Background information:

These lesson plans are meant to be part of a unit on graphing. These lessons are for the start of the unit where students are learning how to graph and the components of it. Later stages would be interpreting graphs and comparative graphs/interpretations. These lessons aim to have a hands on and high student engagement approach through using student’s to problem solve and be involved in real world problems.

This unit focuses on displaying and collecting data. This resource is for a grade two year level standard and has been planned in alignment with the Australian Curriculum level standards and content. The general capabilities range from literacy, critical and creative thinking, numeracy and ICT(ACARA, 2015). This resource can be used for cross curricula activities in math or science as the grade 2 math curriculum states that children at this level should learn how to do graphing, data collection and questioning.

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A picture graph is a lead up to other graphs such as a steam and leaf, pie, bar, line and histogram graph.Students will also need to pose questions and answer them, this will keep them motivated by content which interest them and satisfies their curious minds.  These will be important skills later on in mathematics and science subjects as students need to know how to show data results, pose and answer questions

 

Suggested Timeframe:
This work plan is suggested to be run over two weeks as three lessons per week, this may be changed according to your context.

 

Assessment:
The suggested assessment for this is formative and focuses on a couple work sheets that are based on drawing graphs.  There is no criteria sheet or rubric for these lesson plans, because that would be included in the overall unit plan sequence for a summative assessment piece.