Lesson Objective Students record and graph data. In groups they will work together to interpret the graphs. Finally, students will write stories that will correspond to given graphs. Overview of the Lesson Students plant seeds and, once the seeds sprout, record the change in height of the plants for several days. In groups or individually, they make graphs to display the data and then predict how the future growth may appear on the graph.
Students continue to gather data, complete, and interpret the graphs.
Then students work in small groups to write and appropriate story about the life cycle of a plant that corresponds to a graph they are given. A unit of Investigations in Number, Data, and Space. Students should have some experience drawing and interpreting graphs. Students should be able to draw a graph and place coordinates in the first quadrant. This broadens the context of their experience and sets the stage for the story-writing activity in the final part of the lesson.