This maths teaching pack for Key Stage Two gets the children to practise collecting and presenting information about some of the special things that can be observed and recorded in a family garden using block graphs.

The class can identify how to create scales for a block graph to match the range of data that has been collected about a specific topic to answer key questions about gardens.

Download this teaching pack including classroom activities and an interactive presentation to practise collecting and presenting information about some of the special things that can be observed and recorded in a family garden using block graphs

Activities in this teaching pack include worksheets to record how to transfer information from tables to matching block graphs to organise and present data about garden mammals, flowers and colours to interpret by answering some different key questions about the data.

The interactive presentation gets the children to explore how to how to organise and present data using a block graph about plants and mammals seen in a garden.

This lesson is part of a maths scheme of work to get the children to explain and model how to use block graphs to organise and present data and answer key questions about some of the different things that can be observed in a family garden. There are teaching activities for shared learning, differentiated worksheets to support independent learning and interactive presentations to introduce concepts and key skills.

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