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Howard Hughes Medical Institute

Spreadsheet Tutorial 3: Column Graphs, Error Bars, and Standard Error of the Mean

For Students 9th - 12th
There's absolutely no error in using the tutorial! Learners use spreadsheets to create column or bar graphs with error bars. They also learn how to calculate the standard error of the mean in the tutorial. This is the third installment...
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Curated OER

Five Colors Bar Graph-Make a Bar Graph

For Students 3rd - 5th
Two worksheets are provided here that contain the same information but ask different questions. The first worksheet has the learner draw the graph themselves before answering the questions that follow, and the second worksheet has the...
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Pace University

Grade 7 Earth Day Statistics with Circle and Bar Graphs

For Teachers 7th Standards
Take a tiered approach to studying waste. The activity uses Earth Day to present differentiated instruction around using circle and bar graphs. Each group gets a cube based on their tiers and works collaboratively as well as individually...
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Curated OER

Data Collection

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students write a journal exercise that relates to pets. They collect information from each other in order to practice making and interpreting bar graphs. They Continue building different kinds of graphs with the group.
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Curated OER

Bar Graphs

For Teachers 6th - 9th
In this bar graph worksheet, students read about making quality bar graphs and they make a bar graph using given data. They answer 5 questions about their graph.
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Curated OER

Olympic Bar Graphs

For Teachers 6th - 9th
In this Olympic bar graph worksheet, young scholars pick a sport from the 2004 Olympic games and find data from the Olympic web page. They graph the scores (times, distance, or speed) and the medals. They answer questions about the...
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Curated OER

Graphing the Forecast-Line Graph or Bar Graph?

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Students explore bar and line graphs. In this data collection, graphing, and weather lesson plan, students compare bar and line graphs and discuss which type of graph would be most appropriate for displaying a ten day weather forecast....
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Curated OER

Cosmic Bar Graphs

For Students 8th - 10th
In this cosmic bar graph activity, students solve 2 problems using given bar graphs that plot the number of galaxies vs. the galaxy type and the number of gamma-ray bursts vs. the burst classification. Students find the fraction of...
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Curated OER

Fast Food Survey Using Bar Graphs

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders create a bar graph to pictorically represent the data collected from a survey of students. They use Excel to electronically create the graphs and data tallies. They then interpret their data using sentences to explain.
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Curated OER

How Does Your Animal Move?---Class Bar Graph

For Students 2nd - 3rd
Animals move in interesting ways! Get your young learners to examine various types of animal movement in this group graphing activity. Although directions are not explicit, it seems learners are assigned an animal and categorize the...
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Curated OER

Survey of Height

For Students 4th - 8th
In this data collection worksheet, learners survey the heights of their fellow classmates, organize their data in a data table, and create a bar graph from their data. Once bar graph is completed, students complete 2 short answer...
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Curated OER

Iron For Breakfast

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders are challenged to use scientific thinking, they experiment and observe which objects are attracted to a magnet. Pupils use the evidence to construct an explanation as to what common property the objects attracted to a...
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Curated OER

How Soluble Is It?

For Students 4th - 6th
Is sugar more soluble than salt? Experiment with water and solubility with an elementary science activity. After interpreting data from a bar chart, fifth graders use different types of sugar to determine if the size of sugar particles...
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Curated OER

Rubber Band Banza

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders review ideas about sound and vibration to make their own stringed instrument. They review what a pictograph and bar graph are. Pupils conduct a survey within the classroom to choose the four favorite string instruments and...
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Use a Graph: Measure Fish

For Students 2nd - 3rd Standards
Something's fishy here! Use the bar graph provided to determine the length of each fish shown. Small cartoon fish make this an engaging learning exercise for young learners. There are six questions provided. 
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Curated OER

Physical Science: Festival of Bubbles

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Investigate bubbles through the use of scientific inquiry. Pupils blow bubbles using several methods and measure the resulting bubble print. Measurements are recorded on a data table and transferred to a bar graph. Results are discussed...
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Curated OER

Trash to Gas

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students experiment with biomass materials as alternative energy sources. For this biomass material lesson, students participate in an experiment with cow manure to determine how it can be used as an energy source. They record their data...
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Illustrative Mathematics

Weather Graph Data

For Teachers K - 2nd Standards
Teaching young mathematicians about collecting and analyzing data allows for a variety of fun and engaging activities. Here, children observe the weather every day for a month, recording their observations in the form of a bar graph....
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Curated OER

Curious Clouds

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders explore clouds. They read The Cloud Book by Tomie dePola. Students sort the cloud pictures into three categories. Students create a graph using the cloud pictures. They use Excel to create a bar graph.
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Curated OER

The Geology of a Snicker’s Bar: Tectonic Plates

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students explore the layers of the Earth using a Snicker's bar. In this science lesson, students identify the parts of the Snicker's bar and identify which layer of the Earth the parts of the candy bar would represent. Students discuss...
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Curated OER

Animal Runners

For Students 4th
In this collecting data worksheet, 4th graders use the data shown on how fast 6 animals can run to create a bar graph. Students follow the instructions on 3 directives for their bar graphs and answer 1 short answer question.
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Curated OER

Applied Science - Science and Math Lab

For Teachers 1st - 6th
Students make a prediction. For this applied science lesson, students guess the number of items in a jar. Students create a bar graph to show the predictions and the actual amounts.
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Curated OER

ELECTRICITY 1

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders examine the importance of electricity to their everyday lives, practice plotting and interpreting data on a bar graph, and reflect in their journals about how their lives would change without electricity.
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Curated OER

Endangered Species

For Students 9th - 12th
In this geography worksheet, high schoolers identify how to manipulate data on a range of endangered species. They create a bar graph of endangered animals from Africa, Asia, Australia, North America, or South America. Students use a...

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