DESKTOP BASKETBALL

Students estimated the number of times they could make a basket with a basketball. Students recorded their data on a tally table. Then students created a graph. 

Sabria is using a ruler to measure her graph lines. She is making a picture graph to record her findings.

 
Basket: Blue Trash Can 
Basketball: Balled Up Piece of Paper

THE QUILT

Students read a story about two little old ladies who were twins. The ladies created a quilt by cross-stitching memories from their childhood onto their end of the quilt. They compared their quilt and found that although they experienced the same childhood their pictures   very different.

Students created art based on the same principal and then created a Venn Diagram to compare and contrast their pictures.

Billie and Kailin drew a picture of a house and then used a Venn Diagram to compare and contrast differences. 

A TRIP TO THE ZOO

Students read a story about a class who took a trip to the zoo. The students created a pictograph which represented the animals from the story.  We understand that a pictograph always represents more than one visual image. For example, each elephant on the graph represents two elephants. 

 
Kasim and Jatoria work together to create a pictograph.

THE MAGIC FISH

Students read a story about about the Magic Fish and then took turns drawing 15 fish from the bowl. Students created a picture graph representing how many fish they drew from the bowl.

 
Tiffany is fast at work creating her graph. She has already sorted the various colors of fish she drew from the bowl. She begins by recording her results onto a tally chart. She will use the tally chart to create a picture graph. 

TEACHER RESOURCES

Zoo animals shapes were cut using Ellison Die Cuts. Students glued them directly to a large piece of chart paper.

Magic Fish were cut using mini Ellison Die Cuts. Students used the shapes to trace a fish pattern onto their blank paper to create a picture graph.