Weekly Visual Data: Graphs, Charts, & Tables - Grades 6-8

You're not alone if your students struggle with understanding graphs, charts, and tables. It's a skill that takes an enormous amount of practice. This resource will help students build a strong foundation in analyzing data and creating their own data visualizations.

Included in every lesson:

• Part 1 - Phenomenon: an interesting situation is presented and students brain-storm what areas of science could be studied about it, as well as what kind of data scientists could collect from the scenario.
• Part 2 - Visual Data: students are shown a graph, table, or chart and find the connection between it and the previous phenomenon. Then they identify the critical elements, either on a whiteboard, a hand-out, or as an interactive experience using the data labels provided and their INB's.
• Part 3 - Question and Answer: students generate questions about the visual data and then answer each others’ questions
• Part 4 - New Forms: Students come up with different forms that could be used to display the same data and ideas.
• Part 5 - Student-generated Graph: students are given a new set of data relating to the phenomenon and will create their own graph, chart, or table.
• Answer keys and multiple formats for displaying data on the board or in interactive notebooks are included.

Multiple Uses:

Each topic is broken into five parts that can each be completed throughout the week as a 5-10 minute warm-up before class starts. Or, the lesson could also be used as a 40-45 minute activity where all five parts are completed on the same day.

This product is included in the Kesler Science Membership!

Topics Include:

1. Distance to Stars
2. Body Systems
3. Bohr's Model
4. Lunar Cycle 1
5. Lunar Cycle 2
6. Physical and Chemical Changes in the Digestive System
7. Periodic Table 1
8. Periodic Table 2
9. Sexual vs Asexual Reproduction
10. Hertzsprung-Russell Diagram 1
11. Hertzsprung-Russell Diagram 2
12. Mutations
13. Compare Metal, Nonmetals, and Metalloids
14. Fossil Record
15. Density
16. Day/Night
17. Embryological Development
18. Chemical Formulas
19. Topographic Maps
20. Natural Selection
21. Evidence of Chemical Reactions
22. Plate Tectonics and Crustal Features
23. Competition for Resources
24. Change in Motion 1
25. Change in Motion 2
26. Natural Hazards and Catastrophic Events
27. Short- and Long- Term Environmental Impact
28. Biodiversity and Sustainability
29. Newton's Laws
30. Atomic Structure
31. Kinetic and Potential Energy
32. Unbalanced Forces
33. Average Speed
34. Speed, Velocity, and Acceleration
35. Electromagnetic Spectrum