I created the "skeleton" of the pictograph for the students and then together we created the pictograph using data we created from polling the class about our favorite ice cream. I kept it simple giving students three choices, chocolate, vanilla and other. Each ice cream cone on the graph equaled two. Making a 1/2 cone was interesting. (We put a box over half of the cone and filled the box with white.) We put the "guts" into the pictograph. The students watched me on the big screen and they did the same on their computers. They were delighted with their graphs.
We collected new data for each student to create their own pictograph. We did this in about 20 minutes. Each student picked a topic and two choices to put with a category of other. I open the smart software and each student turned on their clicker. I put the topic and choices on the page and the students voted. When we were done each child had a bar graph with their data. They turned that data into a pictograph. This time they did the skeleton along with the guts. :)
