Session 5: Practice Activities
Time to Practice!
6 activities to reinforce what you learned. Try them all!
Difficulty levels: Easy Medium Challenge
1 Read 3 Graphs Easy Activity
Look at 3 different bar graphs (from a book or online). Answer: Which is tallest? Shortest? How many total?
2 Question Master Easy Activity
Write 5 questions that can be answered from one bar graph. Trade with a partner to answer each other's questions.
3 How Many More? Medium Activity
For each pair of bars in your graph, calculate the difference. Write: '___ has ___ more than ___.
4 Mystery Graph Medium Creative
Look at a bar graph without reading the title. Guess what it is about. Then check — were you right?
5 Build Then Read Medium Activity
Build a bar graph from data you collect. Then pretend you are seeing it for the first time. What does it tell you?
6 Graph Error Hunt Challenge Critical Thinking
Look at a bar graph with a mistake (numbers do not match bars, missing label, wrong title). Can you find the error?