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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Building Brilliant Bar Graphs

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Everything you need for a mini-unit on bar graphs is included in this lesson plan! It outlines three lessons and includes worksheets. Learners taste pretzels, shoot baskets (switching off hands), and grab candy, graphing results...
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Activity
David Pleacher

Candy Math Fun

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
Few things can motivate children to learn like the promise of a sweet and tasty treat. Given a bag of M&M®s, Skittles®, or other colorful candy, students first predict the contents of the bag before counting the pieces, creating a...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Tim and Pat at the Store: Bar Graphs

For Students 2nd - 3rd
Do you like candy? Tim and Pat go to the candy store every day after school. Can you use the chart to determine how much money they spend each day? Does one spend more than the other? 
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Valentine Candy Heart Bar Graph

For Students 3rd - 5th
For this Valentine candy heart bar graph worksheet, students complete a bar graph illustrating how many different colored candy hearts they received for Valentine's Day.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Favorite Candy Bar Graph

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students decide on six different types of candy bars to include in a data collection activity. Working in small groups, they survey a target group in a set amount of time. They access a Internet based graphing tool to create a bar graph...
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Worksheet
Yummy Math

Which Sweet Heart Candy Is the Best Deal?

For Students 5th - 8th Standards
Get the most Valentine's candy for your money with a fun math activity! After examining three deals for buying candy hearts in bulk, young mathematicians decide which deal is the best and use bar graphs to demonstrate their claim. They...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

What's in a Graph?

For Teachers 4th - 8th
How many yellow Skittles® come in a fun-size package? Use candy color data to construct a bar graph and a pie chart. Pupils analyze bar graphs of real-life data on the Texas and Massachusetts populations. As an assessment at the end of...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Counting Candies

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students count, sort, and classify jellybeans by color. They use their data to create a bar graph. Students are given a small bag of jellybeans, and a worksheet on Counting Candies Tally Chart. They work in small groups. Students are...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Build A Skittles Graph

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students explore graphing. In this graphing lesson, students sort Skittles candies and use the color groups to create a bar graph. Rubrics and extension activities are provided.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Graphing With Candy

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students gather information and interpret the results using a tally chart, a table, and a bar graph.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Raising the Bar While Hogging the Ham (Radio, That Is)

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Young scholars watch a Cyberchase video to determine the importance of using the correct scale when making bar graphs. They examine how to use bar graphs to gain information easily. They determine how to use bar graphs persuasively.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Math: Graphs and Their Symbols

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders examine different types of graphs and discover the meanings of the symbols used on them. After gathering data about themselves, their communities, and the world, they use that information to create graphs. Among the...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Graphing It Out

For Teachers 8th - 10th
Students create bar graphs.  In this graphing lesson, students explore the concepts of net pay, gross pay, income and expenses.  They create a bar graph to designate financial outlay during a specified period.
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Organizer
Curated OER

What Would You Spend Your Money On?: Graph

For Students 1st
In this bar graph worksheet, students will ask their classmates which object they would spend their money on: a toy, candy or a book. Then students will record the responses to complete the graph.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Yummy Bar Graph

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Pupils sort Valentine candy and create a bar graph with it.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Easter Bar Graph - (B)

For Students 4th - 6th
In this math review worksheet, students complete addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division problems and put their answers into a bar graph that represents calories. Students complete 13 problems and 1 graph.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Easter Bar Graph- A

For Students 2nd - 4th
In this Easter math worksheet, students first solve 13 problems with addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. Using the answers, students make a bar graph.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Easter Bar Graph - C

For Students 4th - 8th
In this math review worksheet, students complete addition, multiplication, division, and subtraction problems where each answer is inserted into a bar graph. Students complete 13 problems.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Easter Bar Graph - (E)

For Students 4th - 6th
In this math review worksheet, students complete addition, multiplication, division, and subtraction problems where each answer is put into an Easter bar graph. Students complete 13 problems.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Easter Bar Graph - (D)

For Students 4th - 6th
In this math review worksheet, students complete addition, multiplication, division, and subtraction problems where each answer is put into an Easter bar graph. Students complete 13 problems. 
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

M&M's Candies Worksheet Graph

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
In this graphing worksheet students will record data on a bar graph. Students will take a bag of M&M's and chart the colors they find inside this bag.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Data With Candy

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Young scholars, while utilizing the classroom and the computer lab with a bag of colored candy, gather and interpret data, calculate averages and draw conclusions and draw a bar graph. They estimate how many candies are in the bag, what...
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Lesson Plan
American Statistical Association

Candy Judging

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
Determine the class favorite. The statistics lesson plan has pupils collect, display, and analyze data. Pairs rank four kinds of candy based on their individual preferences. Working as an entire class, learners determine a way to display...
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Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

What's Your Favorite Chocolate Bar?

For Teachers 5th - 6th Standards
Young scholars complete a math survey. In this math graphs lesson, students complete a survey about their favorite candy bars. Young scholars create different kinds of graphs using Microsoft Excel to show their results.