Handout
Wolfram Research

Wolfram Math World: Bar Chart

For Students 9th - 10th
MathWorld offers a definition and example of the math term, "bar chart."
Activity
Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Creating Charts

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students learn to represent data in a list as a bar chart. They examine statistics from the 2000 Olympic Games and determine the team that took home the most medals.
Interactive
National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, University of California Santa Barbara

Nceas: Graph Types

For Students 3rd - 5th
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.
Activity
Math Is Fun

Math Is Fun: Definition of Bar Graph

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
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.
Activity
Math Is Fun

Math Is Fun: Data Graphs

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
Create and customize a bar graph, line graph, or pie chart based on a set of data and print it out.
Unit Plan
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Analyze Graphical Sources: Practice 2 (English I Reading)

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson focuses on practice exercises to understand and interpret the data in a graphic representations including pie charts, bar graphs, and line graphs.
Unit Plan
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Types of Graphs

For Students 6th - 8th
This presentation allows the learner to visualize the different types of graphs used to display data in scientific investigations.
eBook
Other

Online Statistics Education: Graphing Distributions [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This is the second chapter of a statistics e-text developed collaboratively by Rice University, University of Houston Clear Lake, and Tufts University. It looks at many different types of data displays and the advantages and...
Interactive
US Department of Education

Nces: Create a Graph: Kids Zone

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
Make your own pie, bar, line, area or XY graph with this interactive tool. Look for examples of graphs already created from data collected by the National Center for Education Statistics. Complete with a graphing tutorial.
Activity
Beacon Learning Center

Beacon Learning Center: Kinds of Graphs

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
An interactive web lesson introduces five types of graphs to students and allows them to practice matching the names to examples.
Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: Charts Handling Data

For Teachers 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] Reading graphs fit together with this engaging, colorful flipchart analyzing pie charts, bar graph, percents, and fractions.
Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: Using Graphs in History Class

For Teachers 5th - 8th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart covers the major types of graphs used in social studies such as bar graphs, line graphs, pie graphs, and pictographs. Information on graphs is followed by graphs dealing with salaries...
Unit Plan
Education Development Center

Tune in to Learning: Reading Charts and Graphs

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
Practice graph reading skills with these exercises and companion tutorials.
Activity
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Analyze Graphical Sources: Practice 2 (English I Reading)

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
You will look at each of these types of graphs: bar graph, line graph, pie charts, as you work your way through the lesson.
Interactive
TeacherLED

Teacher Led Interactive Whiteboard Resource Survey

For Students K - 1st Standards
Students can explore surveys, pie charts, and bar graphs with this interactive white board resource.
Handout
Colorado State University

Colorado State Writing Center: Charts

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
The use of charts and graphs can improve your presentations, whether on paper or as visual aids. Here you can read about how to create line, column, bar, pie graphs, and scatterplots. Just follow the links to their respective pages.
Activity
Scholastic

Scholastic: Max's Math Adventures: A Hairy Situation

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
Help Max make a bar graph to show the hair colors of his classmates. Teachers will appreciate the activities with bar graphs in the extra challenges. Use the teacher's guide to create a fun and engaging lesson.
Unit Plan
BBC

Bbc Skillswise: Graphs: Collecting Data

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn different ways to collect data.
Unit Plan
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Statistics: Displaying Categorical Variables

For Students 11th - 12th Standards
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] This Concept covers a few ways in which categorical data can be displayed; using bar graphs and pie graphs.
Lesson Plan
PBS

Pbs: Mathline Creature Feature Lesson Plan [Pdf]

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
An interdisciplinary math, science, and language arts lesson plan that engages students in an exploration of statistics. Through a study of various forest climates, students utilize data collection and analysis, classification, and...
Unit Plan
E-learning for Kids

E Learning for Kids: Math: Tea Store: Reading a Table

For Students 2nd - 4th
Students will demonstrate how to interpret information in a table.
Website
Other

Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life: u.s. Religion Landscape Survey

For Students 9th - 10th
Website summarizing the results of a survey on religion in the U.S. Contains maps and charts of information for each specific religion as well as bar graphs comparing the deomographics of the different religious groups. Two full reports...
Website
abcteach

Abcteach: Dinosaurs

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
[Free Registration/Login Required] This resource features a variety of activities related to dinosaurs. There are interdisciplinary tasks that include writing exercises such as creative writing and story planner formats. Lessons for...
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Teachnology

Teachnology: Survey Teaching Theme

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Survey Theme provides an excellent collection of free sample worksheets, teacher resources, lesson plans and interactive media for grades k-12.