ClassX Video Lessons Youtube Channel TutoringHour Bar Graphs for Kids (Grade 1 and Grade 2) – Learn How to Read and Interpret Bar Graphs.
Hello and welcome! Today, we’re going to learn about bar graphs. Bar graphs are a fun way to show information using bars of different heights. Let’s dive into a story to see how they work!
Miss Jenkins is a teacher who wants to take her class on a field trip. She asks her students to choose between three places: the aquarium, the zoo, and the museum. To help her decide, she makes a bar graph showing what each student picked.
The bar graph is titled “Favorite Field Trip Destination.” It has two lines: one going up and down (vertical) showing the number of students, and one going side to side (horizontal) showing the three places to visit. Each place has a bar, and the taller the bar, the more students picked that place.
Let’s see what the graph tells us:
By looking at the bars, we can see that the aquarium was the most popular choice because it has the tallest bar. So, Miss Jenkins decided to take the class to the aquarium!
Now, Miss Jenkins wants to know which aquatic animals her students want to see at the aquarium. The choices are jellyfish, stingrays, and dolphins. She makes another bar graph to find out.
Let’s look at the new bar graph:
Thanks to the bar graph, Miss Jenkins knows that most kids are excited to see dolphins!
Miss Jenkins finishes her class and promises to take the kids to the aquarium the next day. Bar graphs helped her make a fun decision for everyone!
Now that you know how to read bar graphs, you can try making your own or solving some fun worksheets. We hope you enjoyed learning with us!
Create Your Own Bar Graph: Gather some objects from around your home, like toys, fruits, or colored pencils. Count how many you have of each type and draw a bar graph to show your findings. Use different colors for each bar to make it fun and easy to read. Share your graph with a family member and explain what it shows.
Bar Graph Scavenger Hunt: Go on a scavenger hunt around your house or classroom to find items that fit into different categories, like books, shoes, or snacks. Count how many items you find in each category and create a bar graph to represent your data. Discuss with a friend or classmate which category had the most items and which had the least.
Question Time: Think about a question you can answer using a bar graph. For example, “What is the favorite fruit of my family members?” Ask your family members their favorite fruit, tally the results, and draw a bar graph. Look at your graph and answer these questions: Which fruit is the most popular? Are there any fruits that no one picked?
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Hello and welcome to Tutoring Hour! In this video, we’ll learn to read and interpret a bar graph. Let’s get started with our first example.
Miss Jenkins is planning to take her class on a field trip and is looking for suggestions. Some kids offer the aquarium, while others want to visit the zoo. There are also some who think the museum is the best idea. To decide on the field trip destination, Miss Jenkins asked the 15 kids to choose between the aquarium, zoo, and museum. She then converted the information into a bar graph.
Let’s read the bar graph and answer a few questions about the favorite field trip destination. The title of our bar graph is “Favorite Field Trip Destination.” We have a horizontal line and a vertical line. Along the vertical line, we have the number of students, and along the horizontal line, we have the three destination choices. The bar graph makes it easy for Miss Jenkins to compare the children’s responses and decide where to take them.
How many kids chose the aquarium? There were seven kids who chose the aquarium. How many kids opted for the zoo? Five students opted for the zoo. And how many wanted to go to the museum? We have three kids who preferred the museum.
Which was more popular, the museum or the aquarium? If we look at the two bars, we can see that the aquarium bar is taller, meaning the aquarium was more popular than the museum. What was more preferred, the zoo or the museum? Looking at these two bars, the zoo is taller, so we know the zoo was more popular than the museum.
Which destination was the most popular? Comparing the heights of the three bars, we can see that the aquarium has the tallest bar. So, Miss Jenkins declared that she would take her class to the aquarium.
Miss Jenkins then asked her students about the aquatic animals they wanted to see at the aquarium. The kids’ choices included jellyfish, stingrays, and dolphins. To find out which was the most popular aquatic animal, Miss Jenkins asked the kids to split up into three groups based on the animal they liked.
Converting that into a bar graph would look like this. Which aquatic animal received the highest number of votes? The dolphin is the clear winner! Which aquatic animal was less popular, the stingray or the jellyfish? If you guessed the stingray, that would be incorrect. If you guessed jellyfish, that would also be incorrect because both the stingray and jellyfish have equal numbers of votes.
How many votes did the jellyfish get? The jellyfish received two votes. How many liked the dolphins? If you said 11, give yourself a pat on the back!
The bell rings, and Miss Jenkins wraps up her class, promising to take the children to the aquarium the following day. It’s time to start putting it into practice by solving some of these worksheets at tutoringhour.com.
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