Casper

Students bring in their favorite color apple and graph the results. Included in this attachment is a ready-made parent letter and a ready-to-use graph for students to graph the class results. Use this lesson in the fall (September 26th is Johnny Appleseed's birthday) to introducing graphs and math language like "more than," "less than," "equal," etc.

Survey the class giving them 2 options. (ie: Are you right-handed or left-handed? Do you like Winter or Summer better? Do you like white chocolate or milk chocolate better?). Use tally marks to record each student's response. Transfer that data to this ready-made graph. Students write a title and labels, analyze the class data to create a bar graph, then answer simple questions. The graph is generic enough to use with any 2 choice survey question, but detailed enough to be effective. (There are