Organize, represent, and interpret data with up to three categories; ask
and answer questions about the total number of data points, how many
in each category, and how many more or less are in one category than in
another.
| Name |
Description |
| Vote for Ice Cream | This lesson will pique your students' interest by reading about Curious George and his ice cream adventure. Students will move from George's adventure to a class chart of favorite ice cream flavors to organizing and completing their own ice cream chart. |
| Birds and Worms | Camouflage is an important survival strategy in the animal kingdom. In this activity, students will discover the value of protective coloration as they pretend to be birds in search of colored worms or birds. |
| Bar Graph Exploration | Here's a great introductory lesson to explore creating bar graphs with your students! Students will learn to create vertical bar graphs with a single unit scale using a variety of manipulatives and answer one-step comparison and put together questions using their data displays. |
| Fairycat Bookstore | This MEA lesson is designed for a First grade level. Students will be working in small groups to figure out what book series is best for the book store. They will vote on the best choice by using a bar graph. Model Eliciting Activities, MEAs, are open-ended, interdisciplinary problem-solving activities that are meant to reveal students’ thinking about the concepts embedded in realistic situations. Click here to learn more about MEAs and how they can transform your classroom. |
| Get Up and Move! | This is a first grade MEA that asks students to work together to help each other explore different ways to problem solve. The students are presented with a problem in which they have to choose the top three choices of sporting equipment that will help raise the most money for a move-a-thon event. They will be asked to reevaluate their original procedures, when given a second set of data. Model Eliciting Activities, MEAs, are open-ended, interdisciplinary problem-solving activities that are meant to reveal students’ thinking about the concepts embedded in realistic situations. Click here to learn more about MEAs and how they can transform your classroom. |
| Adopt-A-Road | Students will use a realistic scenario in order to analyze the steps for adopting a road in their own community. The students will be required to activate prior knowledge about litter and natural habitats, brainstorm independently, and also collaborate within cooperative groups to create a written procedure to explain their reasoning. Students will to take into consideration wildlife, traffic, the amount of litter, and the length of the road (which affects the cost of clean-up). Model Eliciting Activities, MEAs, are open-ended, interdisciplinary problem-solving activities that are meant to reveal students’ thinking about the concepts embedded in realistic situations. Click here to learn more about MEAs and how they can transform your classroom. |
| Science Space Camp | This MEA asks the students to compare information provided on various Science Space Camps to be attended by a student during the summer. They will take into account past attendee's reviews of the camps which should create interesting student discussions. Model Eliciting Activities, MEAs, are open-ended, interdisciplinary problem-solving activities that are meant to reveal students’ thinking about the concepts embedded in realistic situations. Click here to learn more about MEAs and how they can transform your classroom. |
| Traveling With Clifford | In this MEA lesson plan, students will work on their map skills while they practice collecting data in categories, representing data using pictographs, and interpreting data in pictographs to solve a problem. Students will read and/or listen to the story Clifford Takes a Trip. After discussing the story, they will then plan a trip for Clifford to visit the great state of Florida. |
| Flower Power Flower Company MEA & STEAM* Activity | This STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, and Math) lesson has been designed around a Model-Eliciting Activity.
The Flower Power MEA provides students with an real world problem in which they must work as a team to design a plan to select the best flower arrangement for a special event. The resource was primarily designed as an MEA so the time and teacher instructions are based on the MEA format. The additional activities will take several hours of instruction but include watching and discussing a video about the parts of plants, reading a book, and discussing the art in the book as well as additional art by the book author/illustrator. Model Eliciting Activities, MEAs, are open-ended, interdisciplinary problem-solving activities that are meant to reveal students’ thinking about the concepts embedded in realistic situations. Click here to learn more about MEAs and how they can transform your classroom. |
| Noritos Chip Company | In this first grade MEA, the students will use a given data set to help the chip company determine which new flavor of chips it should add to their line of chips. Students will analyze the data and determine how to rank the chips. Students will work in groups to determine the procedure needed to rank the chips and report the information back to the chip company. Model Eliciting Activities, MEAs, are open-ended, interdisciplinary problem-solving activities that are meant to reveal students’ thinking about the concepts embedded in realistic situations. Click here to learn more about MEAs and how they can transform your classroom. |
| Crumbly Cookie Company | Students will determine the best variety for a new cookie entering the market. Students will have to consider flavor, smell, appearance, and the number of cookies in the package. Model Eliciting Activities, MEAs, are open-ended, interdisciplinary problem-solving activities that are meant to reveal students’ thinking about the concepts embedded in realistic situations. Click here to learn more about MEAs and how they can transform your classroom. |
| Planting Vegetables After a Storm | In this open-ended question, students in teams will make decisions about how to rank vegetables to plant on a farm. The students' decisions will be based on various criteria.
Model Eliciting Activities, MEAs, are open-ended, interdisciplinary problem-solving activities that are meant to reveal students’ thinking about the concepts embedded in realistic situations. MEAs resemble engineering problems and encourage students to create solutions in the form of mathematical and scientific models. Students work in teams to apply their knowledge of science and mathematics to solve an open-ended problem, while considering constraints and tradeoffs. Students integrate their ELA skills into MEAs as they are asked to clearly document their thought process. MEAs follow a problem-based, student centered approach to learning, where students are encouraged to grapple with the problem while the teacher acts as a facilitator. To learn more about MEA’s visit: https://www.cpalms.org/cpalms/mea.aspx |
| Visiting Animals and Plants | Visiting Animals and Plants - Students decide on which field trip can help to culminate their study on the interaction of plants and animals. Model Eliciting Activities, MEAs, are open-ended, interdisciplinary problem-solving activities that are meant to reveal students’ thinking about the concepts embedded in realistic situations. Click here to learn more about MEAs and how they can transform your classroom. |
| Give it a Push! | In this lesson, students learn about forces on objects such as a push or a pull. Students interact with items in their classroom testing pushes and pulls. Students explore the strength of pushes through a toy race investigation. |
| Zaspper Baby Fun Toy Company | This Model Eliciting Activity is written at a first grade level. In teams, students will make decisions about how to select the best baby toy on various toy characteristics. Model Eliciting Activities, MEAs, are open-ended, interdisciplinary problem-solving activities that are meant to reveal students’ thinking about the concepts embedded in realistic situations. Click here to learn more about MEAs and how they can transform your classroom. |
| Graphing with Tally O’Malley | Students will collect data from the book "Graphing with Tally O'Malley," and represent the data using tally marks and pictographs. |
| Vote for Ice Cream | Students will collect and represent data about their favorite ice cream flavors by creating a class tally chart. The students will then work in pairs to use the same data to create a pictograph. Students will use the data displays to answer questions about the total number of data points and to compare the categories. |
| Introduction to Bar Graphs | This lesson allows students to learn what bar graphs are used for, how to interpret the data presented, and how to organize their own data using bar graphs. |
| Collecting Data Through the Holidays | This lesson focuses on the use of tally charts, numerical tables, and bar graphs to collect, categorize, and represent data using holiday-based surveys. Students will find out who collected candy on Halloween, who ate corn on Thanksgiving, who left cookies for Santa on Christmas, etc. Teachers will make up their own questions to make the data collection relevant to their class. |
| Face it: Iphone, Ipad, Ipod, I GRAPH! | Students will learn how to read a bar graph by watching videos and polling each other. Students will learn how to create a bar graph to compare information (data.) They will be able to compare data and answer a set of questions about a bar graph. |
