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Shodor Education Foundation

Shodor Interactivate: Lesson: Bar Graph

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
This lesson is designed to give students practice creating and reading bar graphs as well as understanding how to accurately represent a graph with appropriate units.
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Cuemath

Cuemath: Bar Graphs

For Students 9th - 10th
A comprehensive guide for learning all about bar graphs with definitions, solved examples, and practice questions.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Read Bar Graphs and Solve 2 Step Problems

For Students 2nd - 4th Standards
Read and interpret a double bar graphs. Students receive immediate feedback and have the opportunity to try questions repeatedly, watch a video or receive hints. CCSS.Math.Content.3.MD.B.3 Draw a scaled picture graph and a scaled bar...
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Scholastic

Scholastic: Bars, Lines, and Pies

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students will learn and reinforce skills for creating, applying and analyzing pie charts, bar graphs and line graphs.
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Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Building Our Own Bar Graphs (Part I)

For Teachers 2nd Standards
Second graders use data to create a tally chart and make a bar graph. This lesson includes a detailed plan, videos of students engaged in the lesson, and printable worksheets.
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Shodor Education Foundation

Shodor Interactivate: Bar Graph Sorter

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
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.
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Science Buddies

Science Buddies: Interpreting Area Data From Maps vs. Graphs

For Teachers 9th - 10th
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...
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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...
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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.
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Shodor Education Foundation

Shodor Interactivate: Lesson: Histograms and Bar Graphs

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This site provides information on Histograms and Bar Graphs. It includes worksheets, key terms, and links to further information.
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Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Class Surveys and Graphs

For Teachers 2nd - 4th Standards
Students 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...
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Ducksters

Ducksters: Kids Math: Picture Graphs

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Math picture graphs for kids. Pie, line, and bar charts. Learn with problems, examples.
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Math Aids

Math Aids: Graph Worksheets

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Great resource to practice and strengthen math skills pertaining to graphs. Math worksheets are printable, may be customized, and include answer keys.
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Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: Favorite Ice Cream Flavor

For Teachers 1st - 2nd Standards
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...
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Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Snack Attack

For Teachers 3rd Standards
Graphing can be made fun and hands-on with different real world "tools" - like snacks!
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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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Physics Classroom

The Physics Classroom: Chart That Motion

For Students 9th - 10th
This activity is an online, interactive energy bar chart tool that assesses student understanding of the work/energy relationship.
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: How Tall Are We?

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Kindergartners measure each other's height using large building blocks, then visit a 2nd and a 4th grade class to measure those students. They can also measure adults in the school community. Results are displayed in age-appropriate bar...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: M&m's and Blogs: Interpreting Data!

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
In this hands-on, technology-rich lesson, 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 learners will also...
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Fuel Mystery Dis Solved!

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
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...
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US Geological Survey

Usgs: Water Science for Schools Uses of Saline Water

For Students 3rd - 8th
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.
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PBS

Pbs Kids Afterschool Adventure!: Operation: Data Saves the Day Activity Plan

For Teachers 1st - 3rd Standards
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.
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Discovery Education

Discovery Education: Science Fair Central: Investigation Set Up and Collect Data

For Students 9th - 10th
A brief overview of how to gather both quantitative and qualitative data, complete with a sample data table.

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