Instructor Notes:

For materials preparations, click ‘Back to Main Menu’ button and select ‘Getting Started – EDC Setup’.

Read Every Day Counts Teacher’s Guide, Kanter and Gillespie, Great Source, 2005 or 2012 edition, p. 44-45.

Involve the class in choosing 5 types of weather that occur in your location in fall, winter, and/or spring. If you choose the same five categories for October, January, and April weather graphs, it will be easier to compare the samples from the different seasons. In places where morning and mid-day weather patterns vary a great deal the class should probably decide to pick a consistent time to choose the day’s marker and title the graph Morning Weather or Afternoon Weather.

Asking, “What do you see?” or “What do you know about our weather in October so far?” may be enough to get children talking about the data. With only a few markers up, we can begin making comparisons using the language of more, less, greater, fewer, the same, and equal.