This week we kicked off our new school year with some fun learning activities. One of them involved sharing details about our summer (data) in the form of a glyph (face). Each part of our glyph (face) represents different information. For example, our hair represents where we went this summer (our glyph shows hair is blue if we didn’t go anywhere, red if we stayed inside Canada and yellow if we went outside Canada) and our eyes represent a word to describe our summer (if our summer was fun our eyes are black, if it was uneventful our eyes are blue, if it was exciting our eyes are brown and if our summer was exhausting our eyes are green). Once our glyphs were completed and displayed, we walked around and made observations, looking for similarities and differences between the glyphs. We recorded those observations on cue cards and then shared with the class. It was great to see students so engaged in the activity and so willing to think critically.
CRITERIA:
- I collect and record data about myself
- I pictorially represent that data by using a legend
- I analyse my data by looking for similarities and differences between the different glyphs