DATE:

6
Learning Area: Mathematics

Grade Level: 3 -

Topic:
Obesity
Learning Outcomes:
Review the definition and purpose of pie chart
Examine the procedure for constructing a circle graph from a given set
of data presented in table.
Compute the values for the parts and the whole of the graph.
Compute exactly what fraction or per cent each item (part) represents
Understand the fraction of a single serve
Able to place data into a pie graph.
Learning Objectives: At the end of the lesson the students should be
able to:
Learning appropriate food portions for a single person per serve
Learning What is healthy food and what is not healthy food
Time

Learning And Teaching

Strategies

Key Teaching Points

Equipment/
Resources

5-10
minutes

Introduction. Teacher
addresses
Whole class
Explain activities of the
lesson.

Address the
activities properly

Show students
the pie graph
and what they
will be
completing in
class

20
minutes

Explain and introduce what Make students

a pie chart is in a
aware of what a pie
mathematics content
chart is and have
them do activities
revolving around
mathematics and
thus do activities
related to
mathematics pie
charts.

Pie graph
handout
Students work
books

10
minutes

Introduce obesity and food

into the lesson plan and
thus get children to create
a pie chart of what they
think is a healthy diet by
creating a chart and
putting all of the relevant
food within the chart for
example; placing fruit and
vegetables, dairy, sweets
ect

Pie chart
handout
Colouring
pencils

Make sure students

are aware of what
a pie chart is and
are also aware of
the consequences
of the food whilst
creating the pie
chart
Make sure students
are creating the pie
chart correctly

10
minutes

Conclusion of the lesson.

Compare students pie
charts and conclude
lesson with a short
discussion

Ask students to
Students
share one thing
completed
that they learnt
pie
about obesity and a chart
way it can be
prevented

Links To ACARA:
Grade 6:

Investigating data representations in the media and discussing what

they illustrate and the messages the people who created them might
want to convey
Identifying potentially misleading data representations in the media,
such as graphs with broken axes or non-linear scales, graphics not
drawn to scale, data not related to the population about which the claims
are made, and pie charts in which the whole pie does not represent the
entire population about which the claims are made

Grade 3

Identify questions or issues for categorical variables. Identify data

sources and plan methods of data collection and recording
Collect data, organise into categories and create displays using lists,
tables, picture graphs and simple column graphs, with and without the
use of digital technologies
Interpret and compare data displays
Conduct chance experiments, identify and describe possible outcomes
and recognise variation in results
Grade 4
Describe possible everyday events and order their chances of
occurring
Identify everyday events where one cannot happen if the other
happens
Identify events where the chance of one will not be affected by the
occurrence of the other
Select and trial methods for data collection, including survey questions
and recording sheets
Construct suitable data displays, with and without the use of digital
technologies, from given or collected data. Include tables, column
graphs and picture graphs where one picture can represent many data
values
Evaluate the effectiveness of different displays in illustrating data

features including variability

Grade 5:

List outcomes of chance experiments involving equally likely outcomes

and represent probabilities of those outcomes using fractions
Recognise that probabilities range from 0 to 1
Pose questions and collect categorical or numerical data by observation
or survey
Construct displays, including column graphs, dot plots and tables,
appropriate for data type, with and without the use of digital technologies
Describe and interpret different data sets in context