Session 5: Practice Activities
Time to Practice!
6 activities to reinforce what you learned. Try them all!
Difficulty levels: Easy Medium Challenge
1 Build a Bar Chart Easy Activity
Using your frequency table from Session 4, build a bar chart on graph paper. Include: title, labeled axes, even spacing, and colored bars. Can someone else read your graph without explanation?
2 Sticker Pictograph Easy Creative
Create a pictograph using real stickers. Survey 10+ people about something (favorite fruit, pet they want, etc.) and represent the results with stickers. Include a clear key.
3 Floor Bar Chart Medium Group Activity
Use tape on the floor to create axes. Each student stands in the column matching their answer to a survey question. Photograph the human bar chart from above. What does it show?
4 Dot Plot Practice Medium Activity
Collect the ages of 15-20 people you know. Create a dot plot on a number line. Where do the dots cluster? Are there any gaps or outliers?
5 Graph Type Matching Medium Discussion
For each dataset, decide the best graph type: (1) Favorite sports of 25 students, (2) Heights of 30 plants in centimeters, (3) Number of books read by 20 kids, (4) Pets owned by each family on your street.
6 Redesign Challenge Challenge Critical Thinking
Take one set of data and display it THREE different ways: bar chart, pictograph, and dot plot. Write a sentence about which one communicates the data best and why.