Student Teachers' Lesson Plan Guide: MATH-Data Collection For Graphing
Student Teachers' Lesson Plan Guide: MATH-Data Collection For Graphing
2. Essential Question:
A. How can we use information we gather to show others visually what we have
found out about the information we collected?
B. How can data be organized and represented to provide insight into the
relationship between quantities?
3. Objectives
Students will be able to gather data (information) about a given topic and
represent that data in a table or chart.
Students will be able to take information in a chart or table and translate
that information into a graph or other visual way of displaying that
information.
• Introduction
Alright everyone! This week during math we wanted to take a small break
from prodigy in order to teach everyone about graphing!
• Anticipatory Set/Activating Learning Strategies
But What is that? What is graphing?
➢ Any ideas?
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Graphing is when we take information that we know and display it visually,
like in a picture! There are so many different types of graphs that we could
use to display our information but before we can learn about them we need to
gather some “Data”
➢ But what is that? Data is information, or stuff we find out and want to
graph. It could be… People’s choice of favorite ice cream, how tall a
marshmallow tower could be… etc.
• Sequence of Lesson
Day one- Monday
▪ Alright! On Friday we all created marshmallow and toothpick towers
as a challenge activity! And if you remember I went around and
measured to everyone’s tower and then had you write the height on
the board and we created a table like this (teacher models). We call
this a data table as we learned information to a question, in this case
how tall did you make your tower?.
▪ Today as a class we are going to create a few more data tables
together! ( some will be number based, and some will be tally based)
• What special is your favorite?
• Did you eat breakfast?
• How many cinder blocks tall are you?
• Favorite Ice cream?
• How old are you?
• How long do you play video game a night?
• ETC…..
▪ Day Two- Tuesday
• Alright guys. Yesterday we started talking about how to collect
data in order to graph it! Today you will get a chance to get your
own data from our class!
• One by one I will call on students to stand up, and take their data
sheet around the class and collect some data from their
classmates. Students will go clockwise around the room to
everyone in order to get data. (This will be collected in order to
assess if students need more practice with data collection or if
students are ready to move on to graphing the data)
• Closure/Summarizing Strategy:
This lesson will not be formally closed other then the teacher giving clean
up directions as this is a small part of a larger unit on graphing. The
teacher can also comment that now we know how to collect data we can
start graphing on Thursday all the data that we have collected.
• Assessment/Evaluation
Teacher Observation
Collection of data collected.
7. Special Considerations
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• Early Finishers
Early finishers will be encouraged to think up their own question that they
would want to ask the class in order to find out. (similar to enrichment)
• Remediation
These students can receive additional prompting and support from the
teacher/para or can receive additional help during another time.
• Enrichment
Students will be given their own blank data sheet in order to collect data
from friends or at home to their own question!
• Special Accommodations
Preferential seating, Alternative seating, pencil grips, fidgets, brain
breaks,
7. Bibliography
• To establish content integrity and to go beyond the textbooks