Curated OER
A Bird's Eye View of our 50 States
Third graders focus on state birds as they learned absolute location (latitude/longitude) of each state, as well as their relative location (bordering states).
Curated OER
Penguin Heights
Students use the worksheet from the first website listed below to collect data on the penguin heights on the Penguin Page.
Curated OER
"The Science Times"
Students create their own newspaper after gathering information at the Museum of Natural History's Hall of Biodiversity.
Curated OER
Thank You... Thomas Edison!
Students investigate the life of Thomas Edison. They research how he made a difference. They understand that accurate data collection is important for math. They create a chart using spreadsheet data.
Curated OER
Scientific Inquiry: Periodic Motion
Learners construct their own pendulum. For this physics lesson, students design an experiment to find the factors affecting its period. They formulate a conclusion based on experimental data.
Curated OER
Investigation of Timbre
Students design an experiment to analyze the timbre of different instruments. In this physics lesson, students analyze the missing quality in sound. They discuss their results in class.
Scholastic
Scholastic: Bars, Lines, and Pies
Students will learn and reinforce skills for creating, applying and analyzing pie charts, bar graphs and line graphs.
Shodor Education Foundation
Shodor Interactivate: Bar Graph
A wonderful tool and learning experience using a bar grapher. This site contains an interactive bar grapher and much more! Follow the "What?" link to get to classroom resources such as problems and explorations.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Make Bar Graphs 1
Practice creating bar graphs (bar charts) from data sets. Students receive immediate feedback and have the opportunity to try questions repeatedly, watch a video or receive hints.
Government of Alberta
Learn Alberta: Math Interactives: Exploring Data Display and Graphs
This multimedia Learn Alberta math resource focuses on graphing data. In the video portion, students will see how math is involved in the display of merchandise in stores. The accompanying interactive component provides an exploration...
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Graphing
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Given a set of data, students will understand how to correctly draw a line or bar graph, interpret its patterns, and find the slope in the case of a line graph.
Education Place
Houghton Mifflin: Eduplace: Make a Living Bar Graph
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...
US Department of Education
National Center for Education Statistics: Create a Graph Tutorial
This tutorial walks students through how to create different types of graphs using the Create a Graph tool available on the website. Covers bar graphs, line graphs, pie charts, area graphs, scatter plots, and dependent and independent...
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Selecting and Using Representations for Collected Data
[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...
Ducksters
Ducksters: Kids Math: Picture Graphs
Math picture graphs for kids. Pie, line, and bar charts. Learn with problems, examples.
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Graphing Our Snack Mix: Review of Graphing
Second graders review how to make bar graphs, line plots, and pictographs by tallying the contents of snack mix and building graphs to show their data.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Make Line Plots
Practice creating line plots (dot plots) from data sets. Students receive immediate feedback and have the opportunity to try questions repeatedly, watch a tutorial video, or receive hints.
E-learning for Kids
E Learning for Kids: Math: Elephant Plant: Data and Graphs
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...
National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, University of California Santa Barbara
Nceas: Graph Types
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.
Math Is Fun
Math Is Fun: Definition of Bar Graph
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.
That Quiz
That Quiz: Practice Test: Graphs
This resource allows users to test their knowledge of graphs and graphing methods.
Math Is Fun
Math Is Fun: Data Graphs
Create and customize a bar graph, line graph, or pie chart based on a set of data and print it out.