Objective: To teach students the steps necessary to construct graphs (bar, line and
Circle).
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1) Teacher will write the objective for the day on the board.
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2) Teacher will distribute and review the hand out on how to construct a graph.
NOTE: Hand out will be included in the unit. (Exhibits 1 - 6)
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3) Students will be lead in a discussion of how to label graphs.
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4) Students will review data from the handout and be lead in a discussion of a graph generated from the data.
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5) Using data from the handout the teacher will model on the board the construction of a graph. (Type is teachers' choice).
Homework: Students will be required to use data from a table to construct a graph.
To cover this objective it could take three days: especially if students have very little to no prior knowledge. On day 2 students will learn to choose a type of graph based on the data being presented. At the end of day 3 students should have a basic understanding of interval, labels and titles of a graph.
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