BEYOND-THE-BASIC PRODUCTIVITY TOOLS

Name: Mariah Nardone

Grade Level: Second Grade
Content Area: Math
Beyond-the-Basic Productivity Tool Used: Graph Club
Standards Addressed: 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 the information into Graph Club and then analyze the information using a variety of
graph format- 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 ActiveInspire software. Once the class has added their
choice to the graph, the teacher will lead a discussion to determine the number of choice3s made for each sport.
The teacher will 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. Once the data has been entered, the teacher will support
the students as they explore the various graph formats that are variable within the 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.

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 level4, students will be encouraged to collect information, graph the data
and then analyze the results. Students can 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
*: The 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.

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Other comments about your proposed BBPT Activity: The Graph Club activity 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.