Name: Michelle Minkert

Grade Level: First Grade

Content Area: Math
BASIC PRODUCTIVITY TOOLS: SPREADSHEETS
Basic Productivity Tool Used: Graph Club
Standards Addressed: CCGPS. 1. MD. 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
As the lesson is extended and students collect their own data, the Blooms level will
extend into the higher thinking levels.
Description of how to implement in the class: The teacher will intro duce 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 season 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 season.
The teacher will then lead the students through the steps of creating a graph using
Graph Club. A title, images representing the various seasons and specific color
assigned to each season 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. (Extension activity- The
teacher can challenge the students analysis of the graph using the following
question formats: How many more students liked Summer than Winter? How many
people participated in poll all together? How many students picked Spring and Fall?)