Students determine if a design solution works as intended to change the speed or direction of an object with a push or pull by designing and creating a ramp.  They test their design, make improvements and redesign their ramp before retesting.  They graph their data to determine which ramp makes their ball hit their intended target.

This is a remix of Color Week from Illustrative Mathematics, https://tasks.illustrativemathematics.org/content-standards/tasks/1110.   The purpose of this activity is to give students practice in collecting data and answering questions related to the gathered data that is displayed in a picture graph to support sol K.11a and K.11b.  Students wear a different color shirt each week to represent the color of the week, collect the data by coloring a shirt, place it on the graph, and count how many were worn of that color. 

Collecting, organizing, and representing data in object graphs, picture graphs, and tables Answering questions related to data Mathematics Instructional Plans (MIPs) help teachers align instruction with the Mathematics Standards of Learning (SOL) by providing examples of how the knowledge, skills and processes found in the SOL and curriculum framework can be presented to students in the classroom.

In this lesson, students will travel to different stations while participating in various graphing activities.  The students will also be creating a whole class survey in one of the stations, where they will be documenting their results and sharing with the whole class when the lesson is complete.

Let’s graph our favorite holiday and learn about each other!  This lesson introduces holidays and then allows children to choose their favorite and graph that information as a whole class.

Let’s play with our hands and minds and discover our favorite STEM station! 

Children are always taught “not to play with their food” but in this sensory lesson, that’s exactly what we are going to do.  We are going to use our five senses to explore some healthy fruits. We are going to learn how to gather, use and analyze our data to answer questions.

The class will collect data, make a graph (digital and paper), and interpret outcomes to answer questions.