Curated OER
Tim and Pat - At the Store
In this pie chart activity, students use the pie chart to add the amount of time Tim and Pat spend buying candy each day of the week. Students answer 2 questions about the table.
Curated OER
Jim, Tony, and Frank - The School Fundraiser
In this bar graph worksheet, students use the horizontal bar graph to count how much money each student collected for their fundraiser. Students answer 10 questions.
Curated OER
The Bread Shop
In this bar graphs worksheet, learners study the bar graph to count the money Adam made during each day. Students answer 10 questions.
Curated OER
Cindy and Linda - Selling Lemonade
In this pie charts worksheet, learners use the pie chart to count how many glasses of Lemonade were sold by Cindy and Linda. Students complete the table and answer 3 questions.
Curated OER
Tim and Pat - At the Store
In this bar graphs worksheet, students use the bar graph to add how much time Tim and Pat spend buying candy each week. Students complete the table and answer 3 questions.
Curated OER
Jim, Tony and Frank - The School Fundraiser
In this bar graphs learning exercise, students use the bar graph to count how much money students collected during a weekend fundraiser. Students answer 10 questions.
Curated OER
Pictograph Activity
In this pictograph worksheet, students learn to read a pictograph and answer questions based on the data. Students then draw two of their own pictographs using the given information and answer questions based on graphs.
Curated OER
Student Graph for the Mixed-Up Chameleon
In these graphing worksheets, students ask their classmates which animal they would like to be. Students then tally their numbers and graph the data.
Shodor Education Foundation
Shodor Interactivate: Lesson: Reading Graphs
Presents an introductory lesson to teach students how to read and plot graphs and determine functions based on graphs.
The Franklin Institute
Frankin Institute Online: Group Graphing
This site from The Franklin Institute explores how to make a simple graph using a spreadsheet to portray survey data. It also gives a set of interesting sports-related web sites so that students can get statistical inforamtion.
Read Works
Read Works: Genre Studies: Informational Text Kindergarten Unit: Labeled Diagrams
[Free Registration/Login Required] Lesson uses Bats by Gail Gibbons to teach students how to identify facts learned from labeled diagrams within an informational text. Ideas for direct teaching, guided practice, and independent practice...
US Department of Education
Nces Kids: Create an Xy Graph
This is where you can find a step by step explanation of how to create an XY graph. When you finish each step just click the next tab and you will find the next set of instructions.
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
The Math Forum: Urban Systemic Initiative/oceans of Data
This site includes questions related to reading and understanding graphs. There are links on this site to lesson plans, benchmarks, and other webpages all of which mostly center about probability and statistics.
Other
The Topic: Charts and Graphs
Brief descriptions of charts and graphs, followed by links to larger sites on the same subject.
McGraw Hill
Glencoe: Using Graphs to Understand Data Quiz
This is a quiz with five quick questions to check your knowledge of how to use graphs to understand data. It is self-checking.
Rice University
Rice University: Cynthia Lanius: Interpreting Graphs: The Hot Tub
The graph of the water level of a hot tub is presented and students are asked to tell the story of how the water level changes. Explanations of slope and functions accompany the problem.
Fun Brain
Funbrain: What's the Point?
Challenge your graph-reading skills. Levels of difficulty are available.
McGraw Hill
Glencoe: Interpreting Data Quiz
This is a quiz with five quick questions to check your understanding of how to interpret data. It is self checking.
McGraw Hill
Glencoe: Collecting and Analyzing Data Quiz
This site is a quiz with five quick questions to check your understanding of how to collect and analyze data. It is self checking.