Making and Reading Charts

Activities

 

(Sample ideas relate to a unit about diary farming)

Identify sources of charts about dairy farming in printed or electronic sources.

Display and read charts with information about dairy farming.

Make flow charts of activities or processes related to dairy farming.

Make "T" charts on which to list and make comparisons.

Make charts showing circular or repetetive patterns related to dairy farming.

Chart growing seasons of various plants found on a dairy farm.

Chart weather affecting farmers. Compare attitudes of farmers to people in other occupations as they relate to the weather.

Compare dairy farms with other types of farms

List jobs of farm family members

Find, read, or create charts showing classification systems

Read and make Venn diagrams to show relationships between and among items related to dairy farming.

List ways children can help

Make a web showing interdependence

Make charts showing dairy products

Make charts showing interdependence

Match parent and baby animals

Photograph various types of farms

Transparencies

Webs of interdependence