explanation of their analysis of their graph.

 Provision for Special Needs:

 To provide assistance when and if needed

 Materials:

·        Buttons

·        Large white sheets of paper

·        Book: Caps for Sale

·        Colored cut out caps

·        Glue

 Procedures:

Anticipatory Set:

1.      Ask students about characteristics of the buttons (similarities and differences).

2.      Discuss with students how they represented the characteristics of the buttons.

 Activity:

1.      Students will make a graph using their buttons.

2.      Read the book Caps for Sale.

3.      Ask students what the colors of the caps were and how many (counting).

4.      Ask students how we would show how many different colored caps there are.

5.      Each student will take a turn placing a colored cap on the graph as we re-read the story.

 Closure:

1.      Students will explain how they graphed the colored caps

2.      Ask students questions such as the least and the most.

 Reflections:

 Tiffany: We started off with finishing girls graphs. One thing I really noticed was that one of the girls placed the buttons on the wrong side of the graph. Not following graph lines already placed on the paper. Looking back we should have been more specific and not assumed the girls would recognize what those lines meant. Not only did the girls graph buttons but caps from the book…Caps for Sale. Assessing their knowledge of what they are learned about graphing because they told us that graphing helps to sort…color, shape, and how to tell the amount of something. That was the point we were hoping to get across in this lesson.