Discuss making line and bar graphs. Using the newspaper article, C.P.L. Wants Cut in Power Use, discuss the concept of supply and demand. Therefore the price of corn is expected to increase. Have students focus on the Port of Corpus Christi. Working in cooperative groups, students will look at data about the arrival and departure of ships from the Port of Corpus Christi.
Students are to examine the data over a ten day period.
The students will write their numbers in the place value chart. Children will then be paired with a partner. The students will practice reading their numbers orally. The student will write each number on an index card and write the number in words. Students will use the data from the outbound cargo column for the years from 1993 through 1997 to order the numbers from least to greatest.