Michelle Lee

Elementary Inclusive Preservice Program Lesson Plan

Lesson title: Birthday pictograph Grade/age level: 1st Date (intended teaching date): Monday 04/07/14

Learning Objective(s)
What do you want students to know, understand, or be able to do as a result of this lesson?

Students will understand that a pictograph is one type of graph. The will know how to collect data and create a pictograph. Focus: I can collect data and create a pictograph.

Evidence for assessment

Where will you look (product, performance, documentation you create, etc.) for signs of student learning? What will you look for? What are your criteria? (examples of statements or actions that would show the particular kinds of understandings, learnings, &/or skills you are after?)

I will look for proper collection of data each student should have gone around to his/her classmates and asked when their birthday was On the graph, they should appropriately color in the birthday month

Rationale
Why are you teaching this lesson? What connections does it have to standards? Does it connect to students interests, strengths, and needs?

Sometimes it is hard to think of a rationale for your lesson when it is simply that it is the next unit in the math curriculum the school is following. I couldnt tell if students were interested in graphing because we had never done it before. I did not know if it was a strength or need of theirs.

Prerequisite Knowledge Not all students start from the same reference point. Even if I am introducing a new
What prior knowledge are unit that most of my students are not experts at, how could you counting on? Will this be to pre-assess or access my students prior knowledge? a problem for any of your students and if so, what will you do?

I have provided a space

Learning Experience
In each section below, specify the sequence of instructional activities. Consider how you will manage materials, bodies, and time. Use small boxes to indicate time.

Starting It

How will you invite students -There into the learning experience?

-Read focus are many types of graphs. We are going to focus on pictographs. Pictographs use pictures or symbols to represent data. You might remember back in February we created a graph using candy hearts. We sorted them by color and graphed how many of each color there were. Today we are going to graph birthdays. But, in order to graph, we need to collect data first. We need to know what month everyone was born in. Collecting data sometimes means we have to go around and ask questions. In this case, we are going to go around to each other and ask What month were you born in? And then we are going to record it on this worksheet. -Dismiss students to table groups. Allow about 10 mins for students to walk around freely, asking and collecting data on their worksheets -Back at rug: Now that we have our data, we can start graphing. While you were collecting data, you may have noticed that some months have more birthdays than other months. A picture graph allows us to see this data visually. Use this next worksheet to color in the pictures, one for each student who has a birthday that month. (Demo) -Dismiss students to table group and will work individually graphing their data.

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Doing It
Outline your sequence of instructional moves including participation structures, materials, intellectual resources, and time allotted. Is there a product or performance you will be expecting students to create?

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Finishing It
How will you bring students to closure with this learning experience and connect it to future learning?

-Whole group: discuss the data. Talk about any observations or trends that they may see
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Accessibility

The fun part of this lesson is that students get to collect their own data. Therefore I

What accessibility and have not set up specific participation expectations. Rather, I encourage students to participation challenges have you taken into account and think of their own ways to collect data and to be sure to get to every one of their how have you addressed classmates. them? (material and human resources, sequence of instruction)

Materials Needed

Data worksheet, picture graph worksheet, coloring material, pencil