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Lesson Plan Title:  Skittle Graphing

Author: April Harvey, Katie Law

Grade: 2nd and 3rd

Integrated Discipline: Math

NE Standards: 

4.5.1 By the end of fourth grade, students will collect, organize, record, and interpret data and describe the finding

Objectives:

·        To sort their candy skittles into groups of the same color.

·        To label a graph with the color of skittles and amounts of each color.

·        To read the graphs and graphs of their neighbors to compare and who has the greatest and least of each color.

 Assessment:

·        Students will sort their candy skittles into groups of the same color.

·        Students will label a graph with appropriate titles of colors and amounts.

·        Students will read the graph to the teachers and compare with their neighbors who has the greatest and least of each color.

Provision for special needs:  We will help any students who cannot graph, and accommodate the food we use to graph in case of any medical needs.

Materials:

Graph Paper

Skittles

Pens

Markers

Procedures:

Springboard (Anticipatory Set): Pass out the candy and explain the activity they are doing.  Talk about what graphing is and what it is used for.

T: Pass out the candy and the graphing paper.

S: Open the candy and sort out the colors.

S: Label their graph paper with the appropriate titles and colors of the candy.

S: Fill out the graph with markers.

S: Compare with neighbors and talk about who has greatest and least of each color.

S: Eat the candy or take it home.

Closure:  Talk about the graph and compare with each student in the class each color.  Who had the most?  Who had the least?  Talk about other times you would graph and what the purpose is of graphing.

Reflection:  We only had four girls attend this class session.  It went pretty good and they all enjoyed the candy hearts they got to take home with them.  All but one girl understood how to graph until we reminded her how to.  She then remembered and fully participated in the activity.  I wouldn’t change anything about this lesson because it measured what they knew about graphing, counting, and their math facts.