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National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, University of California Santa Barbara

Nceas: Graph Types

For Students 3rd - 5th
At this site from NCEAS you can learn how to organize your data into pie graphs, bar graphs, and line graphs. Explanations and examples are given of each graph along with several questions that check comprehension.
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E-learning for Kids

E Learning for Kids: Math: Wizards: Graphs

For Students 4th - 6th
Join the Magic Wandia Games and learn all about graphs!
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ClassFlow

Class Flow: Thanksgiving Graphing

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
[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.
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ClassFlow

Class Flow: Egg Graphing

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart is a measurement activity to prepare for MAP test it incorporates bar graphing.
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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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University of Cambridge

University of Cambridge: Nrich: The Pet Graph

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
On this one-page website, sharpen your logic and graph reading skills by figuring out which pet goes with each bar on the graph. The solution is available to double check your own solution.
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Tulpehocken Area School District: Graphing and Analyzing Scientific Data

For Students 4th - 8th
Student worksheet 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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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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E-learning for Kids

E Learning for Kids: Math: Pizza (Italian) Restaurant: Data and Chance

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
In this interactive site, students practice with bar and picture graphs by helping a pizza place collect and analyze their data.
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: A Tasty Experiment

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students conduct an experiment to determine whether or not the sense of smell is important to being able to recognize foods by taste. They do this by attempting to identify several different foods that have similar textures. For some of...
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Scholastic

Scholastic: Max's Math Adventures: A Hairy Situation

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
Help Max make a bar graph to show the hair colors of his classmates. Teachers will appreciate the activities with bar graphs in the extra challenges. Use the teacher's guide to create a fun and engaging lesson.
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National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

Nctm: Illuminations: Bar Grapher

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
A computer applet that will draw any bar graph with student's data input.
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Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: 6.ee Chocolate Bar Sales

For Teachers 5th - 8th
n this task learners use different representations to analyze the relationship between two quantities and to solve a real world problem. The situation presented provides a good opportunity to make connections between the information...
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ClassFlow

Class Flow: Graphs

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart presents bar and double bar graphs, line and double line graphs, pictographs, histograms, and circle graphs with review activities and web links for practice.
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ClassFlow

Class Flow: Graphing

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students will identify pictographs, bar graphs and circle graphs.
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E-learning for Kids

E Learning for Kids: Math: Orange Trees, Olive Trees: Graphs

For Students 4th - 6th
Tomas and Luna are farmers. See how many oranges and olives they have collected!
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: We're in a Pickle

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
A hands-on lesson in which children work together to discover adjectives, write a descriptive paragraph, and apply math principles to produce a bar graph interpreting results from the lesson.
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Beacon Learning Center

Beacon Learning Center: All That Data

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
Students analyze data by finding the mean, median, mode, and range of a set of numbers. Line plots, bar graphs, and circle graphs are also included in this lesson.
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Math Is Fun

Math Is Fun: Histograms

For Students 4th - 6th Standards
Explains, with examples, what a histogram is, how it differs from a bar graph, and how to interpret one. Includes a set of practice questions.
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BBC

Bbc: Representing Data

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
This BBC Math Bite tutorial for line graphs, pictograms, and frequency polygons features an exam in which students draw and interpret statistical diagrams.
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PBS

Pbs Mathline: Sand Babies (Pdf) [Pdf]

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
In this engaging lesson, students use a variety of measurement strategies in creating their own Sand Babies. Students explore standard and non-standard measurements, area, data collection and analysis, and graphing. Adaptations are...
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Selecting and Using Representations for Collected Data

For Students 5th - 7th
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] Given a variety of data (including line plots, line graphs, stem and leaf plots, circle graphs, bar graphs, box and whisker plots, histograms, and Venn diagrams), the student...
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: A Tornado in My State?

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students will analyze data of tornadoes throughout the United States. They will create a bar graph of the number of tornadoes for the top ten states in the country and then calculate the median and the mode of the data.
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The Math League

The Math League: Using Data and Statistics: Pie Charts

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
This introductory tutorial about statistical graphing with four examples of how pie charts (circle graphs) are constructed and read.

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