Sorting Apples

Early Years (Age 3 – 6)

Curriculum Goal

Kindergarten: Demonstrating Literacy and Mathematics Behaviour

Demonstrate an understanding of numbers, using concrete materials to explore and investigate counting, quantity, and number relationships (#15).
Collect, organize, display, and interpret data to solve problems and to communicate information, and explore the concept of probability in everyday contexts (#19).

Context

Students and the teacher begin by sitting on the floor in a circle.

Materials

Three types of apples (e.g., red, green, yellow) cut into pieces so that every student can try each type of apple
Pre-made framework of a vertical bar graph on chart paper
Paper apple cut outs (Appendix A)

Lesson

Ask students to name types of apples they know.
Hand out the pieces of apple and have the students try it.
Ask each student to comment on how it tastes, smells, feels, and looks.
Repeat the steps above until students have tried all 3 types of apples.
One at a time, ask students to indicate which is their favourite apple by sticking a cut out of the apple on the graph in the appropriate column.

Look Fors

How do children describe each type of apple (e.g., its colour, taste, feel)?
How do they understand the relationship between the data and the graph?
What kind of observations do children make when looking at the graph? Are they talking about which one has the most, which one has the least? Are they counting?

Extension

The graph created in this lesson can be used in the lesson “Introduction to Graphing”.

Related Lessons

Uses the same graph from this lesson to review the components of a graph and chart data together as a class.

Students explore the components of a graph and practice interpreting the data presented on a graph.

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