BEYOND-THE-BASIC PRODUCTIVITY TOOLS

Name: Lauren Bell

Grade Level: First Grade
Content Area: Math
Beyond-the-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:
Remembering 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 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 sport 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 sport.
The teacher will then lead the students through the steps of creating a graph using
Graph Club. A title, images representing the various sports and specific colors
assigned to each sport will be added to the graph. Once the data has been entered,
the teacher will support the students as they explore the 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: What was the most favorite sport? What was the least favorite
sport? What were the two most popular sports? Put the sports in order from least to
greatest.
Level of Technology Implementation (LoTi): This activity remains as 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 BBPT file provided *: This graph displays the data
collected as students selected their favorite sport. 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 BBPT Activity: The Graph Club activity
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can easily be extended to support higher levels of 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.