Description
This lesson introduces students to how data can be represented visually with bar-graphs. Students begin by reading the story "The Animals Would Not Sleep!" and discuss the computational thinking concept of abstraction. Afterwards, students participate in group-data collection and visualize their own data. The end of the lesson consists of having students practice creating their own bar-graphs and creating their own tables to represent data.
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SC Digital Literacy Standards
Data and Analysis
3.DA.2.1 Discuss appropriate tools for collecting data.
3.DA.2.2 Represent data with bar graphs
3.DA.3.1 Interpret and analyze given data (i.e., tables).
3.DA.4.1 Draw conclusions from different types of graphs (i.e., scaled bar graphs, line plots).
4.DA.2.2 Represent data with bar graphs and line plots.
4.DA.3.1 Interpret and analyze given graphs (i.e., bar graphs, line plots)
6.DA.3.1 Explain how large data sets are represented graphically (e.g., frequency plots, bar graphs).
Computing Systems
4.CS.2.2 Explore application software (e.g., word processor, spreadsheet, presentation software, web browser).
Digital Literacy
5.DL.1.5 Add data to spreadsheet software and create a simple graph.
SC Math Standards
Data, Probability, and Statistical Reasoning
3.DPSR.1.1 Collect and organize categorical and numerical data based on observations, surveys, experiments, and investigations with whole number values using tables, scaled picture graphs, scaled bar graphs, or dot plots. Use titles and labels. Limit scales to multiples of 1, 2, 5, and 10.
3.DPSR.1.2 Solve one-step, real-world situations using whole number data represented in tables, scaled picture graphs, scaled bar graphs, or dot plots. Limit scales to multiples of 1, 2, 5, and 10.
4.DPSR.1.1 Collect and organize numerical and categorical data based on observations, investigations, surveys, and experiments using tables, scaled bar graphs, or dot plots. Use titles and labels. Scales to include whole numbers, halves, and fourths.
4.DPSR.1.2 Solve one-step, real-world situations using whole number and fractional data represented in tables, scaled picture graphs, scaled bar graphs, or dot plots. Limit to like denominators of 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, and 10.
5.DPSR.1.3 Analyze categorical and numerical data in graphical displays to make predictions or draw conclusions. Limit displays to tables, bar graphs, dot plots, line graphs, and circle graphs with scales of whole numbers, halves, fourths, and eighths.