KidPix Pictographs

KidPix Pictographs

About the station:

I completed this assignment on my own. Each part had rather clear step by step instructions that were easy to follow. We were instructed to take a poll of student's favorite sports in a class size of 22 people. We were to make a table with five different sports on it (basketball, baseball, football, volleyball, and soccer), and tally the students favorite under the correct sport. From there we took the results and made a pictograph out of our data using KidPix. Finally, I made discussion questions for the students.

For the second part of the activity, we were instructed to create a snowman glyph using KidPix. We answered questions by adding features to our snowman. For example, "If you are a girl, draw a blue hat on your snowman. If you are a boy, draw a red hat on your snowman".

My Work:


Here is a snapshot of the Microsoft Word document I created to tally the favorite sports among the 22 students. As you can see there were 6 tallies for basketball, 5 tallies for baseball, 4 tallies for football, 3 tallies for volleyball, and 4 tallies for soccer.




I then used the program KidPix to create this pictograph. Each basketball, baseball, football, volleyball, and soccer ball represents one student. The pictograph is just another way to let the students view and organize their data collected.


After completing the pictograph, I made some questions for discussion to go along with the data.

1. What sport has the most tallies?
- Basketball
2. What sport has the least tallies?
- Volleyball
3. If we were going to choose one sport to play at recess, what would be the best choice? Why? -Basketball would be the best choice because more people like basketball than any other sport.

4. If we play the favorite sport for half of recess, what would be the next best choice for the second half of recess?
-Baseball, because it has the next highest number of tallies.


The last part of the assignment was to create a snowman glyph using KidPix. I began by drawing 3 circles for the body of the snowman. Because I am a girl, I was instructed to draw a blue hat on the snowman. Each additional part of the snowman was some characteristic of me. For example, how many people were in my family, if I have pets, my age, etc. I thought this was a very creative idea to have each child make their own unique snowman.

As for my follow up questions....

With the snowman glyph and the favorite sports activity, what does that show us about how unique each person is? Do all of these differences in people show that no two people are exactly alike?
- Individuality is very important and these two activities show this. Each person is very unique and the differences in these pictures show differences in people.

I really liked the idea behind this activity. Students can collect data and organize it through helpful programs such as KidPix. However, I don't know that I would use this site with my elementary students. I thought drawing the snowman was a little difficult because you cannot rearrange the items drawn on the page. Everything must be exact and there is little room for error. Overall the idea of the activity was great but I would personally choose a different program.