Name: Cassandra OBrienBASIC PRODUCTIVITY TOOLS

Grade Level: First Grade

Content Area: Math
Basic Productivity Tool Used: Graph Club
Standards Addressed: CCGPS.1.MD.4
Organize, represent, and interpret data with up to three categories; ask
and answer questions about the total number of data points, how many in
each category, and how many more or less are in one category than in
another.
Blooms Level of Critical Thinking:
X Remembering X Understanding Applying Analyzing Evaluating Creating
Description of how to implement in the class: The teacher will introduce the
activity by modeling how to collect data, add the information into Graph
Club and then analyze the information using a variety of graph formats-line,
bar, picture, and circle. As the students enter the classroom, they will be
asked to move a graphic of their favorite holiday onto a data collect graph
designed using ActivInspire software. Once the class has added their choice
to the graph, the teacher will lead a discussion to determine the number of
choices made for each holiday.
The teacher will then lead the students through the steps of creating a
graph using Graph Club. A title, images representing the various holidays
and specific colors to each holiday will be added to the graph. Once the
data has been entered, the teacher will support the students as they
explore various graph formats that are available within Graph Club.
While exploring the various graphs, the teacher will prompt students to
analyze the information provided in the graph using appropriate math
terms such as greater than, less than, most, least, and equal. Statements
will be added to the writing component of Graph Club where various
statements will be listed. (Extension activity- The teacher can challenge the
students analysis of the graph using the following question formats: How
many more students like Christmas than Thanksgiving? How many
participated in the poll? How many students picked Valentines day and
Halloween?)
Level of Technology Implementation (LoTi): This activity remains at a level 2
until the students are allowed to graph information on their own. To move
to a level 3 and possibly to a level 4, students will be encouraged to collect
information, graph the data and then analyze the results. Students could
also add questions in the writing window to give other students the
opportunity to analyze the graphs. The graph information could be printed
and hung outside the classroom to challenge other students in the school to
review the graph and determine the answer to the questions.
Description of the sample spreadsheet and graph/chart provided *: The
graph displays the data collected as students selected their favorite
holiday. The final graphs can be used to analyze the data provided.
Students discuss math concepts such as more, less, equal, the most, the
least, the total, etc.
Other comments about your proposed spreadsheet/graph/chart activity: The
Graph Club activity can easily be extended to support higher levels of
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thinking and higher LoTi levels. This activity was at an introductory level.
The teacher will be encouraged to help students collect, graph, analyze,
and evaluate other data items.