BASIC PRODUCTIVITY TOOLS: SPREADSHEETS

Name: Marissa Broughton

Grade Level: First Grade
Content Area: Math
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 are in the categories,
how many more or less are in the categories 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, and the information in 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 move a graphic of their
favorite holidays onto a data collect graph designed. Once the class has added their
choice to graph, the teacher will lead a discussion to determine the number of choice
made for each holidays.
The teacher will then lead the students through the steps of creating a graph using
Graph Club. A title, image representing the various holidays and specific colors
assigned to each holidays 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.
Level of Technology Implementation (LoTi): This activity is at a level 4 because
students will be collecting 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 spreadsheet and graph/chart provided *: The
graph display the data collected as students selected their favorite holidays. 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 spreadsheet/graph/chart 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.