Activities Summary

In this activity, students will:

• Read information from various graphs on the Workplace and Essential Skills
• Select three Technical Sectors of interest and match a list of Authentic Workplace skills to the Essential Skills (in pairs)
• Create a variety of graphs based on the data provided and collected on Essential Skills
• Identify trends in the data collected

Prior Knowledge

• Essential Skills
• Use of tally charts
• Calculating percents
• Determining ratios
• Reading information from a variety of graphs
• Interpreting numbers written in various forms (i.e. translating 24.2 thousand into 24,200)
• Methods for constructing circle graphs, bar graphs, pictographs, line graphs

Teaching Planning Notes

• Review assignment including prior knowledge required and assessment tools
• Provide students with an Essential Skills list including subcategories from Teacher Resource Section at the end of this binder
• Provide envelopes at the front of the room, one for each technical sector with multiple copies of Profile Packages
• Copy job descriptions on a separate sheet than the Match Maker activity so that the sheets may be reused in the future
• Provide students with a 100 point circle for drawing a circle graph (see MAT 2L Course Profile – Unit 3 pg. 22)
• Provide rulers and graph paper for creating bar graphs, pictographs and
  line graphs
• Provide chart paper or poster board for displaying all three graphs.
• Remind students that their graphs must be large enough so that they may be easily read by the class
• Working Out is an optional activity in which students draw a line graph

Assessment and Evaluation of Student Achievement

Activities and Evaluation Materials

• Graphing Essential Assignment
• Read All About It Worksheet
• Match Maker packages for each technical sector (Skills List, Job Descriptions and Answer Key)
• Graph It All Worksheet
• 100 point circle template (see MAT 2L Course Profile – Unit 3 pg. 22)
• Working Out Worksheet (optional)
• Checklist and Assessment Tool