Curated OER
On the Road Again": Moving People, Products, and Ideas
In this lesson plan learners learn how to identify modes of transportation and communication for moving people, products, and ideas from place to place. Students also study the advantages and disadvantages of different modes of...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Create Bar Graphs
Create a bar graph with the data given. Students receive immediate feedback and have the opportunity to try questions repeatedly, watch a video tutorial, or receive hints about creating bar graphs. CCSS.Math.Content.3.MD.B.3 Draw a...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Read Bar Graphs and Solve 2 Step Problems
Read and interpret a double bar graphs. Students receive immediate feedback and have the opportunity to try questions repeatedly, watch a video or receive hints. CCSS.Math.Content.3.MD.B.3 Draw a scaled picture graph and a scaled bar...
Primary Resources
Primary Resources: Tally and Bar Charts
Lots of good materials for teaching about tally marks and bar graphs.
Education Place
Houghton Mifflin: Eduplace: Make a Living Bar Graph
Student use simple data to line up in a living bar graph activity when they respond to simple questions in this lesson plan. They physically and visually represent the data. CCSS.Math.Content.3.MD.B.3 Draw a scaled picture graph and a...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Create Picture Graphs (Picture More Than 1)
Create and interpret picture graphs. Students receive immediate feedback and have the opportunity to try questions repeatedly, watch a video tutorial, or receive hints about how to create picture graphs. CCSS.Math.Content.3.MD.B.3 Draw a...
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Graphing Our Snack Mix: Review of Graphing
Second graders review how to make bar graphs, line plots, and pictographs by tallying the contents of snack mix and building graphs to show their data.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Great Golly Graphs
This lesson plan asks learners to create a survey project including graphs, questions, tables, and data analysis. It gives an assessment and ideas for remediation and extension as well as ways to manage behavior problems and reluctant...
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Let's Graph It!
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart has a week of mini lessons where students create bar graphs and pictographs. Students will collect data using tally marks and analyze graphs with discussion questions. Activotes are used...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Read Picture Graphs
Use picture graphs to solve word problems. Students receive immediate feedback and have the opportunity to try questions repeatedly, watch a video or receive hints. CCSS.Math.Content.3.MD.B.3 Draw a scaled picture graph and a scaled bar...
Government of Alberta
Learn Alberta: Math Interactives: Exploring Election Data
Using actual Alberta provincial election results, students have the opportunity to interpret election data using a variety of graph types. Pictographs, line graphs, bar graphs, circle graphs, and data tables are covered in this...
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Class Surveys and Graphs
Students love graphing data that they "own". In this plan, the class will select a type of graph and create it using a class survey frequency table. Included in this activity are videos of the class engaged in the activity and samples of...
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Data Analysis Using Graphing
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart allows students to analyze data using appropriate graphs, including pictographs, histograms, bar graphs, line graphs, circle graphs, and line plots introduced earlier, and using...
E-learning for Kids
E Learning for Kids: Math: Wizards: Graphs
Join the Magic Wandia Games and learn all about graphs!
Beacon Learning Center
Beacon Learning Center: Kinds of Graphs
An interactive web lesson introduces five types of graphs to students and allows them to practice matching the names to examples.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: What's in a Name: Graphing Lesson
A lesson that teaches students how to create and analyze a graph using the letters of their name. The lesson uses the book Chrysanthemum by Kevin Henkes (not included in the lesson plan) to start the discussion.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Thanksgiving Graphing
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students will interpret data from a bar graph and a pictograph. They will then create one of each on the Activboard. This flipchart includes links to websites and an Activote quiz.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Graphing Graphs
[Free Registration/Login Required] Standard: Constructs and Interprets simple bar graphs and pictographs with up to 5 columns using whole unit data.
PBS
Pbs: The Lowdown: Exploring Changing Obesity Rates Through Ratios and Graphs
In these KQED Lowdown infographics, explore how adult obesity rates in the United States, as measured by body mass index (BMI), have dramatically changed in the past half-century. A circular graph and a pictograph depict data by decade,...
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Using Graphs in History Class
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart covers the major types of graphs used in social studies such as bar graphs, line graphs, pie graphs, and pictographs. Information on graphs is followed by graphs dealing with salaries...
Illustrative Mathematics
Illustrative Mathematics: 3.oa, Md, Nbt Classroom Supplies
The purpose of this task is for students to solve problems involving the four operations and draw a scaled picture graph and a scaled bar graph to represent a data set with several categories. Aligns with 3.NBT.A.2;...
Beacon Learning Center
Beacon Learning Center: All the Parts
The activity investigates bar graphs. Students learn about all the parts of a graph.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: You Scream, I Scream, We All Scream for Ice Cream !
Fun and yummy lesson to do on a sunny spring afternoon. Have the students take a poll of their favorite choice of ice cream and create a bar graph showing the information. This lesson plan was created as a result of the Girls Engaged in...
BBC
Bbc: Representing Data
This BBC Math Bite tutorial for line graphs, pictograms, and frequency polygons features an exam in which students draw and interpret statistical diagrams.