Station 5- Observation Graphing
Skills: Students will practice graphing things they observe in the world around them.
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Objectives: Students will use mathematical reasoning to investigate observations as a form of data collection.
Students will graph their observations. |
Materials: morning meeting data, graphing pages, pencils, colored pencils, stickers, markers, crayons, observation ideas
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At This Station Kids Will... take observations from morning meetings over the course of the unit and graph them in a picture graph. These observations include temperature, attendance, lunch count, or anything else you may choose to observe over the course of morning meetings. Students may also choose to graph something they observe about the classroom around them during their station time. This could include colors of shirts of their classmates, hair color, the first letters of their classmates' first names, et cetera. Regardless of what they choose, students will be graphing something they personally observe or something their class has observed over a course of time.
Differentiation: Differentiation is possible in two ways at this station: in the graphing page and in what the students choose (or are encouraged) to graph. Students will have the choice of three, or more if you choose to make more specifically differentiated, graphs with specific details. If students need a bigger challenge then they can choose to make their own observations about the surrounding classroom environment. Students who need more assistance will have prerecorded data from the morning meetings to graph and can focus merely on the graphing aspect.
Formative Assessment: At this station, students should be reading the data from morning meeting or looking around the classroom. You should see students making observations and discussing what they could observe to graph.
Summative Assessment: After the completion of this station, students will turn in their graphs. You should check them for accuracy and student understanding. |
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