Our first big project has been to create a sailing ship based on the Caravel used by early explorers. Each of the twelve sails carries a fact about each Explorer - their age, favorite color, favorite food, number & type of pets, number of siblings, etc. They are meant to be a visual story about each of us. Look for them soon, sailing through the stairwell!
We also used the data gathered from these artworks to create graphs of information about our classes. We learned things like: There are more 7 year-olds than 6 year olds in the Explorers class. Two of the Navigators have parakeets as pets (like Pirates of old) AND more people in the Explorers class have dogs as pets than any other type of pet combined.
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| Graphing data about numbers of brothers and sisters (0, 1 and 2) |
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| The yellow bar is the number of students with 2 brothers and/or sisters. |
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| Figuring out which manipulatives will help with calculations. |
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| Representing ages using Base Ten units. |
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| A graph showing Navigator's favorite foods. |
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| Sharing strategies and products. |
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