Lesson Plan
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Variables and Graphs: What's Our Story?

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students learn how to quickly and efficiently interpret graphs, which are used for everyday purposes as well as engineering analysis.
Lesson Plan
Khan Academy

Khan: Lsn 8: Interpreting Relationships in Scatterplots/graphs/tables/equations

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson focuses on Interpreting and analyzing linear, quadratic, and exponential models and graphs. Students will use best fit lines to interpret contexts, distinguish whether contexts are linear or exponential functions, use the...
Lesson Plan
Primary Resources

Primary Resources: Tally and Bar Charts

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
Lots of good materials for teaching about tally marks and bar graphs.
Activity
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Growing and Graphing

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Students visit a 2nd and a 4th grade class to measure the heights of older students using large building blocks as a non-standard unit of measure. They can also measure adults in the school community. Results are displayed in...
Unit Plan
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Evaluating Data in Tables, Graphs and Charts

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] In this lesson students look at examples of graphics, tables, charts, and graphs, and learn how to interpret their data. They will be able to use this skill to enhance their...
eBook
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Appendices: The Use of Mathematics in Principles of Economics

For Students 9th - 10th
This appendix should be consulted after first reading "Welcome to Economics." Though economics is not math, there is no important concept in this course that cannot be explained without mathematics. That said, math is a tool that can be...
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Physics Classroom

The Physics Classroom: 1 D Kinematics: Interpreting Velocity Time Graphs [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
A printable worksheet for students to practice describing one-dimension motion using velocity-time graphs.
Interactive
PBS

Pbs: Interpreting Stories and Graphs

For Students 6th - 8th
This interactive exercise focuses on how line graphs can be used to represent mathematical data and provides an opportunity to translate actions from a story into graph form, then to write your own story to coincide with a line graph.
Unit Plan
PBS

Pbs: Location Graphs

For Students 6th - 8th
Use your skills of deduction to fill in the missing information and demonstrate your expertise at interpreting graphs. This interactive exercise focuses on how line graphs can be used to represent data and provides an opportunity to...
Lesson Plan
Education Place

Houghton Mifflin: Eduplace: Make a Living Bar Graph

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
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...
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.
Unit Plan
E-learning for Kids

E Learning for Kids: Math: Elephant Plant: Data and Graphs

For Students 5th - 6th
On this interactive website students practice various math skills using a real-life scenario involving plants. Those skills include interpreting data in a circle graph, interpreting data in a divided bar graph, and interpreting a bar...
Lesson Plan
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Investigating Motion Graphing Speed

For Teachers 6th - 8th
In this introduction to motion activity, students will get a personal understanding of speed and acceleration by experiencing it firsthand. Wheeled office chairs or other cart like devices are used to give one student a ride as a fellow...
Unit Plan
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Statistics: Interpretation of Circle Graphs Grade 7

For Students 7th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Interpret circle graphs by using given data.
Unit Plan
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Interpret Relationships Between Patterns

For Students 4th - 6th Standards
Generate patterns using given rules. Identify relationships between terms. Graph ordered pairs consisting of corresponding terms from the patterns. Students receive immediate feedback and have the opportunity to try questions repeatedly,...
Unit Plan
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Predicting, Finding, and Justifying Data From a Graph

For Students 7th - 9th Standards
Given data in the form of a graph, the student will use the graph to interpret solutions to problems.
Lesson Plan
Other

Nearpod: Construct & Interpret Scatter Plots

For Teachers 8th Standards
For this lesson on scatter plots, 8th graders will learn how to interpret scatter plots and then graph them using a data table.
Unit Plan
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Using Graphs to Analyze Data

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson will demonstrate how to analyze and interpret data given in the form of a graph.
Handout
University of Illinois

University of Illinois: Bar Graphs

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Two bar graph examples are shown and explained at this website. You can learn what kind of data is best represented using a bar graph.
Lesson Plan
PBS

Pbs Teachers: Tree Mendous Plots [Pdf]

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
To teach students how to use collect and use real-life data, use this lesson to create, populate and analyze graphs to interpret data related to the growth of plants from seeds. The lesson then asks students to create a story about the...
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Math Graphs

Houghton Mifflin: Math Graphs: Interpreting a Graph 1 [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Students identify or sketch quantities using a given graph. The resource consists of an enlarged printable version of a math graph available in PDF format.
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Math Graphs

Houghton Mifflin: Math Graphs: Interpreting a Graph [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Students use a given graph to identify and sketch different quantities. The math graph is available in PDF format.
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Math Graphs

Houghton Mifflin: Math Graphs: Interpreting a Graph 3 [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Students identify or sketch quantities using a given graph. The resource consists of an enlarged printable version of a math graph available in PDF format.
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Math Graphs

Houghton Mifflin: Math Graphs: Interpreting a Graph 2 [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Students identify or sketch quantities using a given graph. The resource consists of an enlarged printable version of a math graph available in PDF format.