What+Color+Are+Your+Skittles?+LessonPlan

Title: What Color Are Your Skittles?

Concept/ Topic to Teach: Graphing

Standards Addressed: ALCOS 15 represent categorical data using tables and graphs; 17- represent numerical data using tables and graphs, including bar graphs, line graphs and line plots.

Specific Objectives: Ss will create a bar graph using Kidszone. com, chart the different colors found in a package of Skittles, and collect data to input into a graph.

Required Materials: package of Skittles, index cards, Computer Lab (Internet Access)

Anticipatory Set: Ask the students if they have ever wondered who determines what colors and how many of each color goes into a pack of Skittles? Today we are going to figure out the percentage of different colors in a package and make a bar graph.

Step-by-Step Procedures for Teaching the Lesson: Distribute Skittles with index cards. Have students to look at the package and estimate how many different colors of each are in the package. Write down the estimates on the index card. Open the packages of Skittles and count and tally how many colors of each there are.

Guided Practice/ Monitoring: The teacher will monitor the tallies on index cards. After tally marks have been completed, the students will go to the Computer Lab. The teacher will model how to get on Kidszone. com. Teacher will model how to put in the information for the graph. Each student will put in the information and print a copy of their bar graph.

Closure: Review how to put information in on the Web site. Have students to compare their graphs to each other.

Assessment Based on Objectives: Ss will complete a bar graph with Skittles information at 80% mastery.

Adaptations (for Special Needs): The teacher will work with Special Needs students in a small group at a computer.

Extensions (For Advanced Students): Ss will go to the Skittles webpage to find out what is the percentage of each color is supposed to be in a package.

Possible Connections to Other Subjects: Science and Reading lessons can be connected to this lesson. Students could research how Skittles are made.

Refelction: I enjoyed teaching this lesson. The students of course loved it because they got to eat Skittles, but they did get to create a bar graph. It was great. Students of all levels were able to print out their graph.