During September, when the kids were all learning their school routines, they were learning all about themselves, their likes and dislikes. We used bar graphs to tell some things about ourselves.
Graphs are a great visual way for children to look for trends among the data that we have gathered about our class (e.g., counting girls and boys, favourite animals, eye colours).
We used graphs to count how many girls and boys. To help see the trend, we used orange paper for girls and blue paper for boys. Just by looking, the children can see the trend of the genders in our class.
Graphs are a great visual way for children to look for trends among the data that we have gathered about our class (e.g., counting girls and boys, favourite animals, eye colours).
We used graphs to count how many girls and boys. To help see the trend, we used orange paper for girls and blue paper for boys. Just by looking, the children can see the trend of the genders in our class.
And the kids graphed the results individually.
Using coloured strips (orange for girls and green for boys) for the graph, What Is Our Favourite Animal In Class, the kids were able to identify the gender who likes the most of a certain animal. Emma pointed out that the girls liked the butterfly the most while Rodin pointed out that the boys liked the dolphin the most. And many were able to identify that the dolphin is the most favourite animal of our class. We talked about how the strips looked like bricks on top of each other to form towers. And taller the tower means more boys and girls voted for it. And during centre time, the conversation revolved around this topic!
Another activity that was done for the class profile was eye colour. The children had to colour their eye cutouts the same colour of their eyes. And they would place these cutouts under the correct column of the bar graph (e.g., brown eyes, blue eyes, green eyes, grey eyes). From there, the children saw the most popular colour of their eyes. Then, we discussed the trend of the data. After much discussion, a tough question was asked "How many more boys and girls have brown eyes than those with blue eyes?" This is one tough question even for a Grade 1 or 2 but Milan answered, "11 more boys and girls!"
Then, we graphed the results as well.
I believe bar graphs or picto graphs are very good ways to show data collection to kindergarten students because it is (1) simple (2) visual and (3) you can use colours to give further meaning to the data trend.
Enjoy!
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