The Rainbow Fish

The Rainbow Fish

Marcus Pfister

Academic Objectives:

·  MKN1a: The students will connect numerals to the quantities they represent. Students will count a number of objects to 30.

·  MKD1: Students will pose questions, collect data, organize, and record results using objects, pictures, and picture graphs.

Brilliant Star Objectives:

·  Cognitive/Thinking:

o  Classification: Students will be able to organize given elements into sets according to a specified rule or common attributes.

Readability: 3.3

Essential Question(s):

·  What is a graph and how do we use it?

Activating Strategies:

·  Read the book The Rainbow Fish.

·  Display a teacher-made graph similar to the one student’s will create.

·  Have students identify attributes of the graph.

·  Create chart of attributes identified by students.

Acquisition Lesson Activities:

·  Display a jar of gummy fish.

·  Sort the fish as a class.

·  Create a floor graph using colored circles or beanbags to represent each of the colored gummy fish.

·  Create class graphs using large box graph paper – teacher modeling, students copying.

·  Create a class graph – give each student a white circle to color their favorite color, record on class floor graph chart.

·  Discuss findings of graph.

Extend/Refine Activities:

·  Observation: Students create individual graphs using individual gummy bears/fish packets and record results on graph paper.

·  Inference: Write/Record one sentence about their graph related to the information on each individual’s graph.

·  Inference: Students will pick one other student’s graph to compare to their own and tell one thing that was the same or different about their graph and the other student’s graph.

Resources:

·  Student Graph paper samples: http://www.allaboutspace.com/math/graphs/graphpaper/

·  Graphing activities: http://www.zoomschool.com/math/graphs/worksheets.shtml

·  Varying Types of Graphs: http://www.zoomschool.com/math/graphs/bargraph/

·  Sort/Graphing Activities: http://www.zoomwhales.com/math/

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