Graph interpretation resources

Students interpret a line graph showing the running speed of different animals.

Students interpret bi-variate data on a bar graph to answer questions about social media and age of users.

Students interpret a line graph of a familiar situation.

Students interpret a line graph to answer 4 multiple choice questions about a car along a racing track.

Students construct a dot plot of fish seen at an aquarium from a tally chart, and answer questions interpreting the results.

In this practical task, students interpret information presented in a strip graph, regroup the data, construct a new strip graph, and answer questions about the data.

Students interpret distance-time graphs that show a car's movement and draw their own graph from given statements.

This task requires students to answer questions about a bar graph showing hours of sunshine over a week.

Students interpret a pie graph by answering questions on how city rates were spent over one year.

Task: Look for the similarities and differences in how students draw graphs to display information.

Task: Use data in a table to construct a graph and answer questions about the patterns. Assessment focus: interpreting tables and graphs.

Task: Transfer information from a table to a graph, label the bottom axis and describe the pattern of the data. Assessment focus: graph construction; graph interpretation.

Task: interpret a graph of a car's journey and add to the graph to represent a further description of the journey. Assessment focus: graph interpretation.

Three key variables related to high altitude flight are displayed graphically. Students use the information provided to answer a series of questions about flight.

Students use stimulus material to answer a number of questions relating to temperature change in materials which are at different distances from a heat source.

Task: Answer questions about the temperature and brightness of types of stars. Assessment focus: interpreting a graph.

Students use provided data on the time of day and the length of the shadow to construct a line graph. Students interpret their graph to answer three questions.

This resource requires students to construct a graph on data for temperature and depth below the Earth's crust. Students then answer four questions about this.

Students are provided with a graph showing the average rainfall and temperatures for Tokyo, Los Angeles, and Perth. Students interpret this graph to answer a number of questions.

For this task students are provided with three pie graphs on water. Students are required to interpret these to answer four short answer questions.

Students draw a graph from some information they are given about the heating of meths in a water bath. Students then explain in terms of particles what is happening for the sloping section and the flat section of the graph.

Task: Match descriptions of kingfishers to their likely diet, and answer questions about food chains. Assessment focus: interpretation of text and pie graphs; conventions of food chains.

Students are provided with a graph of lizard numbers on an island. They answer three questions about this graph.

Task: Students interpret a graph to answer questions, and use background knowledge to justify their responses. Assessment focus: control of body temperature in different types of animals.

Task: Decide which of two graphs e.g., tally chart, pictograph, bar graph is represented by a picture and explain how the graph/s are interpreted.