Bar+Graphs

=Bar Graphs For First Grade = Mallory Violette

Content Standards: 4.1 Collect, organize and display data using appropriate statistical and graphical methods. a. Organize data in tables and graphs and make comparisons of the data.

Lesson Objective: As a result of this lesson students will be able to make a bar graph using collected data.

Assessment: Together as a class we will collect data on how many students play Soccer, Basketball, Baseball or Football. The students will have to show the teacher how they make the graph. The class will then take this data home and complete a bar graph.

Initiation: To begin the lesson teacher will ask the students "How did you get to school today?". The teacher will ask a few students to answer.

Lesson Development: To start the teacher will model for the students taking data. On the chalkboard the teacher will write the four main different ways the children get to school that we discussed. The four different ways are on a bus, walking, in a car or riding a bicycle. The teacher will ask the students who ride the bus to raise their hands and write the number on the board by the word bus. Next the teacher will ask about the walkers, the students who go in a car and the students who ride a bicycle The teacher will tell the students that we will be learning how to represent information in a new way. The teacher will then explain what a bar graph is. A bar graph is a group of bars that represent information. The teacher will explain that we will first need a title for the class graph. The title will be "How We Get To School". Next the teacher will draw a horizontal line connected to a vertical line at one end on a large piece of graph paper. The teacher will explain that on the bottom of the graph we will put the four different ways that we travel to school. On the side of the graph the teacher will put the numbers going up zero to twenty. The class will then draw a bar graph together using the data they collected.

Closure: To close the lesson the teacher will discuss the data they just collected and collect data for the homework lesson. The teacher will ask questions to review and then let them know they will take it home to finish it themselves.