Saturday, March 5, 2011
A Spreadsheet For Kindergarten
An idea I had to use a spreadsheet in the kindergarten classroom, is having the students help me create a bar graph representing the different eye colors in the class. I could have all of the children with brown eyes go to one corner of the room. The blue eyed children go to the second corner, the green eyed children to the third corner, and the hazel eyed to the last corner. We can count the number of each and write this down. Then we will make a graph together, showing our results. More than likely, this will be their first time in seeing and understanding a bar graph.
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That is a good idea. Another way to use a spreadsheet would be to have the children graph the way they get home; walk, car, bike, bus.
ReplyDeleteYou could actually show them different ways to graph the same information--bar graph, pie chart, pyramid...
ReplyDeleteSince your unit is on body parts, you could graph their height or even their shoe size. You could them make comparisons. What if you collected data or different animals or even different teachers to make the comparison?