This week we are starting our first part of our Nature Kids Summer School Lessons for younger kids. This is a 4-week lesson plan that will fill the period between Lithia, June 21 and countdown to Lughnasadh, August 2. This year we will be focusing on how traditional methods of teaching actually impact life. Each lesson plan for the week will have a lesson about a standard subject, with vocabulary words, quiz, experiments, spell work with corresponding Deity work, and guided meditations. Please check back every week to follow along.Our first lesson in the summer Nature Kids Summer program is HERE. My oh my we are studying pie!!!! I'm not talking about the delicious dessert with a flaky crust and the filling of your choice. I'm talking about a pie chart. Pie charts have been around since the 1800s Reading a pie chart is an easy way to introduce percentages and ratios. In this lesson, we will be teaching an intro to pie charts. Pie Chart- is a special chart that uses "pie slices" to show relative sizes of data. Fraction- expresses a numerical quantity that is part of a whole thing Whole- means something complete. Percent- means parts per hundred. Pie charts have been around since the 1800s when they were used to illustrate statistics and maps. Florence Nightingale was the first to make the pie chart a popular method to keep track of calculations. A pie chart displays data, information, and statistics in an easy-to-read 'pie-slice' format. Each slice size tells you how much of one data element exists. The bigger the slice, the more of that particular data was gathered. A pie chart is an easy way to show a comparison. When items are presented on a pie chart, you can easily see which item is the most popular and which is the least popular. Pie charts are very widely used in the business world, in school, and at home. In this lesson, we will be teaching what the pie chart represents. The entire pie chart represents the percentage as a whole. Then each slice represents an individual percentage. The teacher will start to introduce pie charts to kids as early as first grade in elementary school. It is normally introduced through a story telling math problems. Then later on pie chart is used to teach us to learn percentages and ratios. The first part of the lesson is to ask your kids to have they seen graphs before. What are the purposes of graphs? Allow an open conversation about their thoughts on what a pie chart is. Once you feel that they have a bit of an understanding then it is time to review the vocabulary words. On a board or large poster, draw a simple whole circle. Ask students what the circular image looks like. Then explain how the whole circle represents the population at large. Explain to your kids that while pie charts are used to represent data as portions it is important to acknowledge the whole as its own entity. Then cut the pie chart into four sections. Guide students to compare the circle to a pie, with each “slice” representing a portion of the whole pie. Then explain to your kids what each slice represented. Once you feel that they have understood what each slice represents it is time to introduce percentages. The base of percentages is a part vs. whole game. The whole pie represents 100%. Explain that if a pie chart is divided evenly, each portion is the same. You have the option of dividing the whole 100% by the number of slices to equal the whole. You can also figure out the whole by adding each slice together. Have your kid draw a pie then divide it into slices. Then have them use the different techniques to figure out the percentages. HOMEWORK This project needs at least two people to participate, but no more than five. Ask each person what their favorite color is? Then create a pie chart from that information. When I look at a pie chart, I just go numb.
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As a mom of three boys who go to public school I started to notice that some things were not being taught in detail so I decided to create lessons for them. Many of these lessons cover science, history and of information about Paganism. I share crafts for the all different holidays and cultures as ways that they can learn and have fun at the same time.
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