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Creating Simple Bar Graphs

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Creating Simple Bar Graphs

At a bush regeneration day, helpers counted the native plants they spotted. Use the tally picture to read the data, then practise making and reading simple bar graphs.

Read the plant count

Each plant picture stands for one plant.

Wattle

Wattle: 🌼 🌼 🌼 🌼

Grevillea

Grevillea: 🌺 🌺 🌺

Daisy

Daisy: 🌼 🌼

Lomandra

Lomandra: 🌿 🌿 🌿 🌿 🌿

1.Which plant was spotted most often?
2.Which plant was spotted least often?
  • Wattle
  • Grevillea
  • Daisy
  • Lomandra
3.How many plants were counted altogether? Count each picture once.

Make a bar graph

Use these counts from the bush regeneration day: Seedlings 3, birds 5, butterflies 2. Draw one bar for each category. Each step on the scale stands for one item.

4.Draw the three bars using the counts above. Label the bottom with the categories and the side with numbers from 0 to 5. Add the title “Wildlife and seedlings spotted”.
5.What should the labels along the bottom of your graph show?
  • The categories: seedlings, birds and butterflies
  • The numbers 0 to 5
  • The name of the helper
6.What does the height of the birds bar tell you?
7.How many more birds than butterflies were spotted?
8.Tahnee says, “The tallest bar always means the biggest number.” Is she right? Explain using the graph data.
9.Chloe collects one more butterfly. What will the butterfly bar show now?
10.Layla wants to graph how many gloves, hats and buckets the helpers bring. What could she write as the title of her graph?

3 printable pages

  • Creating Simple Bar Graphs, page 1 of 3: Read the plant count

    Page 1

  • Creating Simple Bar Graphs, page 2 of 3: Make a bar graph

    Page 2

  • Creating Simple Bar Graphs, page 3 of 3: 8. Tahnee says, “The tallest bar always means the biggest number.” Is she right?

    Page 3

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