BASIC PRODUCTIVITY TOOLS: SPREADSHEETS

Name: Nelia Card

Grade Level: 1st 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 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
As the lesson is extended and students collect their own data, the Blooms level will extend into the
higher thinking levels.
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 formats 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
ActivInspire software. Once the class has added their choice to the graph, the teacher will lead a
discussion to determine the number of choices made for each sport.
The teacher will then 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 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. (Extension activity The teacher can challenge the students analysis of the graph using
the following question formats: How many more students liked football than baseball? How many
people participated in the poll? How many students picked basketball and baseball?
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 level 4, students
will be encouraged to collect 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 *:

BASIC PRODUCTIVITY TOOLS: SPREADSHEETS

Our Favorite Sports.gcl

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, ect.
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.