Scholastic
Scholastic: Bars, Lines, and Pies
Middle schoolers will learn and reinforce skills for creating, applying and analyzing pie charts, bar graphs and line graphs.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Great Golly Graphs
This lesson plan asks learners 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...
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
The Math Forum: Seventh Grade Mathematics: Data Sense
This site has some interesting ways to collect and evaluate data. There are some activities about note taking, spreadsheets, surveys, and a cool bridge construction project. Teachers may want to use this site as a resource for some...
Other
Delta State University: Lesson Plan 3: Pie Graphs
The students will gather, organize, and display data in an appropriate pie (circle) graph using M&M's! [PDF]
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Graphing January's Weather
First graders graph the weather in Vermont for the month of January.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: The Challenge Question: "Walk the Line"
Learners are introduced to the "Walk the Line" challenge question. They are asked to write journal responses to the question and brainstorm what information they need to answer the question. Ideas are shared with the class (or in pairs...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Getting to Know Your Classmates Using Bar Graphs
Middle schoolers will collect data from class using surveys. Students survey classmates concerning favorite movies, favorite color, shoe size, time spent studying, brand of cell phone and etc. From the data they will create bar graphs...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: M&m's and Blogs: Interpreting Data!
In this hands-on, technology-rich lesson plan, students 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 students will...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Misleading Graphs Are Da'pits!
In this interactive lesson, students will discover how creating an incorrect graph will display misleading information. Through viewing and discussing a variety of graphs, the students will identify 5 components that graphs must contain...
University of Texas
Inside Mathematics: Parking Cars [Pdf]
This task challenges a student to use their understanding of scale to read and interpret data in a bar graph.
Other
A River Runs Through It Learning Project
In this year long learning project integrating mathematics and science, students solve environmental problems using data collection and problem solving concepts. Designed for upper elementary gifted students. Interactive components and...
University of Texas
Inside Mathematics: Our Pets [Pdf]
This task challenges a student to demonstrate understanding of concepts involved in representing and interpreting data.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Heads Up!
The lesson is a hands-on project. Students will work in pairs to gather various measurements, organizing the data into a provided chart. The measurements will be used to review, reinforce, and introduce skills such as measures of central...
University Corporation for Atmospheric Research
Ucar: Project Sky Math
Teachers will be interested to explore the SkyMath module, and the 16 classroom activities at this site. In this program, students will collect and record real-time weather data to analyze. Data analysis, graphing, number relationship,...
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Going for the Gold
Second graders read and create graphs based on Olympic data for 2014.
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
Nctm: Illuminations: State Names
Students use multiple representations to display how many times the letters of the alphabet is used in a state name. Concepts explored: stem and leaf, box and whisker plots, histograms.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Statistically Thinking
The object of this project is for learners to learn how to find univariate and bivariate statistics for sets of data. Also, the students will be able to determine if two sets of data are linearly correlated and to what degree. The...
PBS
Pbs Teachers: Sports and Math: Batting Averages and More
Set up a spreadsheet using a computer or graphing calculator, and perform calculations using columns. Calculate percentages and solve a system of equations regarding baseball statistics.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Get on Your Mark, Get Set, Go!
In collaborative/cooperative groups, students will review basic vocabulary and concepts for data and statistics. Students will create, collect, display, and interpret data in the form of frequency tables, bar graphs and circle graphs.
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.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: "Bursting With Math"
Using "Starburst" jelly beans to sort, graph and add.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Ice Cream Sundae Survey
Learners quickly realize the importance of learning how to read and find information in charts, graphs, and tables compared to finding the same information written in a paragraph. This is a fun, high energy lesson!This lesson plan was...
University of Texas at Austin
Mathematics Teks Toolkit: The Sounds of Music
In this lesson, students collect data, graph it, then determine the period and frequency of the sound waves made by a guitar.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Who Bounces Best?
This is a cooperative learning, kinesthetic and presentation lesson. Students will use the computer to create graphs/charts to display data collected by counting the number of successful bounces when bouncing a basketball for 30 seconds....