Activity Number:

Activity Five

Target Year Level:

Year Four

Inquiry Questions:

How can we represent the amount of recycling each class has collected?
How does using a graph help demonstrate how much recycling each class has
collected?

Curriculum Links:
Geography
Geographical Inquiry Skills (Collecting, recording, evaluating and representing):
Represent data by constructing tables and graphs (ACHGS028)
Geographical Knowledge and Understanding:
The sustainable management of waste from production and consumption (ACHGK025)
Mathematics:
Statistics and Probability (Data Representation and Interpretation):
Construct suitable data displays, with and without the use of digital technologies, from
given or collected data. Include tables, column graphs and picture graphs where one
picture can represent many data values (ACMSP096)

General Capabilities, Cross Curricula Priorities and ICT

Links
Numeracy

Sustainability

ICT

Necessary Student Prior Knowledge:

To complete this activity students will need to have the prior knowledge of:
How to use the application iChart Maker
How to create a column graph
The necessary elements to create column graph (title and labels)
How much recycling each class has collected
Why it is important to recycle and be sustainable

Resources:

Class set of iPads with iChart Maker

The data sheets the students have previously created
Peer Checklist (See Appendix One)

Learning Intentions and Lesson Objectives:

Teacher will:
Prepare all resources
Monitor students learning as they work independently
Assist individual students
Create the peer checklist
Students will:
Create a column graph representing how much the school has recycled
Assist a peer with their graph by completing the peer checklist form.
By the end of this lesson you should be able to:
Recognise which grade recycled the most over the four weeks.
Create a column graph with titles and labels.

Activity Overview:
In this activity students will complete a column graph to show how much the school has
recycled in a four-week timeframe. Previously the Year Fours devised a plan for how the
school could be more sustainable. The students decided to create a school wide competition to
see which grade could recycle the most. Students have now collected the data from each grade
and are ready to graph the results. Students can choose to use either the app iChart Maker or
Excel or they can complete the graph by hand. Students will then assist a peer by using the
peer checklist form to ensure that the graph has all of the necessary components.

Student Oriented Instructions:

Modifications
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6. Once you are both happy with your column graphs you are to give them to the teacher.

Assessment:
FOR:
Not applicable for this lesson
AS:
Students will reflect on their own and a peers graph through the use of the peer checklist form.
OF:
The completed graph will be used to assess what the students have learnt throughout the unit.
The graph will be used as an assessment piece for geography and also mathematics.