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Series: Book Ideas
Early Childhood Data Collection Activities Are for the Birds
May 5, 2021
Children are naturally interested in birds, so springtime is the perfect opportunity for early childhood data collection activities. Here are some favorites, along with book recommendations.
- Topic: Data Analysis
- Age/Grade Level: 1st Grade, Kindergarten, Pre-K
- Tags Animals, Asia Citro, Birds, Family Math, Kevin Henkes, Susan Edwards Richmond
Series: Focus on the Lesson April 13, 2021
Rekenrek Chart for Voting in the Classroom
Looking for new rekenrek activity ideas? Try voting with a rekenrek chart. In this video, we see a rekenrek chart used to solve a dilemma common to early childhood classrooms: choosing between two favorite books at story time.
- Topic: Data Analysis, Number Sense
- Age/Grade Level: 1st Grade, Kindergarten, Pre-K
- Tags Rekenrek, Subitizing
Series: Book Ideas March 24, 2019
3 Books That Encourage Simple Graph Explorations with Young Ones
At the heart of it, graphing in the early years is about quantifying information in order to answer a question. That requires children to organize data in some visible way so that comparisons and generalizations are possible.
- Topic: Data Analysis
- Age/Grade Level: 1st Grade, Kindergarten, Pre-K
- Tags Anno’s Flea Market, Comparing, Graphing, Mitsumasa Anno, Shoes, Stephen R. Swinburne, Which Would You Rather Be?, Whose Shoes?, William Steig
Series: Ideas at Work February 14, 2018
Control Your Math Fate, Estimate!
Ellen Stoll Walsh's book Mouse Count can be used in the classroom to cover such broad-ranging topics as data analysis, number sense, and number and operations. Key concepts such as estimation can be explored and investigated.
- Topic: Data Analysis
- Age/Grade Level: Kindergarten, Pre-K
- Tags Animals, Ellen Stoll Walsh, Estimation, Mouse Count
Series: Book Ideas March 14, 2017
3 Animal Picture Books That Explore Questions About Data
Data analysis uses math to make sense of the world. It is compiling information and describing it in a quantitative way: how many?
- Topic: Data Analysis
- Age/Grade Level: 1st Grade, Kindergarten, Pre-K
- Tags Animals, Ann Whitehead Nagda, Birds, Cindy Bickel, Graphing, How Many Snails?: A Counting Book, Kevin Henkes, Paul Giganti Jr., Tiger Math: Learning to Graph from a Baby Tiger
Series: Book Ideas August 4, 2016
The Math in Learning Names
Do the children in your classroom know each other’s names? At winter break, are they still pointing to “that girl?” Doing activities in the early weeks of school that use the children’s own names will do wonders for building your classroom community. At the same time, you can be doing math—as well as literacy!
- Topic: Data Analysis
- Age/Grade Level: 1st Grade, 2nd Grade, 3rd Grade, Kindergarten, Pre-K
- Tags Alma and How She Got Her Name, Books, Chrysanthemum, Juana Martinez-Neal, Kevin Henkes
Series: Focus on Collaboration October 17, 2015
Planning Conversation for Shoe Graph Lesson
In this planning conversation, a teacher and coach discuss some of their ideas and concerns about a forthcoming lesson. With a coach, she discusses some of her ideas and concerns about the forthcoming lesson.
- Topic: Data Analysis
- Age/Grade Level: Kindergarten, Pre-K
- Tags Books, English Language Learner, Graphing, Planning, Seasonal, Shoes
Series: Focus on the Child September 4, 2015
Daily Attendance Chart with Child 27
A student explains how his classroom's attendance chart is used.
- Topic: Data Analysis
- Age/Grade Level: Kindergarten, Pre-K
- Tags Attendance, Child 27
Series: Focus on the Lesson June 12, 2015
Which Holds More?
This video from our Focus on the Lesson series demonstrates an activity for teaching capacity in kindergarten and preschool. Students look at two containers and try to determine which one would hold more liquid.
- Topic: Data Analysis, Measurement
- Age/Grade Level: Kindergarten, Pre-K
- Tags Capacity, English Language Learner, Gesture
Series: Focus on the Lesson December 17, 2014
Shoe Graph
In this video, students brainstorm ways to sort their shoes. Later, they graphically organize the data from the sets they created.
- Topic: Data Analysis
- Age/Grade Level: Kindergarten, Pre-K
- Tags Books, English Language Learner, Graphing, Seasonal, Shoes, Stephen R. Swinburne, Whose Shoes?
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