Skittles Graphing Activity

The students in Mrs. Lundy’s 1st grade class collected data and graphed it using Pixie.  They began the lesson with a snack size bag of Skittles.  The students had to open their bag and sort the Skittles by color.  Next they used a tally sheet to record their data.  Finally, they displayed their data in a Pixie graph using the paint bucket to fill the graph to the correct amount.  Mrs. Lundy created the template and dropped it into her students folders on Volume 2 so they could edit using their own data.  The teacher followed up by having the class analyze one of the student’s graphs.