Students will then come back to the table and draw their three items they have chosen at the bottom of their Create Your Own Problem graph. Students will then walk around the room with their graph and record the data of their findings.
They will record the data, making a symbolic graph, by coloring in a graph section for each item they found of their three things they chose to graph. Students could do it a second time choosing three different items to graph. The students then write some sentences about their graph.
We practice making statements orally about our daily graphs each morning and afternoon. You might want a student teacher, aid, or a parent to be available in this center to help them with their sentences for those that are not ready to do this kind of activity on their own. However, many can do a lot of sound spelling after the first of the year. Therefore, encourage them to write as much as they can.
Center 5: Manipulative Graphing The center has six or seven yogurt cups holding small collections of manipulatives to graph -- plastic animals, pattern blocks, buttons, plastic fruit, colored pasta, etc. Each student will choose a yogurt cup. The students will take one of the large four column blank graphs. I made six of these so that six students can work at once. On the top is a line for the question or title. On the bottom of each column are lines to write the choices.
Numbers go up the left side. I laminated these so students can use a dry-erase marker to label the graph. The students take the manipulative in their yogurt cup and place the items on the real graph. The students each take one of these graphs and make a simple bar graph by coloring in one section to represent each item on the real graph. They write their title and label the choices on this graph.
Each section will be labeled a different color. They will color each bear section the color indicated. The students will then take a plastic bag with gummy bears. Make sure to give your expectations of only touching and eating the gummy bears when given instructions to do so. The students will sort the bears by placing them on the correct color of the sheet. The students will then take a Gummy Bear Graph worksheet.
They will color the bears in each column the colors they used on their "Gummy Bear Sorting" worksheet. They will use the information they found out on their sorting worksheet and graph that data on the Gummy Bear Graph worksheet. They will use the bear stamps to stamp the correct number of each color of gummy bears. Then allow the students to eat the gummy bears.
The student will then take the same color of construction paper that they choose for their gummy bear. They will trace a bear pattern on their colored construction paper and cut it out.
They will then take their paper bear and tape it on the laminated class bar graph. Teachers can add thematic manipulatives to the graphing centers to correlate with their current theme. For example, you could use colored candy hearts for the graph instead of gummy bears, dig up dinosaur bones for the dinosaur unit instead of bugs, have a winter nature picture instead of the zoo animal picture, or you could take a walk outside to choose things to graph instead of the walk in the room.
You could have a graphing magnet center. You could have yogurt cups of small object magnets and on a small metal sheet they could graph their three different kinds of magnets. For the more advanced students you might give them a graphing game called, "Graphing Logically.
A game board will be drawn on one side of a poster board, using markers and a ruler. Two students play this game at a time. To start the game, each player will need a bag of pennies about 15 pennies in each bag.
The players will determine who will use heads of the penny and who will use the tail of the penny. The students will need to know the rows and the columns on a graph.
They will each take turns rolling two number cubes. When they roll the number cube they place a penny on the correct dot on the graph to show the outcome. For example: 6 and 3 could be row 3 and column 6 or row 6 and column 3. The first player to cover all dots in any vertical, horizontal, or diagonal row wins the game.
The students must use logic to determine which of two possible moves will best increase their chances of completing a row. The students will find three things to graph at home. They will then label the graph with a title and choices and color in their information.
They will then bring it back and share with the class. Teacher observation is the best assessment for these graphing activities. Walk around with a clipboard and post-it notes to make quick notes of which students need special help, or use the class notes recording form attached in the Appendix. The following questions can be used to assess student learning. Which column has the least? Which column has the most?
Are any columns the same? Children place their gummy bears by color on the graph, count how many of each color, and compare colors to see which group has the most, least, or same amount.
Download: Graph Color. Download: Graph Blackline. I recommend printing these and laminating so they can be wiped clean if they get sticky. The cards can be cut into individual cards or just leave four to a sheet. Children duplicate the bear pattern by either placing gummy bears directly on top of the bears on the card, or by placing the gummy bears on the table below the pattern card.
If you want children to continue a pattern, just have them place bears in a row beside the pattern card. You could even cut the pattern cards in half for children to continue the pattern and then check their answer with the other half.
Download: Gummy Bear Patterns. Haribo Gummy Bears 5 lb bag — Amazon Prime affiliate link. Graphics in these printables by Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah. Karen is the founder of PreKinders. She also works as a full-time Pre-K teacher in Georgia. Read more These gummy bear printables are great! I just discovered your site a couple weeks ago and have been so impressed. Thank you for making my pre-k teacher job so much more enriched. Great idea… I hope they can do the activity without eating the gummy bears..
I know it will be lots of fun!!! I am new to teaching pre-k this year and I have really enjoyed your resources! Thank you for having a heart to share!
I had major color problems in copying your pages for the gummy bear graphs. The first page with the 5 bears for sorting came out beautifully, but the colors were all wrong on the other pages. I even copied the first page from the printer to see if my ink was the problem, but it also came out great. Has anyone else had problems? What can I do to fix it? Want access to ALL current and future freebies in one spot?!
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