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A Shoe In
As a result of this activity, the students will be able to classify shoes by various attributes such as color, style, material, etc. The data collected will be displayed on a class bar graph. The students will be able to read and interpret the graph noting how many shoes for each attribute.

Adventures in Statistics
This lesson plan involves fifth grade math students computing the area of classrooms, which incorporates measurement, graphing, computation, data analysis, and presentation of results.

Apples A Peel to Me
This lesson plan describes ways to use graphs with kindergarten or 1st graders using an apple theme.

Collecting Data and Graphing
This lesson plan provides an opportunity for students to see the relationship of student's arm span versus height by collecting and recording the data.

Computing Mean, Mode, and Median
Students will compute the mean, mode and median for data collected on players' heights at a basketball game.

Counting and Graphing
This lesson plan provides opportunities for first graders to learn about counting and transferring that data to a pie graph.

Graphing Rhythms
Students will write the rhythm of their names (syllables) using quarter and eighth notes and display their results on a graph.

Graphs, Stories, and Games
This lesson plan includes two stories that students listen to and can construct graphs according to the data presented in the story.

Make A Living Graph
This lesson plan teaches children how to learn to translate a concrete activity into a graphic representation such as a bar graph.

Unit on Graphing
The author explains the appropriate use of line graphs, bar graphs, pie charts, and scatter plots. Examples are shared throughout.

What Color Are Your Skittles?
Students enter data into a spreadsheet to create a pie graph showing the percentage of colors found in a bag of Skittles.