Sorting Apples
Age group
- Early Years (Age 3 to 6)
Curriculum Goal
Kindergarten: Demonstrating Literacy and Mathematics Behaviour
- Demonstrate an understanding of numbers, using concrete materials to explore and investigate counting, quantity, and number relationships (#15).
- Collect, organize, display, and interpret data to solve problems and to communicate information, and explore the concept of probability in everyday contexts (#19).
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Context
Students and the teacher begin by sitting on the floor in a circle.
Materials
- Three types of apples (e.g., red, green, yellow) cut into pieces so that every student can try each type of apple
- Pre-made framework of a vertical bar graph on chart paper
- Paper apple cut outs (Appendix A)
Lesson
- Ask students to name types of apples they know.
- Hand out the pieces of apple and have the students try it.
- Ask each student to comment on how it tastes, smells, feels, and looks.
- Repeat the steps above until students have tried all 3 types of apples.
- One at a time, ask students to indicate which is their favourite apple by sticking a cut out of the apple on the graph in the appropriate column.
Look Fors
- How do children describe each type of apple (e.g., its colour, taste, feel)?
- How do they understand the relationship between the data and the graph?
- What kind of observations do children make when looking at the graph? Are they talking about which one has the most, which one has the least? Are they counting?
Extension
The graph created in this lesson can be used in the lesson “Introduction to Graphing”.