Graphing Picture and Bar Graphs

Resources

Resources:
Mighty Math: Graphs Book, by Sara Pistoia (This book was used as a resource to create the "Graphs" PPP)

Investigations in Numbers, Data, and Space Textbook, by TERC and Person Education, INC.

Scholastic News: Reading a Bar Graph worksheet, from October 2009 Edition 1

Farm Animal Picture Graph and Bar Graph of Pets from www.superteacherworksheets.com

Technology:
Smartboard
“Graphs” PowerPoint Presentation (PPP)

Materials:

  • Teacher made graphing sheets [1,2,3,4]
  • Pockets chart
  • Cubes
  • Crayons
  • Cube template for students to cut out and color to represent the picture graph
  • Pencils
  • M&M "fun size" bags (enough for each student)
  • Buttons
  • Skittles "fun size" bags (enough for each student)
  • Button template for students to cut out and color to represent the picture graph

cubes bar