Graphing Game: Australian Animals
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What's Inside
Play a fun graphing game! Find out how many Australian animals were seen at the zoo.
Choose this book when you want a short math read that gives children practice with graphs and counting. It helps them read simple data, compare amounts, and talk about what the graph shows. It works well for early elementary students who are learning how to make sense of information on a graph.
Teaching & Discussion Guide
Use this guide to turn Graphing Game: Australian Animals into a mini reading lesson at home or in the classroom.
Concepts & skills practiced
- Graphing
- Reading a graph
- Comparing quantities
- Counting data
- Australian animals
- Math vocabulary
Discussion Questions
- 1 Before reading, what do you think a graph can help us show about the Australian animals seen at the zoo?
- 2 As you look at the graph, how can you tell which animal was seen the most and which was seen the least?
- 3 What do the numbers on a graph tell us about the animals?
- 4 How would you explain the graph to someone who did not read it with us?
- 5 After reading, what kinds of things could we graph at home, in class, or at the zoo?
- 6 If you were adding one more animal to the graph, where would you put it and why?
Words to Learn
- graph
- A graph is a way to show information with pictures, bars, or lines.
- count
- To count means to say how many there are.
- number
- A number tells us how many.
- compare
- To compare means to look at two things and see how they are the same or different.
- more
- More means a bigger amount.
- less
- Less means a smaller amount.
- data
- Data is information we collect and show in a graph.
- Australia
- Australia is a country where these animals live.
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