My Favorite Birthday/party Plan
Managing Data
MY FAVORITE BIRTHDAY/PARTY PLAN
Grades K-2
Skills and Objectives:
q Students will learn about collecting data.
q Students will see how data can be organized and displayed in a simple chart.
q Students will understand how to use data to plan for a class party.
MY FAVORITE BIRTHDAY
PARTY PLAN
Chalkboard
Suggested Groupings:
Definition
Suggested Groupings:
Small groups
Whole class, individuals
chart: a drawing, graph,
or picture that shows
Getting Started:
Getting Started:
information in a way
q Explain to students that by
q Discuss with students that the
that makes it easy to
taking a census, the government
census helps us plan what we will
understand.
collects information. Students will
need in the future by asking
have a chance to collect informa-
people about their lives today.
tion too. The information they collect will be
The art exercise they are about to begin will
about each student’s birthday.
help the class plan and be ready for an all-
students’ birthday party.
Using the Activity Worksheet:
1. Distribute copies of the Lesson 5A Activity
Using the Activity Worksheet:
Worksheet (page 16) to your students.
1. Photocopy and distribute the Lesson 5B
q Discuss with students the many different ways
Activity Worksheet (page 17) to your class.
to celebrate someone’s birthday. Ask them to
q Direct students to color and decorate the
draw and color in a picture of a favorite birth-
party hat according to your instructions. For
day party, either their own or a celebration
each of the twelve months, tell those students
they’ve been to, or one that they can imagine.
with birthdays in that month to color and deco-
2. Take a survey of student birthdays. Explain
rate their hat in a particular way (i.e. January
that a survey is when you ask the same question
birthdays make blue hats with red stars; June
of many people and then add up their answers.
birthdays make yellow hats with orange stripes).
Discuss that the census is a type of survey.
q Take a “hat census.” Go through the list of
q List the twelve months of the year on the
twelve different hat designs and tally on the
board and, as you go around the room to each
board the number of students that now have
student, tally their responses.
each type of hat.
3. Use the birthday data that you have collected
Wrapping Up:
to create a birthday chart or calendar on a bul-
q Explain that the class will choose one day
letin board or poster board. Have students help
for a party to celebrate all of the students’
by making a symbol (a balloon or birthday
birthdays. You can use the data from the class
candle) to represent each student’s birthday.
“hat census” to make real party hats for the
celebration. The colors you use will represent all
Wrapping Up:
the different months in which students celebrate
q Review the chart you have created with your
their birthdays.
students. Reinforce how charts make it easier to
understand information about a number of
different people or things.
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s, or one that you’ve imagined.
Birthday
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orksheet
My Favorite
Activity W
Draw a picture of a favorite birthday party — yours or a friend’
NAME
My birthday is on
Lesson 5A
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Lesson 5B (continued)
Party Plan
Here’s a birthday party hat. Your teacher will ask you for your birthday
month and then tell you what color your hat should be. Next, use a crayon
or marker to color in your hat.
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