BASIC PRODUCTIVITY TOOLS: SPREADSHEETS

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Name: Kacee McEntyre
Grade Level: 1st grade
Content Area: Math
Basic Productivity Tool Used: Graph Club
Standards Addressed: CCGPS.1MD.4
Organize, represent, and interpret data with up to three categories; ask and answer questions about the total
number of data points, how many in each category, and how many more or less are in one category than in
another.
Blooms Level of Critical Thinking:
Remembering Understanding Applying Analyzing Evaluating Creating
Description of how to implement in the class: The teacher will introduce the activity by modeling how to
collect data, add the information into Graph Club, and then analyze the information using a variety of graph
formats- line, bar, picture, and circle. As the students enter the classroom, they will be asked to move a
graphic of their favorite animal onto a data collect graph designed using ActivInspire software. Once the
class has added their choice to the graph, the teacher will lead a discussion to determine the number of
choices made for each animal.

The teacher will then lead the students through the steps of creating a graph using Graph Club. A title,
images representing the carious animals and specific colors assigned to each animal will be added to the
graph. Once the data has been entered, the teacher will support the students as they explore the various
graph formats that are available within Graph Club.

While exploring the various graphs, the teacher will prompt students to analyze the information provided in
the graph using appropriate math terms such as greater than, less than, most, least and equal. Statements
will be added to the writing component of Graph Club where various statements will be listed.

The teacher will then challenge the students analysis of the graph using similar question formats: How
many more students liked dogs than cats? How many students picked turtles and dogs? How many
students were polled?
Level of Technology Implementation (LoTi): This activity remains as a level 2 until the students are
allowed to graph information on their own. To move to a level 3 and possibly to a level 4, students will be
encouraged to collect information, graph the data and then analyze the results. Students could also add
questions in the writing window to give other students the opportunity to analyze the graphs. The graph
information could be printed and hung outside the classroom to challenge other students in the school to
review the graph and determine the answer to the questions.

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BASIC PRODUCTIVITY TOOLS: SPREADSHEETS

Description of the sample spreadsheet and graph/chart provided *:The graph displays the data collected
as students selected their favorite animal. The final graphs can be used to analyze the data provided.
Students discuss math concepts, such as more, less, equal, the most, the lease, the total, etc.
Other comments about your proposed spreadsheet/graph/chart activity: The Graph Club activity can
easily be extended to support higher level of thinking and higher LoTi level. This activity was at an
introductory level. The teacher will be encouraged to help students collect graph, analyze and evaluate
other data items.

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