Graphing Bar Graphs and Picture Graphs Print and Go for 2nd and 3rd Grades

Your students will master bar graphs and picture graphs with this set of 3 unique print-and-go activities. If you love activities that fully engage your students, this is the graphing resource for you. If you have different levels of ability, with some students who can do bar graphs in their sleep and others who don't know what a graph is, this resource is for you! It's packed with three activities designed to get students to master of this standard.

They'll review the concept of bar and picture graphs using a video and guided notes. Then, they'll gather their own data by conducting a mini research study. You'll get four different possible topics already created for you, as well as a template for students who want to choose their own topic.

For the third graphing activity, they'll graph the data they collected on bar and/or picture graphs.

Once the graphs are completed, the students will switch graphs and answer reflection questions about their peers’ graphs.

There are accommodations for students who need them, as well as differentiation options for high-ability or gifted students.

You'll enjoy these features:
✨ The step-by-step instructions for you AND your students

✨ It's print-and-go!
✨ The activities are authentic, with real data that is meaningful to students

This Graphing Bar and Picture Graphs resource includes:

✅ Three different activities for students to practice bar graphs and picture graphs

✅ Instruction sheets for teachers and students

✅ Guided notes sheet with key

✅ Accommodated version of the guided notes with a word bank

✅ Four different research topic sheets

✅ Blank research topic sheet for students who want to choose their own
✅ Four formatted bar and picture graph templates for students to illustrate their data
✅ Reflection sheet to analyze another student's graph

✅ Rubric

After using this graphing with bar and picture graphs resource, your students will be able to:

• Know key vocabular related to bar and picture graphs (axis, axes, data, title, key, etc.)
• Represent data in a bar graph
• Represent data in a picture graph
• Analyze a bar or picture graph for
• Gather data using research techniques appropriate to the grade level

Frequently Asked Questions:

1. Can my younger students really conduct research? Yep. In fact, they're really good at it with clear instructions and reasonable expectations (provided for you in the resource).
2. This seems pretty involved. How much prep is there? Almost none. This is print-and-go, for sure. If you do Activity 1, you'll need to pull up the video on the screen. It could not be easier.
3. How much do my students need to know already about bar and picture graphs? These activities are designed for practice and review, so you'll want to have introducted the standard previously.
   
   
   

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⭐⭐WILLIAMS' MODEL OF CREATIVITY ⭐⭐
This lesson is based on Williams' Model of Creativity, a model designed to develop the traits of creativity in students. This particular resource focuses on this trait:

☀️ Fluency - the ability to come up with lots of ideas or attributes
☀️ Curiosity - the characteristic of being interested and motivated to learn

☀️ Flexibility - the ability to take different approaches and generate alternate ideas

In addition to addressing standards and providing an engaging and effective classroom experience, these activities will also build students' creativity skills.

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