Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Tortillas

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Young scholars convert recipes for tortillas. They calculate the amounts of ingredients as they convert recipes and write an explanation of the task to demonstrate their calculations. After reviewing their calculations, they demonstrate...
Activity
Beacon Learning Center

Beacon Learning Center: Interpreting Line Graphs

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site is a lesson on creating and interpreting a line graph. It explains how a line graph is created and then asks questions about what is learned from the data. Students type in open responses, and answers and feedback follow.
Interactive
PBS

Pbs: Interpreting Stories and Graphs

For Students 6th - 8th
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.
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Government of Alberta

Learn Alberta: Math Interactives: Exploring Data Display and Graphs

For Students 6th - 8th
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...
Unit Plan
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Graphing

For Students 6th - 8th
[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.
Unit Plan
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...
Unit Plan
E-learning for Kids

E Learning for Kids: Math: Orange Trees, Olive Trees: Line Graphs

For Students 5th - 6th
Explore even and odd numbers, fractions, counting, and line graphs with Scott amidst the olive and orange trees.
Graphic
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.
Activity
Beacon Learning Center

Beacon Learning Center: Push Ups

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
This is a tutorial on line graphs including when, how, and why one might choose to use them and how to interpret the data when it is complete. This one is to reach a goal for the number of push ups needed to win the Presidential Fitness...
Lesson Plan
Other

Nearpod: Interpreting Slope & Y Intercept

For Teachers 8th
In this lesson on interpreting slope and y-intercept, 8th graders will learn how to identify the slope and the y-intercept of a line in order to identify if a proportion is demonstrated.
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
Texas A&M University

Wtamu Virtual Math Lab: Beginning Algebra: Reading Graphs

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A good introduction to reading bar, line, and double line graphs, and drawing and reading Venn diagrams. Contains definitions and examples of these types of charts and graphs as well as practice exercises that ask you to answer questions...
Activity
Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: A Sweet Drink Adventure 7

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
Students determine how the temperature of water affects the dissolving time of a sugar cube. They create, interpret and analyze graphs of data, find an equation of the line of best fit, and relate slope to rate of change.
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Government of Alberta

Learn Alberta: Math Interactives: Exploring Election Data

For Students 6th - 8th
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...
Interactive
US Department of Education

Nces Kids: Creating an Area Graph

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This is where you will find step by step directions explaining how to create an area graph. Complete each step and click on the next tab. Directions are simple and clear.
Unit Plan
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Graphing Proportional Relationships

For Students 7th - 8th Standards
Given a proportional relationship, students will be able to graph a set of data from the relationship and interpret the unit rate as the slope of the line.
Activity
BBC

Bbc: Representing Data

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
This BBC Math Bite tutorial for line graphs, pictograms, and frequency polygons features an exam in which students draw and interpret statistical diagrams.
Website
University of Illinois

University of Illinois: Earthquakes of the World

For Students 9th - 10th
Resource contains a lesson plan that utilizes data from earthquakes. Students are instructed to analyze and interpret line graphs that display the earthquake data.
Lesson Plan
Education Place

Houghton Mifflin: Eduplace: Make a Living Bar Graph

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
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...
Lesson Plan
Student Achievement Partners

Illustrative Mathematics: Equations of Lines [Pdf]

For Teachers 7th - 9th Standards
In this lesson, students are to interpret graphs with equations of lines.
Lesson Plan
Council for Economic Education

Econ Ed Link: Graphing a Lorenz Curve and Calculating the Gini Coefficient

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this instructional activity, students receive raw data to construct a Lorenz Curve and calculate the Gini Coefficient. This instructional activity prepares AP Microeconomics students for the Advanced Placement exam. The teacher will...
Unit Plan
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Using Graphs to Analyze Data

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson will demonstrate how to analyze and interpret data given in the form of a graph.
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That Quiz

That Quiz

For Students 3rd - 8th
ThatQuiz is an excellent assessment tool for teachers and students. At this site, teachers can create individualized or group assessments on a variety of math topics. Students take these practice assessments directly online and receive...
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Khan Academy

Khan: Lesson 5: Relationships Among Linear Equations, Lines in Coordinate Plane

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson focuses on the relationship between algebraic, graphical, and contextual expressions of linear equations.