Pet Monster Glyphs - Data Management

One of the activities our class of grade 2s & 3s has completed in the Data Management strand was creating Pet Monster Glyphs. According to the Guide for Effective Instruction "a glyph is a pictorial display in which colours and/or symbols represent information. A key provides instructions to students on how to complete their glyphs". page  17.

Grade 2 and 3 students used the key to create their own Pet Monster and then used the key again to try to find out whose pet monster was whose. It was a nice first week activity for getting to know one another. Here are some samples:



      

           

The key is posted below, but isn't formatting the way I'd like :) After using the code to create their Pet Monster, students added details (notice that one of the Pet Monsters has their own pet on a leash?)

Chocolate Ice Cream	Like A Different Treat Better
Rounded Head	Zig Zag Head

PET MONSTER GLYPH KEY

Girl	Boy
Green paper	Blue Paper

 

 

 

Love to Read	Don't Love Reading Yet
Straight Body Sides	Wiggly Body Sides

 

# of Family Members = Number of Eyes

 

 

Like Pets	Don’t Like Pets
Big Mouth	Small Mouth

Prefer Outdoors	Prefer Indoors
Big Nose	Small Nose

 

Like Math	Not Yet
Round Body Bottom	Straight Body Bottom

# of Pets = Number of Ears

 

 

 

Happy to Be Back to School	Not Happy to be Back to School
Waving hands on arms	Arms and hands down

  

Like Sports	Not Yet
Zig Zag Stripes on Arms	Squiggly Stripes on Arms

 

Age = Number of Legs and Feet

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A glyph is a pictorial display in which colours and/or symbols represent

information. A key provides instructions to students on how to complete

their glyphs.