Lesson 6

Creating picture graphs

In this lesson, students apply what they learned in Scratch and create a picture graph program to display the weather data they collected. Through a variety of teacher- and student-led activities, students modify an existing program, add sprites, and adjust values in motion blocks to ensure that their programs run as intended.

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Grade 3
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Subject Science, Math
schedule
Length of lesson 50 minutes

Learning objective

Students will create a picture graph to display data.

Standards

CSTA Standards

  • 1B-AP-10: Create programs that include sequences, events, loops, and conditionals
  • 1B-AP-12: Modify, remix, or incorporate portions of an existing program into one's own work, to develop something new or add more advanced features

NGSS Standards

  • 3-ESS2-1: Represent data in tables and graphical displays to describe typical weather conditions expected during a particular season.

Common Core Standards

  • CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.3.MD.B.3: Draw a scaled picture graph and a scaled bar graph to represent a data set with several categories. Solve one- and two-step “how many more” and “how many less” problems using information presented in scaled bar graphs. For example, draw a bar graph in which each square in the bar graph might represent 5 pets.