Choose a time when no children will be on the play equipment. Take a picture of five popular pieces of playground equipment using your digital camera. (E.g. swings, slide, monkey bars, jungle gym and balance beam.) Upload the pictures into your computer's picture publishing software, and print them out on your printer. Use your marker to write the title "My Favorite Type of Playground Equipment" at the top of a large sheet of poster board. Use your marker and yardstick to draw four vertical lines an equal distance apart to make five columns. Tape a picture of a different piece of playground equipment at the top of each column.
Show your students the "My Favorite Type of Playground Equipment" graph. Point to each piece of equipment and ask the students the name, then write it under the picture with a marker. Ask your students to raise their hands and tell you the safety rules for each piece of equipment. Write the safety rules with a dry marker on the whiteboard.
Choose a time when no other children will be outside. Tell your students that the class will be going outside, and you will take a picture of them on their favorite piece of equipment as they follow the safety rules. Go over the safety rules on the board. Take your class to one piece of equipment at a time, and ask the students to raise their hands if this is their favorite piece of equipment. One at a time, invite each of the children who raised their hands to climb onto the equipment and show the class how to use it safely. Take a photo of each child as they show the safe way to use the equipment.
Take your class back inside the classroom and upload the pictures into your computer's photo publishing software. Print them out on your printer. Place two pieces of double sided tape onto the back of each photo as you pass them out to your students. Lay the graph on a table, then call up one student at a time and let them place their photo into the column for their favorite piece of playground equipment. Place the completed graph onto the bulletin board.