Students will learn and reinforce skills for creating, applying and analyzing pie charts, bar graphs and line graphs.

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...

An applet allows students to sort shapes into a bar graph by color and shape. The learning resource consists of the activity, instructions, instructor notes, and additional resources.

Graphical methods of data presentation are a key feature of scientific communication. This project asks the question, "What's the best way to compare the land area of states: a map or a bar graph?" You'll be measuring performance on two...

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...

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.

This site provides information on Histograms and Bar Graphs. It includes worksheets, key terms, and links to further information.

Learners 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 lesson are videos of the class engaged in the lesson and samples of...

Math picture graphs for kids. Pie, line, and bar charts. Learn with problems, examples.

Students plant sunflower seeds in plastic cups, and once germinated, these are exposed to different conditions of light levels and/or soil moisture contents. During exposure of the plants to these different conditions, students measure...

Great resource to practice and strengthen math skills pertaining to graphs. Math worksheets are printable, may be customized, and include answer keys.

The purpose of this task is for students to represent and interpret categorical data. As a class, students will answer a question with three possible answers and construct a bar graph with the responses. Multiple discussion questions and...

Graphing can be made fun and hands-on with different real world "tools" - like snacks!

This introductory tutorial about statistical graphing with four examples of how pie charts (circle graphs) are constructed and read.

This activity is an online, interactive energy bar chart tool that assesses student understanding of the work/energy relationship.

Kindergartners measure each other's height using large building blocks, then visit a 2nd and a 4th grade class to measure those young scholars. They can also measure adults in the school community. Results are displayed in...

In this hands-on, technology-rich instructional activity, learners will interpret data. The students will define words involving graphs, create a bar graph using M&M's, and post information from their findings on the internet. The...

This lesson teaches middle schoolers what economists mean when they talk about people who are employed, unemployed, and not in the labor force. It discusses the Current Population Survey and asks students to pose as government survey...

In this activity, students investigate the simulated use of solid rocket fuel by using an antacid tablet. Students observe the effect that surface area and temperature has on chemical reactions. Also, students compare the reaction time...

This U.S. Geological Survey website explains a variety of uses for saline water. Pie graphs and bar graphs are used to illustrate the various uses. Click Home to access the site in Spanish.

Data comes to the rescue! Children will collect, analyze, and represent data as they try to dodge a series of catastrophes faced by characters from their favorite PBS Kids shows.

A brief overview of how to gather both quantitative and qualitative data, complete with a sample data table.