Texas TEKS K.1.F

ScienceKindergartenScientific and engineering practices

The Standard

record and organize data using pictures, numbers, words, symbols, and simple graphs

Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills for Science

Teacher's field guide

What Students Need to Do: Students collect observations or counts and make a record with drawings, numerals, labels, or agreed symbols. They sort the information into a simple chart or picture graph so others can read it.
What Mastery Looks Like: A student can count a small set, enter the result in the correct place, and add a matching picture or label. The finished graph has clear categories, one mark per item, and totals that match the data.
Common Misconceptions: Students may draw decorative pictures instead of recording one mark for each item. They may place marks in the wrong category, skip items, count an item twice, or think a taller column means larger objects.
How to Assess It: Give each student a cup with 3 red and 5 blue counters. Ask, “Record the counters in a two-category picture graph, then circle the group with more.”

Lesson moves

Give pairs a tray of buttons; students sort by color, tally each group with stickers, and build a two-column picture graph.
Show a class weather chart and ask, “What does each symbol mean, and which weather happened most?” Students write or draw evidence.
Play Data Relay: students draw a category card, count matching objects, and place that many cubes on a class graph.
Survey how classmates travel to school, record each answer with one symbol, then compare the graph’s columns.

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