Spreadsheets: Input Data and Create Charts for Grades 3-5

Lesson Title: Exploring Endangered Species 

Grade Levels: 3-5 

Length of Lesson: 35 minutes 

Overview: Students gather and graph data about endangered species, identify trends, and draw conclusions. Then they create a persuasive poster to encourage people to continue to support the endangered Florida panther. 

Objectives: 

• Student identifies trends by examining data in charts and graphs. 
• Student predicts outcome based on identified trends. 
• Student draws conclusion based on trends. 
• Student uses technology to create an original design. 
• Student uses trend information to identify tone for a message. 

Standards Alignment: 

Mathematics 

• Model with mathematics. 
• Use appropriate tools strategically. 

English Language Arts 

• Use text features and search tools (e.g., key words, sidebars, hyperlinks) to locate information relevant to a given topic efficiently. 
• Write informative/explanatory texts to examine a topic and convey ideas and information clearly. 
• Introduce a topic and group related information together; include illustrations when useful to aiding comprehension. 
• Conduct short research projects that build knowledge about a topic. 
• Recall information from experiences or gather information from print and digital sources; take brief notes on sources and sort evidence into provided categories. 

ISTE 

• Empowered Learner: Students leverage technology to take an active role in choosing, achieving and demonstrating competency in their learning goals, informed by the learning sciences. 
• Innovative Designer: Students use a variety of technologies within a design process to identify and solve problems by creating new, useful or imaginative solutions. 
• Computational Thinker: Students develop and employ strategies for understanding and solving problems in ways that leverage the power of technological methods to develop and test solutions.