Apple Graphing with First Grade

So this week I am working on graphing!  You can do so much with graphing!  My first thought was a tasting party!  You can make this a quick unit or even use all week!  I had to include a cute writing activity to hang on a bulletin board or impress your colleagues and put these little cuties in the hallways!

I will use these cuties at the end of our unit.  There are four friends to choose from.  The students will complete the graphing booklet, which will tell them which "writing buddy" they will hang in the hall.  I'll explain more below. 

So the apple graphing booklet will take some prep work on your end ( or some helpful parents ).  I have included a letter to send home for parent involvement and apple donations:)  Day 1 we will talk about graphing and complete the first worksheet.  

You will have students taste apple slices.  They will then complete the "My Vote" section on the worksheet.  Students will give the apple slices a star 1 = ok and 4 = loved it.  They will then pass or walk their paper around and have their classmates color in the graph.  If they gave the apple 1 star they will color in the 1 star square.  I tell my students the colors we will be using, for example, "if you chose 1 star I want you to take your green crayon"  they will only color in the 1 star square.  Once all kiddos have colored in worksheets we will then go over class vote section where they will answer how many each "star" received. 

There are four pages for our taste testing.  Apple Slices, Apple Juice, Caramel Apple, and Apple Cereal.  You can do a page a day and the Friday start the Whole class graphing.

Day 5 or Friday 

The first thing we do is go back through our booklets and use our data to determine what our favorite apple choice was.  Now that each student has completed this page and knows what their favorite choice was we can then start the whole group graph.

Now I once again instruct students what colors we will be using so it all makes sense.  So I chose apple slices on my favorite apple choice.  Now I will take my red crayon around the class and fill in a square above apple slices.  Each student will color a square on graph.  (you could do as a walk around or if that is chaos you can simply pass to your neighbor - if your seating would allow )  Once we have completed the bar graph we then work on the next and last part of the graphing. 

The Results - We now talk about the data in our graph.  First we look at our graph and fill in the blanks under the pictures writing how many each choice got.  We then fill in the blanks and complete the worksheet by figuring out which apple choice had the most votes.

Now the trick is to get these littles not to put the same answer on every apple choice!  Spend some time explaining that we want to have different answers and we don't want each apple choice to have 4 stars.  Now that we have completed the booklet we can move on to the cute writing craft.  Students will write which apple choice they chose and why they liked it the best. '

I thought it would be helpful to have a parent letter to send home for apple donations.  It is included in the packet ;)

Have fun with it and they will too!  Students love doing something new and getting to eat yummy  treats!  I am currently working on more graphing resources, but was pretty excited about getting this in my store, so I am going to go ahead and post this as a single purchase; however I will include it in my Chapter 10 Go Math Bundle.  I will add link here once I have completed:)

 

 

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Till next time, Teach On!