TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Variables and Graphs: What's Our Story?
Students learn how to quickly and efficiently interpret graphs, which are used for everyday purposes as well as engineering analysis.
Khan Academy
Khan: Lsn 8: Interpreting Relationships in Scatterplots/graphs/tables/equations
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...
Primary Resources
Primary Resources: Tally and Bar Charts
Lots of good materials for teaching about tally marks and bar graphs.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Growing and Graphing
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...
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Evaluating Data in Tables, Graphs and Charts
[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...
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Appendices: The Use of Mathematics in Principles of Economics
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...
Physics Classroom
The Physics Classroom: 1 D Kinematics: Interpreting Velocity Time Graphs [Pdf]
A printable worksheet for students to practice describing one-dimension motion using velocity-time graphs.
PBS
Pbs: Interpreting Stories and Graphs
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.
PBS
Pbs: Location Graphs
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...
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...
The Franklin Institute
Frankin Institute Online: Group Graphing
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.
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...
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Investigating Motion Graphing Speed
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...
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Statistics: Interpretation of Circle Graphs Grade 7
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Interpret circle graphs by using given data.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Interpret Relationships Between Patterns
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,...
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Predicting, Finding, and Justifying Data From a Graph
Given data in the form of a graph, the student will use the graph to interpret solutions to problems.
Other
Nearpod: Construct & Interpret Scatter Plots
For this lesson on scatter plots, 8th graders will learn how to interpret scatter plots and then graph them using a data table.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Using Graphs to Analyze Data
This lesson will demonstrate how to analyze and interpret data given in the form of a graph.
University of Illinois
University of Illinois: Bar Graphs
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.
PBS
Pbs Teachers: Tree Mendous Plots [Pdf]
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...
Math Graphs
Houghton Mifflin: Math Graphs: Interpreting a Graph 1 [Pdf]
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.
Math Graphs
Houghton Mifflin: Math Graphs: Interpreting a Graph [Pdf]
Students use a given graph to identify and sketch different quantities. The math graph is available in PDF format.
Math Graphs
Houghton Mifflin: Math Graphs: Interpreting a Graph 3 [Pdf]
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.
Math Graphs
Houghton Mifflin: Math Graphs: Interpreting a Graph 2 [Pdf]
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.