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Creating Our Bar Graphs

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Creating Our Bar Graphs

Creating Our Bar Graphs

Colourful bar graph with different categories

📊 Part 1: Understanding Bar Graphs

1. What do bar graphs show us? Circle the best answer:

How to count to 10

Information using bars of different heights

How to draw pictures

2. Why do we use different colours in our bar graphs? Check all that are correct:

To make them look pretty

To help us see different categories

To make them easier to understand

Because we like rainbows

📝 Part 2: From Tally Marks to Bar Graphs

3. Look at these tally marks and fill in the numbers:

Apples: |||| |||| ||| = _______ apples

Bananas: |||| |||| = _______ bananas

Oranges: |||| | = _______ oranges

4. Draw a simple bar graph using the tally marks above. Use different colours for each fruit:

🎨 Part 3: Planning Our Bar Graph

5. What categories will you put in your bar graph? Write them here:

Category 1: _________________

Category 2: _________________

Category 3: _________________

Category 4: _________________

6. What colour will you use for each category?

Category 1 colour: _________________

Category 2 colour: _________________

Category 3 colour: _________________

Category 4 colour: _________________

🗣️ Part 4: Talking About Our Graphs

7. Complete these sentences about bar graphs using the words in the box:

Word Box: tally, bar, category, colour, data

A _______ graph shows information using bars of different heights.

Each _______ in our graph represents a different group.

We use different _______ to help us see each group clearly.

_______ marks help us count before we make our graph.

Our graph shows _______ that we collected.

8. Practice using "I notice..." statements. Write what you might say about a bar graph:

🤔 Part 5: Reflection

9. What was the most interesting thing about making bar graphs today?
10. What was challenging about creating your bar graph?
11. How do bar graphs help us understand information better?

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