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Graphing Practice
Connections:
Educators will explore ways to use data in an engineering experience. They will engineer an activity to allow students to determine criteria and constraints, collect data, design, and test to develop a claim that is supported by data.
Objective(s):
- Explore ways to represent data visually.
- Brainstorm ways to support students in representing data visually in their bite-size engineering experience.
Directions:
To understand the types of graphs a little more, let’s do a graphing activity.
Go to the Kids Zone Tools Page and select whether you go to a private or public school by clicking on the correct category.
Click on your state and then click on the letter your city begins with.
Find your city and click on it.
Scroll through the list of schools until you find yours. Click on your school. Look at Enrollment by race/ethnicity and see how it is represented in a pie chart.
Write down the information under Enrollment by Grade, recording how many students are in each grade.
Go to the Create-A-Graph page and use the information you recorded to make your own graph showing how many students are in each grade at your school.
What is the best graph to use?
Try using different kinds of graphs.
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