Technology
Connected Lesson
Sheryl Wilson
Title:
A Day at the Beach
Grade Level:
First
Curriculum
Areas:
Math
D-1-E: TLW
collect, organize, and describe data based on real-life
situations.
D-2-E: TLW
construct, read, and interpret data in charts, graphs, tables
Lesson
Objective:
TLW collect data and create a chart and graph using software, The Graph Club.
Technology
Connection:
The Graph Club CD-ROM
Assessment:
Guided practice, independent practice, and the completed project
Procedures:
Divide the students into small groups or pairs. Have them read or read to them
the story, “A Day at the Beach”. Students
make mental observations of things seen in the story. Another idea would be for them to make a very simple drawing
as the story is read, including all the things seen. Working with their groups,
they create a chart or pictorial representation of the things seen in the story.
From the chart, they set up their graph, allowing for the number of rows
and columns needed. When they have
their graph, they may go to the computer and transfer their data into The Graph
Club. They will need to select
their symbols and feed in their numbers, then the graph may be printed in
various forms.
Materials:
CD-ROM “The Graph Club”, paper with large grids for graphing, drawing paper,
story “A Day at the Beach”
A
Day at the Beach
By
Sheryl Wilson
One beautiful warm spring day, I decided I wanted to take a walk down the
beach. I took my dog, Spot, with
me. As Spot and I walked along, we
picked up seashells. We found 3 large pink shells.
Further along we came across a tiny octopus that had washed up in the
beach. We carefully picked him up
and tossed him back into the ocean.
Spot suddenly began barking at something in the sand ahead of us.
He yipped and quickly jumped back.
As I got closer, I could see that a small nest of turtles were hatching
and scampering rapidly across the sand to the water.
We counted 10 baby turtles.
Quietly, so as not to bother them, we hurried out of their way.
All of a sudden the sky became dark.
Thunder rumbled and lightening flashed in the distance.
Spot and I ran and got under a rocky ledge hanging out over part of the
beach.
As quickly as the storm came, it went away.
We began heading back the way we came and picked up 3 more shells.
In some boats offshore we saw 5 fishermen casting their poles for fish as
the sun crept slowly down over the still ocean water.
Spot and I had a wonderful day at the beach.