Title: How
Do You Get to School?
Grade Levels: 3-4
Subjects: Language
Arts, Math, Social Studies, Art
Learner Outcomes:
Students will identify how they get to school.
Students will create a class pictograph.
Students will demonstrate graph making skills.
Students will compare and contrast individual graphs.
Duration of Lesson:
2 - 45 minute sessions
Materials:
Book--This
Is the Way We Go to School
Bulletin Board: Caption--"How Do You Get to School", Words--
Walk,
Car, Bus #, cutouts
-- Bus, car, shoe
Markers, crayons, and colored pencils
Technology Tools/Courseware:
Excel
Tom
Snyder Graph Club
Presentation TV
Teacher Notes:
Order
bulletin board sets--Off to School, Big Happy School Bus,
Wheels on the Bus.
Prepare pictograph bulletin board--
Apply title to top and
captions to bottom of bulletin board. Create columns for walkers
(foot), automobile passengers
(car), and bus passengers (column
for each bus number).
Familiarize oneself with the Tom
Snyder Graph Club software.
Use patterns or Ellison machine to cut out shoes, buses, and cars.
Procedures:
Day 1
-
Read story--This
Is the Way We Go to School.
-
Distribute cutouts of cars, buses,
shoes and have students decorate them by adding details. Make
a class pictograph showing how children get to school (bus & #, car,
walk). Students write their names on a bus, shoe, or car. Graph
the results on the bulletin board.
-
Compare and discuss the results of the bulletin board.
Day 2
-
Utilize graphing software to demonstrate graph making skills
via presentation television.
-
Students will create a pictograph incorporating information
from the bulletin board using Tom
Snyder Graph Club or Excel.
Modifications:
Supply special needs students with
a model of a completed graph and provide assistance for successful completion.
Enrichment Activities:
This
Is the Way We Go to School takes
readers on a journey
around
the world and identifies different countries, celebrating the
many different
ways children travel to the classroom.
Print a copy of an online world
map .
Students will be asked to locate various countries.
Evaluation/Assessment:
Teacher observation and assessment
of students' completed graphs.
State and National Standards:
English Language Arts--3.2, 3.16, 3.23, 3.77, 3.83,
4.11, 4.20, 4.85, 4.93, 4.96, 4.100.
Math--3.28, 3.29, 3.31, 3.49, 3.51, 3.59, 4.28,
4.50, 4.52, 4.56.
Social Studies--3.8, 3.29, 3.46, 3.47, 3.51, 3.52,
3.55, 4.45, 4.49, 4.50, 4.51, 4.53
Art--3.1
National
Standards
References:
Baer, Edith. This
Is the Way We Go to School. Scholastic, Inc., 1990.
Tom
Snyder Graph Club. 1996-1998.
Authors:
Burnsville Elementary School
Brenda Bleigh-bbleigh@access.k12.wv.us
Sandy Post-spost@access.k12.wv.us
Debbie Smith-dasmith@access.k12.wv.us