Category: Nonlinguistic Representations

Tite: #10 Graphs or Charts

Time Needed: Depends on activity.
Room Arrangement: No change needed.
Materials: Chart or poster paper, or regular sized paper, pencils, colored pencils/markers/
crayons, data to graph.
Process/Directions: Give each student, or group of students a paper to make their chart or graph
on. Explain the directions for creating the type of graph they will make. If it is the first time
making that particular type of graph, show the students as a whole group how to make one, if
not, do an example of how to interpret the data and how to construct the graph. For example, if
the students are making a bar graph out of data they collected on favorite school lunches, start
with the showing them how to make the axis and how to label them. Then show them how to to
make the first bar. If the first lunch is pizza and and 27 out of 125 students liked that the best,
then show them how to make a bar that goes up 27.
Example of when I would use this:
During a math lesson on graphing.
Graphing the amount of people who lived or died during a war.
To show any type of data collected during a science lesson.
To help students get used to graphs and learn the importance of being able to read
the information being conveyed by them.
Source: Common Knowledge

Examples of different types of graphs: