Pie Chart Lesson Plans

Students read pie charts. In this graphing lesson, students use pie charts to compare percentages. Students discuss the data and complete a worksheet.

A great lesson designed around the Easter season awaits your class. They are given plastic eggs filled with jellybeans, and must make estimates of how many of each color are in the eggs. The information is put on a spreadsheet. Once the eggs are opened and the jellybeans are sorted, the correct information is put on a bar graph and pie chart. A sweet lesson!

Students determine the proper uses for bar graphs, pie charts, and trend graphs. In this graphing lesson, students watch a PowerPoint presentation that describes and illustrates the use of different types of graphs. They complete the associated worksheets.

Fifth graders examine how circle graphs present data in the form of fractions, decimals, and percents. They analyze a circle graph about a family budget, and create their own circle graph that illustrates how they would spend fifty five dollars a month. Next, they create a double bar graph comparing the population for ten U.S. states for the years 1980 and 1990.

Fifth graders explore to find the central angle and percent. In this circle graph lesson, 5th graders use formulas to calculate the central angle and a protractor to create their graph. Students complete a graphing sheet for homework.

Students make spreadsheets and pie charts. For this spreadsheet and pie chart lesson, students set up a spreadsheet by making header rows and labels. They chart a cup full of M & M candies in the spreadsheet before making a pie chart that shows the distribution of candy colors in their cup.

Seventh graders are able to develop (synthesis) pie graphs with the class and on their own. They are told that pie charts are a graphic representation of material that can be given in the form of parts of a whole by using percentages,and that all percentages represented by the graph must add up to 100%.

Students graph data they collected and analyze it using a bar graph. In this algebra lesson, students analyze their data using pie charts and bar graphs while explaining the meaning to each other. They compare and contrast bar graphs vs pie charts.

Seventh graders use circle graphs and other forms to display data. In this algebra lesson, 7th graders analyze and graph their data with the appropriate graphs. They use the bar graph, line, stem and leaf plot and circle graphs to display their data. They explain why they have chosen that graph to show case their data.

Students create their own pie chart about their total health, being comprised of physical, social, and mental health. They label each section physical, social, and mental, and label each section with the percentage they are trying to represent. They provide a brief explanation to justify why they gave each percentage to each section.