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Interactive
PBS

The Lowdown — U.S. Gun Homicides: Visualizing the Numbers

For Students 7th Standards
Is gun violence a big issue in America? Pupils explore gun deaths by type, race, and age group in a Math at the Core: Ratios interactive. The class tries to determine whether America is a safe place to live and use bar graphs and pie...
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Assessment
Illustrative Mathematics

Random Walk III

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
Don't cross the line; just walk along it. Scholars investigate a scenario in which a person starts at zero on a number line, then moves left or right depending on a flip of a coin. They determine the number of outcomes for six flips,...
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Activity
US Department of Commerce

My Dream Home

For Teachers 2nd Standards
Dream big or go home. After analyzing a bar graph on the number of bedrooms in US homes derived from census data, scholars design their own dream homes. They cut out two-dimensional shapes from construction paper to create models of...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Blank Bar Graph- Intervals of 3

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this bar graph worksheet, students use the blank bar graph grid to display data. The interval is counting by 3. There are no problems given.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Bar Graphs 1

For Teachers 4th
For this mathematics worksheet, 4th graders create a frequency table and a bar graph illustrating the results of the problem described. Then they find the average of the hours and favorite color for each word problem.
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Unit Plan
National Security Agency

Line Graphs: Gone Graphing

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Practice graphing and interpreting data on line graphs with 36 pages of math activities. With rationale, worksheets, and assessment suggestions, the resource is a great addition to any graphing unit.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Graphing

For Students 5th
In this graphing worksheet, 5th graders identify and graph 20 different problems on the 3 different graphs shown on the sheet. First, they use the tally of callers organized by the school to complete the three different types of graphs....
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Lesson Planet Article
Curated OER

Graphing Lesson Plans

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
By using hands-on graphing lesson plans students can learn how to collect data, and display the information using graphs.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Dealing with Data

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders collect and analyze data.  In the seventh grade data analysis lesson, 7th graders explore and/or create frequency tables, multiple bar graphs, circle graphs, pictographs, histograms, line plots, stem and leaf plots, and...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Beginning Graphs in MS Excel

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students practice creating graphs in Microsoft Excel. In this technology lesson, students conduct a random survey and collect data. Students use the Microsoft Excel program to create a bar graph of the data.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Bar Graphs

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders visually represent and analyze data using a frequency table. They recognize what values in a data set are bigger by looking at a bar graph and answer questions about certain bar graphs and what they represent. Students...
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Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

What's Your Favorite Chocolate Bar?

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

Graph a Panther's Diet

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Pupils examine the diet of panthers. In this interpreting data instructional activity, students collect data on the panther's diet and chart the data in bar and pie graphs.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Deciding Which Type of Graph is Appropriate

For Students 5th - 8th
In this graphing instructional activity, students read about line, bar, and pie graphs and then determine which graph is the best way to express data results. This instructional activity has 3 short answer questions.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Grasping Graphs

For Students 7th - 8th
In this grasping graphs worksheet, students solve and complete 3 different types of problems. First, they graph the data described and select the appropriate graph type. Then, students identify the independent and dependent variable. In...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Interpreting Graphs

For Teachers 5th - 7th
Students investigate graphs. In this graphing lesson, students create a graph regarding the population of California. Students extrapolate answers concerning the data set.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Organizing Data Using Tables and Graphs

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Learners create graphs and tables, as well as interpret and make inferences from the data shown to determine when and where graphs and tables are most useful.
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Organizer
Curated OER

Are You the Youngest, Oldest Or Middle Child?: Graph

For Students 1st
In this family order graph worksheet, students will ask their classmates if they are the youngest, oldest, or middle child in their family and record the responses to complete the graph.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Pizza Possibilities

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers create and interpret line plots, bar graphs, and circle graphs. The lesson assumes mastery of conversions from fraction to decimal to percent, construction of angles, and at least an introduction to graphs displaying data.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Data With Candy

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students, 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
Curated OER

This is the Way We Go To School

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders create and utilize a graph using the Excel computer program. They gather data regarding how the students get to school, tally the numbers for the class, and create a bar graph on paper and using Excel.
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Lesson Plan
NOAA

Biological Oceanographic Investigations – Keep Away

For Teachers 5th - 6th Standards
As of 2015, there are 53,481 oil wells in the Gulf of Mexico. Scholars determine how species diversity is impacted based on the ecosystem's distance from a drilling platform.  It focuses on finding the mean of data sets and creating bar...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Reading and Interpreting Graphs

For Teachers 7th - 9th
In this reading and interpreting graphs worksheet, learners answer 8 word problems that involve reading information from a graph about pizzas. Students then review a second graph centered on music and answer 12 questions.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Charts and Graphs

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders interpret data into graphs and percentages.  In this organizing data lesson, 5th graders discuss bar, circle and line graphs.  Students complete bar graph and apply probability using the results.