Instead of using surveys this year to get to know your students, try incorporating glyphs into your classroom! Glyphs are pictorial forms of data collection. This glyph is a fun way in which to connect math to the Back to School Get-to-Know you activities.

Students color and draw on their glyph according to the directions on the direction page. Then, students are able to read the glyphs and collect data about the topics for the glyph. This glyph is focused on general get-to-know you topics - favorite color, family information, hobbies etc...

Once glyphs are completed, students should find ways to display the class data - bar graphs, pie graphs, pictographs, tables, etc.... I like to assign groups to one specific data set. For easy data collection and a cute display, hang up all glyphs on a bulletin board.

Another activity would be to write facts from the glyphs. On sentence strips. For example,
About half of the class loves pizza.

Lastly, this is a good way for students to introduce each other to the class! They have to use the glyph to figure out information to their partner.


NOTE: This is a part of a bigger file called GLYPHS GALORE. It includes three glyphs and tons of graphs, tables, and line plots for students to display their data. Check it out!

Bumblin' Back to School Glyph by a TEACHER on a MISSION is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.


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