Designed
By: Virginia Riddle, A. C. Moore Elementary
Grade
Level: First Grade
Subject(s): Math
1)
CORE CURRICULUM OBJECTIVE(S):
Statistics:
Collect
data by counting, measuring, or surveying.
Formulate
questions based on data.
Organize,
record, and communicate data.
Read
and interpret information from tables and graphs to make
comparisons and answer questions.
2)
OVERVIEW:
After
reading the story, "Chicken Licken", from the
Macmillan/McGraw Hill textbook series for first grade,
children will discuss the eggs that chickens lay and how
they are prepared to eat. The teacher will have hardboiled
egg slices and scrambled eggs already prepared for the
children to taste. After tasting the eggs, the children
will graph the egg that they enjoyed the most.
They
will formulate questions with the teacher based on the
data and answer questions the teacher poses about the
data. As a culminating assessment, the teacher will repeat
the activity with the addition of deviled eggs and
determine if the children can prepare their own graphs,
formulate questions, and answer questions.
3)
FOCUS/ESSENTIAL QUESTION(S):
How
do you collect data?
How
do you organize your data?
How
do you tell others what you have found?
Can
you ask others about what you have learned?
4)
TIME FRAME:
One
class period of approximately 40 minutes.
5)
RESOURCES/MATERIALS:
Photograph
of each child
Graph
with two columns
Graph
with three columns (large laminated calendars with the
days cut off can be turned sideways and cut for the number
of columns needed)
Chicken
Licken in the Macmillan/McGraw Hill reading series
Camera
film
Eggs
- boiled, scrambled, deviled
6)
CULMINATING ASSESSMENT:
The
teacher will give each child a blank graph labeled at the
top with a picture of a hardboiled egg slice, a scrambled
egg, and a deviled egg. The children will taste all three
types of eggs. They will then find ten different
classmates and survey them to find out which type they
like the best.
The
children surveyed will sign their name under their choice
on the graph. Each child will then share the results of
his/her graph and formulate questions about it for his/her
classmates. The teacher will ask each child questions
about his/her graph.
How
Do You Like Your Eggs? - Rubric
7)
INSTRUCTIONAL ACTIVITIES:
Take
a photograph of each child in the class (these can be used
throughout the year for a graphing activities). Display a
large 2 column graph headed with drawings of a hardboiled
egg slice and a scrambled egg.
Discuss
the eggs that chickens lay and how they are prepared to
eat with the children.
Show
the children a hardboiled egg and a scrambled egg. Tell
them that they are going to taste the eggs and decide
which way they like them prepared the best. They are then
going to place their pictures under the picture of the one
that they chose on the graph.
Demonstrate
how the data will be displayed by placing the teacher
picture on the graph.
Have
each child sample the eggs and put his/her picture under
the correct label on the graph, starting at the bottom and
working upwards.
After
the students plot pictures on the graph the teacher will
ask essential questions.
Examples:
How
many children like boiled eggs?
How
many boys like scrambled eggs?
How
many children in all tasted the eggs?
Do
more boys or girls like scrambled eggs?
Extensions:
Books:
The
Great Big Beautiful Easter Egg by James Stevenson
Horton
Hatches the Egg by Dr. Seuss
Green
Eggs and Ham by Dr. Seuss
The
Pinkish, Purplish, Bluish Egg by Bill Peet
The
Goose that Laid the Golden Egg by Geoffrey Patterson
Web-Sites:
How
many children are going to visit the prince?
How
many boys are going?
How
many girls are going?
Are
there more boys or girls going?
Are
there less boys or girls going?
How
many teachers are going?
If
the graph were done on another day, would it look the
same way? Why or why not?
