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Unit Plan
Education Development Center

Tune in to Learning: Reading Charts and Graphs

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
Practice graph reading skills with these exercises and companion tutorials.
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eBook
Math Planet

Math Planet: Pre Algebra: Circle Graphs

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about circle graphs or pie charts through examples and a video lesson.
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Unit Plan
PBS

Pbs: The Lowdown: u.s. Gun Homicides: Visualizing the Numbers

For Students 6th - 8th
Explore firearm deaths in the United States in 2010 by type, race, and age group in this interactive from KQED. In the accompanying classroom activity, students are presented with a simple question: Is America a safe place to live? In...
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Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: Charts Handling Data

For Teachers 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] Reading graphs fit together with this engaging, colorful flipchart analyzing pie charts, bar graph, percents, and fractions.
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Lesson Plan
PBS

Wnet: Thirteen: Circle Graph Analysis and Creation

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This site, which is provided for by WNET, gives a great way to practice using circle graphs through these exercises. One is analyzing a pie graph from the Census Bureau and the other creating pie charts using government data.
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Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: Using Graphs in History Class

For Teachers 5th - 8th Standards
[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...
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Activity
Math Is Fun

Math Is Fun: Definition of Bar Graph

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
Get the definition for a bar graph. Then, select the link "here's more" and use the interactive graph to display data as a bar graph, line graph or pie chart. The finished graph may be printed.
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Interactive
US Department of Education

Nces: Create a Graph: Kids Zone

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
Make your own pie, bar, line, area or XY graph with this interactive tool. Look for examples of graphs already created from data collected by the National Center for Education Statistics. Complete with a graphing tutorial.
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Other

Tulpehocken Area School District: Graphing and Analyzing Scientific Data

For Students 4th - 8th
Student instructional activity with explanation of pie, bar, and line graphs, the parts of a graph, and the definition of mean, median, and mode. This summary is followed by an exercise for each type of graph within a scientific context.
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Interactive
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

Nctm: Illuminations: Circle Grapher

For Students 9th - 10th
A computer applet that will draw any circle graph with student's data input.
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Activity
Varsity Tutors

Varsity Tutors: Hotmath: Practice Problems: Circle Graphs

For Students 9th - 10th
Two problems present practice creating a circle graph from a data table. Both are given with each step to the solution cleverly revealed one at a time. You can work each step of the problem then click the "View Solution" button to check...
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Graphic
The Franklin Institute

Frankin Institute Online: Group Graphing

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
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.
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Website
American Museum of Natural History

American Museum of Natural History: O Logy: The Tree of Life

For Students 3rd - 8th
Learn about the diversity of species on Earth by exploring a cladogram, a graph-like tree of life that illustrates relatedness among species. Includes instructions for reading cladograms and a pie chart that summarizes the percentages of...
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Activity
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: A Recipe for Air

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Students use M&M's to create a pie graph that expresses their understanding of the composition of air. The students discuss why knowing this information is important to engineers.
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Interactive
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Energy in a Roller Coaster Ride

For Students 9th - 10th
This interactive roller coaster ride produced for Teacher's Domain illustrates the relationship between potential and kinetic energy. As the coaster cars go up and down the hills and around the loop of the track, a pie chart shows...
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Graphic
National Geographic

National Geographic: What the World Eats

For Students 9th - 10th
This interactive website offers pie charts showing what the world eats and what 22 different countries eat. It also allows you to choose by year as well. These include food groups, calories, and grams overall and per category.
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Graphic
Curated OER

University of Texas: Maps: Major Ethnic Groups in Central Asia

For Students 9th - 10th
Here's a great map that shows all the different ethic groups in Central Asia with pie graphs for each country showing the percentage of the groups.
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Graphic
Curated OER

U. Of Texas: Yemen: Distribution of Ethnoreligious Groups and Key Tribal Areas

For Students 9th - 10th
An interesting map showing the distribution of the major religious groups, the tribal areas, and pie graphs showing the percentages of ethnic groups and religious sects. From the Perry-Castaneda Collection.
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Handout
Richland Community College

Richland Community College: Stats Graphs Defined

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Richland Community College provides a glossary of many terms that are needed in order to understand statistics graphs and charts. Each of the types of charts is quickly explained in terms of what it is most effective in displaying.
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Unit Plan
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Evaluate Graphics in Informational/procedural Text

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] In this lesson, you will learn to explain the function of the graphical components. You will also learn to evaluate graphics on how well they do what they are intended to do.
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McGraw Hill

Glencoe: Self Check Quizzes 1 Circle Graphs

For Students 9th - 10th
Use Glencoe's randomly generated self-checking quiz to test your knowledge of circle graphs. Each question has a "Hint" link to help. Choose the correct answer for each problem. At the bottom of the page click the "Check It" button and...
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Teachnology

Teachnology: Survey Teaching Theme

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Survey Theme provides an excellent collection of free sample worksheets, teacher resources, lesson plans and interactive media for grades k-12.
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Teachnology

Teachnology: Survey Teaching Theme

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Survey Theme provides an excellent collection of free sample worksheets, teacher resources, lesson plans and interactive media for grades k-12.
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eBook
Other

Online Statistics Education: Graphing Distributions [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This is the second chapter of a statistics e-text developed collaboratively by Rice University, University of Houston Clear Lake, and Tufts University. It looks at many different types of data displays and the advantages and...

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