Hello lovely friends!
I hope you have all been loving my second grade
math packets because I have a new one for you that’s all about data and graphing.
Data and graphing in second grade has students become familiar with representing and interpreting data with tally marks, bar graphs, picture graphs and line plots.
I have always loved teaching data and
graphing because it's a concept that can easily be taught in a hands-on
way. Understanding what data is and how to organize it is really important and
graphing allows students to organize that data while practicing their sorting
and observation skills!
The Activities
There are over 40 activities included in this packet with many of
them being interactive. Plus, I have included some differentiation options too,
so if you have students working at a lower or higher level, there's a bunch of
activities for them too.
Here is a list of EVERYTHING this packet includes:
♥ Tally Marks
(to 30)
♥ Counting
Tally Marks (to 50)
♥ Data
Categories
♥ Categorize
and Graph
♥ Pencil Tally
Chart
♥ Ice Cream
Shop
♥ Car Tally
and Graph
♥ Zoo Animal
Bar Graph
♥ Weather Bar
Graph
♥ Spelling
Test Bar Graph
♥ Coffee Shop
True or False
♥ Label a
Graph
♥ Garden
Animal Graph
♥ Town Graph
♥ Clothes Shop
♥ Roll a Dice
Data Collection
♥ Restaurant
Bar Graph
♥ Our Pets
Data Collection
♥ Favorite
Food Collect and Graph
♥ Ben's Toy
Chest Picture Graph
♥ Popcorn Sold
Picture Graph
♥ Fishing Time
Picture Graph
♥ T-Shirts
True or False
♥ Betty's
Bakery Graph
♥ Favorite
Season Data Collection
♥ Fruit Line
Plot
♥ Ribbon
Length Line Plot
♥ School Trip
True or False
♥ Tree Height
Line Plot
♥ Cubes Line
Plot
♥ Bugs Line
Plot
♥ Pencil
Length Data Collection
♥ Favorite
Seas Animal Data Collection
♥ Data
Collection Project
Data and Graphing Experiences
There are a number of different data and graphing experiences that students should be given as well as concepts they should learn to help them gain a holistic understanding.
1. 1. Tally Marks
Students are introduced to tally marks in
kindergarten and first grade, so it’s really important to review this concept because the basis
of many data collection activities require tally mark knowledge. In the
classroom, I would always use tally marks informally wherever I could so that
students could see how they’re used in real life. If we did a class vote, or if
I was required to count anything up, I’d use tally marks to display my data. Within
this packet, I have included lots of opportunities for students to become
familiar with counting and recording tallies both as a standalone activity and as a part of a data collection activity.
1. 2. Bar Graphs
Bar graphing activities are just so fun
and are usually covered in depth in kindergarten and first grade. In second
grade, bar graphs become trickier as students are required to draw and
interpret graphs with four categories. The packet includes a range of
activities that will allow your students to not only represent their data in a
bar graph but also to read and answer questions based on a graph.
2. 3. Picture Graphs
Picture graphs are another favorite of
mine, especially with younger learners. Students love looking at the pictures
and symbols to organize and understand data. Picture graphs also help
students practice their subitizing skills because they can quickly recognize
the objects. The packet includes so many diverse activities for picture graphs.
Students will have opportunities to not only interpret picture graphs but also
collect and represent their data using picture graphs too!
3. 4. Line Plots
Lines plots are a new concept to second graders so
extra instruction will be needed. The great thing is that students already have
foundational knowledge about bar graphs and picture graphs so this can help
them understand how line plots work too. Common Core specifies that students should
measure objects to create line plots, so I have added a range of learning
opportunities for this. I have also added extra learning opportunities that don’t relate to measurement so that students can see the many ways
that line plots can be used.
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