AshleeWong

PS1
December6,2016
Grade: 3

Activity: Graphing 4 Creating Bar Graphs

Goals/Key questions

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information)
Objective (connected to PofS):
GLO Collect, display, and analyze data to solve problems.
SLO Collect first-hand data and organize it using: tally marks, line plots, charts,
and lists
SLO - Construct, label and interpret bar graphs to solve problems
Students will learn how to construct bar graphs, make inferences, and solve
problems.

Pre lesson Considerations

Lesson overview of main ideas to be learned and prelearning required:
Prelearning
- Number sense
- Basic understanding of what a graph looks like
- What tally marks are
- Interpret data in a chart or pictograph to answer questions
- What data is
- Vocabulary: data, chart, list, tally mark, tally chart, line plot, bar graph, title, axis,
scale
- Basic collection and organization
- What a line plot is, how to read it, and how to create one
Main Ideas
- What a bar graph is, how to read it, and how to create one
Materials needed/preset up required/logistical considerations needed
(seating arrangement):
- SMART board +notebook
- Line Plot WS, bar graph WS, I Moustache You A Question WS, 1000 booklet
- Moustaches

Content:

Introductio
n

Activity 1
Voting for
pizza

What is the teacher doing?

Include Key questions, logistics, key concepts that
will be addressed, methods of formative
assessment
Yesterday and Friday we learned how to read bar
graphs, now you will learn how to make one.
Before we make one, what do we need to collect?
Data
What are the 3 ways we can collect data?

What are the

students
doing?

My question for the class: What is your favourite

type of pizza?
- Write some categories on the board from the
class, limit it to 6
- Take a vote to find out the most popular by

Voting for their

favourite pizza

Answering
questions

AshleeWong
PS1
December6,2016
7 min

asking each student individually to vote. write

votes using tallies on worksheet

Transition
consideratio
ns

Now we need to make a bar graph using this data

how? Open slides

Activity 2
Making the
graph
10 min

Activity 3
Explaining
the task I
moustache
you a
question

Now we need to make a bar graph using this data

how? Open slides
- Title
- Axes: labels what goes on the bottom? how?
what goes on the side? what number should I go
up to?
- bars: how do I mark each vote?
Ensure there are no questions.
This activity is called I Moustache You A
Question
You will:
- Come up with a question and choices that you
can ask the class
- You will ask everyone in the class your question
and make a tally of their votes
- Once you have everyones vote you will make a
bar graph of the data you collected
- It is called I Moustache You A Question
because as you survey the class you must hold
your moustache to your face
- We are going to take your picture and put it on
your bar graph
- You will be working in partners, but each partner
will have a copy of the worksheet. Your graphs
will be the same but each partner needs to make
a bar graph.

Telling the
teacher where
to put data and
how it should
look on the
graph
Listening to
instructions
Picking their
partners

**potential issues: There are 22 students in the

class. How can we make sure we survey everyone
and that we do not ask someone our question
twice?
- provide students with a class list so they can
check off each person as they ask
Transition
consideratio
ns

Instruct students to sit next to their partners at a

table
Hand out the worksheets when they get the
sheets they may begin deciding on what question
they want to ask and the choices

Sitting with
partner coming
up with ideas
to make their
bar graphs

AshleeWong
PS1
December6,2016

Activity 4
Surveying
and making
the graph

Conclusion

Tell students I would like to look at their question

and choices before they begin asking the class
and that's when they will get their moustaches.
As students survey each other, take each
students picture for their bar graph. Have these
ready for the next class so they can put them on
their worksheets.
Next class we will analyze their bar graphs and
have the students answer questions about them.

Surveying each
other

Assessment: Are students able to create a bar graph and the elements associated
with a bar graph?
Accommodations/Modifications: partner work
Extension and extra time activity: Line plot WS, bar graph WS, 1000 chart