Curriculum Guides

Grade Level: Kindergarten

Content Area: Statistics

Skills: Graphing: more/less

Prerequisites:

Instructional Practices: Problem Solving, Reasoning and Connections to the World

Materials Needed: Poster board, clothespins with students names on them.

Technology:

Activity: Make a small graph with thirty equal lines drawn across about a ten inch wide poster board.(leaving room at the top of graph to draw two small pictures) Draw a lunch tray on the upper left hand side and a lunch box on the upper right hand side of the graph. Each morning have students put his/her clothespin under the picture that shows whether or not he/she will eat a tray lunch or a box lunch. Ask if there are more or less students eating a tray lunch then there are lunch box lunches. This also lets the teacher see who is absent and gives a class lunch report.

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