The Elves and the Shoemakers Learning Resource - Theatre ...

Learning Objectives
• Children will explore questions relating to footwear that require the collection and analysis of
information.
• Children will collect, group, sort and record their findings in a range of ways, including using ICT.
• Children will use their recorded findings to draw conclusions from the information they have
collected.
• Children will apply previous learning in the creation of their chosen method of recording
information.
Vocabulary: Tally, table, pie chart, bar graph, pictogram, Venn diagram, Carroll diagram
Introduction
Ask the children to re-tell the story of The Elves and the Shoemakers. Point out that we don’t know exactly
what the shoes made by the elves were like. We don’t know what colour the leather they used was, or how
the shoes were made so they would stay on their owner’s feet. And, while that’s not important information
for the play, it is important for real shoe makers who want to make shoes that people will want to buy.
Main Activity
Early Primary: Lesson Plan 2
Subject links in the National Curriculum
Mathematics: Handling Data
Duration: 50 minutes
• Explain that by looking at the shoes we are wearing today we can sort them into groups. But that
we’ll need to decide how we are going to sort them. By colour? By the way they are fixed onto our
feet (laces/velcro/buckle/slip-on/zip)? Shiny/not shiny?
• Ask all the children to take off one of their shoes - if there are a number wearing the same style, put
a sticky label with the child’s name inside their shoe to avoid confusion or arguments!
• Choose a criteria and show the children how they can record the information as a tally on
whiteboards/paper. Explain that this information can be used to make a bar graph, pie chart or
pictogram all using ICT, or a hand drawn bar chart or table.
• Choose two criteria and show the children how they can record the information as a Venn diagram
using overlapping hoops on the carpet. The children could draw a Venn or a Carroll diagram to
record their information.
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