2nd Grade World's Deserts Graphs & Charts (Google Spreadsheet)

Incorporating Graphs/Charts (Math) with Biomes (Science)

My second grade class has been learning about biomes for the last month. I decided to have my students create a graph or chart that compares the number of deserts in each continent. I shared a Google document that stated two objectives: 

The Google document also had a link to the Survival World website that listed all the deserts in each continent. 

Steps in Creating Their Graphs or Charts:

1. Open the Google document and visit the Survival World website to find out how many deserts there are in each continent
2. Create a Google spreadsheet 
3. Create a table that lists the continents and the number of deserts in the continent
4. Go to 'Insert' then 'Chart'
5. Open Google Earth and search for 5 deserts
6. Take a screenshot of one desert (command+shift+4 for the Mac) and insert it into a cell on the spreadsheet
7. Open Google Earth and find 

Example of Student Work 

Here is what one of my students created.