Student outcomes
Students will:
- solve problems as they sort, compare, and contrast items
- display and share information using the Venn diagram as a graphic organizing tool
- explain the reasons for their solutions
- work cooperatively together
Lesson Plan
- Assemble 3 pink objects, 3 yellow objects, and 1 pink and yellow object along with two skipping ropes. The objects can be different shapes and sizes.
- Place the two skipping ropes on the floor, in the shape of circles, not touching, and assemble students on the floor, sitting around the hoops.
- Share the 3 pink objects and the 3 yellow objects and ask the students to help you sort the objects into two sets.
- Help students place the pink items within one hula hoop and the yellow items within the other, urging students to discuss their thoughts as they decide which circle the items belong within.
- Show the students the pink and yellow object (such as a pink and yellow square), and ask students which set it would go in. Encourage students to think about as they work on a solution to the problem of what to do with an object that could go in either set.
- Overlap the two skipping ropes forming a two-circle Venn diagram. Demonstrate how the pink and yellow object can now fit in the middle section.
- Using the index cards, help the students label each section: Pink objects, Yellow objects, and Pink and Yellow things.
- Using a sentence strip, help the students decide on a name for their Venn diagram and share the pen to write the title.
- Introduce the term Venn diagram, and encourage the students to think of ways that the Venn diagram could be used as a tool to sort various items.
- Print off the Venn Diagram Graphic Organizer.
- Ask students to draw in the objects they sorted and labeled on their worksheets.
- Using the Interactive Venn Diagram, show students how a Venn diagram can also be used to record the work they did and display the information to share with others. (They will use words rather than objects on this Venn diagram.) Print out and display the Venn diagram.