{"id":3396,"date":"2017-09-20T15:20:57","date_gmt":"2017-09-20T19:20:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/etechplace.org\/clough\/?p=3396"},"modified":"2017-11-10T15:30:32","modified_gmt":"2017-11-10T19:30:32","slug":"4th-graphing-virginia-resources","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/etechplace.org\/clough\/?p=3396","title":{"rendered":"4th Grade Graphing Virginia Resources"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/etechplace.org\/clough\/?attachment_id=3398\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3398\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/etechplace.org\/clough\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Capture-300x257.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"257\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-3398\" srcset=\"https:\/\/etechplace.org\/clough\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Capture-300x257.png 300w, https:\/\/etechplace.org\/clough\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Capture.png 421w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Fourth graders at Laburnum Elementary have been learning about graphing in Math (SOL4.14) and Virginia natural resources in Science (SOL4.9), so today students in Ms. Waltz&#8217;s class researched and graphed Virginia products.  First I shared two websites for research: <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/document\/d\/1D1vep3bgBYv4ITWIDpg14f5MWB90R2MpNpZo-lfZryE\/pub\">Virginia Farm Products<\/a> &#038; <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/document\/d\/1EM9sdK3ERvcbwqqBXbVYqQ3gfO51SRRA6vr6BzrQV4Q\/pub\">Virginia Minerals<\/a>. These sites provide the amount in dollars or tons for each resource. We discussed why the units were different (<em>it wouldn&#8217;t make sense to compare farm products in tons because of their different sizes: cows weigh a lot more than chickens<\/em>). Next we opened a Google spreadsheet and wrote &#8220;Product&#8221; in Column A and &#8220;Amount in (<em>tons or dollars<\/em>)&#8221; in Column B. They had to choose the unit that corresponded with their products.  Then they typed three products of their choice in Column A and entered the amount of each in Column B. Now that they had entered their data, it was time to graph it. Google Sheets has a new &#8220;Explore&#8221; feature that can be accessed by clicking the star shaped icon in the bottom right corner. They chose a color scheme from the pop up menu and added the graph to their spreadsheet.  I also showed them how to change the color of the bars (<em>click on a bar and choose a color from the side menu<\/em>). Finally we shared our spreadsheets on Schoology so we could learn from each other.  Click <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/document\/d\/1xya_1f3fCmJxXjUJY3GUQlnCqkm7CGZ2hl4WmXS89F8\/pub\">here<\/a> to see all their graphs (<em>UPDATE: I did the same lesson with Ms. Dowling&#8217;s class on 9\/27, so those have been added as well<\/em>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fourth graders at Laburnum Elementary have been learning about graphing in Math (SOL4.14) and Virginia natural resources in Science (SOL4.9), so today students in Ms. Waltz&#8217;s class researched and graphed Virginia products. First I shared two websites for research: Virginia Farm Products &#038; Virginia Minerals. 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