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
"The Science Times"
Students create their own newspaper after gathering information at the Museum of Natural History's Hall of Biodiversity.
Curated OER
Penguin Homes
Students use the penguin research pages to locate the areas that our penguin species live in. Then have them create simple Venn diagrams to illustrate where penguins live.
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...
University of Texas at Austin
Mathematics Teks Toolkit: And We Go Around
Collect and display data using a bar and circle graph to explore fractions and percents.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Graphs, Charts, and Tables: Targeted Math Instruction
At the end of this lesson plan about graphs, charts, and tables, students will be able to interpret and compare data from graphs (including circle, bar, and line graphs), charts, and tables.
Other
Tulpehocken Area School District: Graphing and Analyzing Scientific Data
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.
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...
University of Vienna (Austria)
The Graphs of Sin, Cos, and Tan Maths Online
This applet allows the user to create the graphs of sin, cos, and tan by moving a scroll bar. The user can watch the unit circle and the graph simultaneously to see how the two are related. The user may also choose to see the angle...
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...
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Graphs
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart is a quick review of line, bar, and circle graphs.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Types of Graphs
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart explores the use of graphs. Bar graphs, tables and circle graphs are discussed.
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...
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Data Analysis Using Graphing
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart allows students to analyze data using appropriate graphs, including pictographs, histograms, bar graphs, line graphs, circle graphs, and line plots introduced earlier, and using...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Great Golly Graphs
This lesson plan asks students to create a survey project including graphs, questions, tables, and data analysis. It gives an assessment and ideas for remediation and extension as well as ways to manage behavior problems and reluctant...
Beacon Learning Center
Beacon Learning Center: Kinds of Graphs
An interactive web lesson introduces five types of graphs to students and allows them to practice matching the names to examples.
University of Regina (Canada)
University of Regina: Math Central: Circle and Bar Graphs
Students evaluate data, use the data to make different types of graphs, and then investigate these graphs. Teacher's notes are included along with downloadable versions of the activity. This lesson is from a group of lessons that uses...
Beacon Learning Center
Beacon Learning Center: All That Data
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.
The Math League
The Math League: Using Data and Statistics: Pie Charts
This introductory tutorial about statistical graphing with four examples of how pie charts (circle graphs) are constructed and read.
PBS
Pbs: The Lowdown: Exploring Changing Obesity Rates Through Ratios and Graphs
In these KQED Lowdown infographics, explore how adult obesity rates in the United States, as measured by body mass index (BMI), have dramatically changed in the past half-century. A circular graph and a pictograph depict data by decade,...
Government of Alberta
Learn Alberta: Math Interactives: Exploring Election Data
Using actual Alberta provincial election results, students have the opportunity to interpret election data using a variety of graph types. Pictographs, line graphs, bar graphs, circle graphs, and data tables are covered in this...