Today we'll do a graphing activity showing how much produce was harvested from the garden yesterday and donated to the Berkeley Food Pantry.
A bar graph is a great pictorial (like a picture) way to show how much you have of something and of what type.
*Today we'll sort our vegetables by type and measure how much we have of each.
Think of things you have sorted and counted...
The vertical axis will show the "measuring" part of the graph along the side (going up and down).
I decided to measure our harvest in "bunches" which is the same amount as a handful (it's not exact, but in this case, it's okay to estimate!).
What are some other ways we could measure what we grow?
...by weight in pounds?
...by each individual leaf?
...by handfuls?
The horizontal axis (along the bottom) will show the type or name of each vegetable.
This is the GIANT bar graph, just the veggies!
What do we have the most of?
What do we have the least of?
This is the bar graph with the axis labels.
Vertical (along the side) = Number of bunches
Horizontal (along the bottom) = Type of produce
It was really fun to make this bar graph out of the actual vegetables!
...I wonder what else you could make a bar graph out of?
Could you graph the number of red, green, blue, and yellow legos?
How about the number of different types of shoes?
You could even graph the number of Plant Parts you have!
(how many roots, stems, leaves, flowers, fruits, and seeds?)
Activity: Lay out your objects in a bar graph!
*I used my computer to turn our vegetable graph into a digital graph:
(it's a little easier to see and tell what kind of produce we have and how many bunches we have of it!)
Great job today Mathematicians, and Happy Earth Day to Everyone, Everywhere!
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