Graph interpretation resources

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.

Students are given results from an investigation looking at light intensity and its effect on the rate of photosynthesis in two plants. Students are required to draw line graphs of this data and then answer a number of questions pertaining to this.

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.

Students are given a graph that shows how many days it took for bread placed in different areas to grow mould. Students use this graph to answer three short questions.

Task: Answer questions about the relationship between mass and stretch. Assessment focus: graph interpretation.

Data from a test of comparative strengths of different magnets is provided. Students graph the data and make a conclusion.

Students answer three questions about data contained in pie graphs about the food wild cats eat.

Students interpret a line graph showing the water temperature in a school pool over a two week period.

Students match bar graphs to tally charts.

Students complete a stem and leaf graph about students' test scores and answer questions on mode, spread and range.

Students show their understanding of stem-and-leaf graphs of ages by classifying questions as true or false.

Students read statements about a stem-and-leaf graph and indicate whether the statements are true or false.

Students interpret a pictograph to answer questions about a classroom investigation. This pictograph has a key.

Students answer questions and calculate a percentage related to a bar graph of the ways students travel to school.

Students to interpret a bar graph and answer questions about its data.

Students answer questions about a stem-and-leaf graph which shows the ages of people gathered in a house one Christmas.

This task requires students to read and interpret a pictograph which shows the number of planes landing each day at an airport. This pictograph has a key.

This task requires students to interpret and answer questions from a time-series line graph.