Graphing - A Word Wall

Graphing is a task that I love teaching. 

Developing a graph from data that students have collected is fun! Noisy but fun!

  

These Word Wall cards are great for displaying in your classroom. 

They have a heading, a description and an illustration. 

The size makes them great for display and still easy to see and read. 

I add the cards as we learn about the vocabulary about graphing. 

Included in this pack is a 'word splash' to do as an individual or it can be added to as a whole grade. 

The KWHL is great for capturing what students know before they start, what they want to know, how they think they will find it out and then after the unit of work they can record any new knowledge they have gained. 

This is great for sharing with parents at conferences. 

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This pack is a great pack to help start you off on simple graphing. 

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Happy graphing!

Wildlife Park

Last week we went to the Wildlife Park here in our hometown of Ballarat. At school all our kids have been looking at using tally marks and graphing as well as animals and how they behave and live on our planet.

New skill for me - uploading a video to my blog. Wow - take video, upload to youtube, share (but share embed), copy html code, switch to blog and HTML on a post, post and then cross my fingers and everything else that when I publish you get to see two koalas moving, eating and hear our kids ohhing and aahhing in the background! So please be patient if it didn't work........

There are also some photos of koalas, kangaroos, a very shy echidna and a crocodile.

The really big croc died just recently.  There are also eagles, lizards, snakes, turtles, tortoises, frogs and Tasmanian Devils that I haven't got photos of here.

We also took our tally marks of animals that we saw. We took these back to school and then made our graphs from them. There were way more kanagroos then anything else. Some of our high achievers tried to have a code - 1 square = 5 animals. Pretty darn clever!