1. How to set up successful graphs

2. How to set up your graph!

3. (This is for your dependent variable)
How to set up your graph!
Y Axis
(This is for your dependent variable)

4. How to set up your graph! X Axis
(This is for your independent variable)

5. TAILS
Teachers’s Favorite Singer
T - Title

6. T - Title A - Axis TAILS Teachers’s Favorite Singer
Y Axis = Dependent Variable
X Axis = Independent Variable

7. Decide on an appropriate scale for each axis.
TAILS
Teachers’s Favorite Singer
Decide on an appropriate scale for each axis.
Choose a scale that lets you make the graph as large as possible for your paper and data
T - Title
A – Axis
S – Scale

8. How to determine scale Favorite Singer Number of Teachers Toby Keith22
Madonna 15
Elvis 11
Sting 5
Sinatra 2
Scale is determined by your highest & lowest number.
In this case your scale would be from 2 – 22.

9. How to determine Intervals
Favorite Singer
Number of Teachers
Toby Keith 22
Madonna 15
Elvis 11
Sting 5
Sinatra 2
The interval is decided by your scale.
In this case your scale would be from 2 – 22 and you want the scale to fit the graph.
The best interval would be to go by 5’s.

10. T – Title A – Axis I – Interval S – Scale TAILS
Teachers’s Favorite Singer
The amount of space between one number and the next or one type of data and the next on the graph.
The interval is just as important as the scale
Choose an interval that lets you make the graph as large as possible for your paper and data
T – Title
A – Axis
I – Interval
S – Scale

11. T – Title A – Axis I – Interval S – Scale TAILS
Teachers’s Favorite Singer
T – Title
A – Axis
I – Interval
S – Scale 25 20 15 10 5

12. T – Title A – Axis I – Interval L – Labels S – Scale TAILS
Teachers’s Favorite Singer
T – Title
A – Axis
I – Interval
L – Labels
S – Scale 25 20 15
Number of Teachers 10 5
LABEL your bars or data points
Toby Keith
Madonna
Elvis
Sting
Sinatra
Singers
Label your Y Axis. What do those numbers mean?
Give the bars a general label. What do those words mean?

13. When to use… Bar graphs Line Graphs For continuous data
Used to show data that are not continuous.
Allows us to compare data like amounts or frequency or categories
Allow us to make generalizations about the data
Help us see differences in data
Line Graphs
For continuous data
useful for showing trends over time

14. Title & Axes Title: “The Effects of the IV on the DV”
X axis: Independent variable
Y axis: Dependent variable
Use all available space
Scale axis evenly

15. What is wrong?
Look at the following slides and determine what is wrong with each graph.

16. TEST YOUR UNDERSTANDING Q1- What is wrong with this graph?
THE EFFECT OF ADDING VARIOUS AMOUNTS OF CALCIUM CHLORIDE ON THE TEMPERATURE OF WATER . 20 . 15 .
Average Temp. change (deg C) 10 . . 5 . 1 3 5 7 9
Amount of calcium chloride (scoops)

17. TEST YOUR UNDERSTANDING Q2 - What is wrong with this graph?
THE EFFECT OF ADDING VARIOUS AMOUNTS OF CALCIUM CHLORIDE ON THE TEMPERATURE OF WATER . 17 . . 14
Average Temp. change (deg C) 10 . . 7 4 .
Amount of calcium chloride (scoops)

18. TEST YOUR UNDERSTANDING Q3 - What is wrong with this graph?
THE EFFECT OF ADDING VARIOUS AMOUNTS OF CALCIUM CHLORIDE ON THE TEMPERATURE OF WATER . 20 . 15 .
Average Temp. change 10 . . 5 .
Amount of calcium chloride

19. TEST YOUR UNDERSTANDING Q4 - What is wrong with this graph?.
THE EFFECT OF ADDING VARIOUS AMOUNTS OF CALCIUM CHLORIDE ON THE TEMPERATURE OF WATER 10 . 8 .
Amount of Calcium Chloride (scoops) 6 . 4 . . 2
Average Temp. Change (deg C)

20. TEST YOUR UNDERSTANDING Q5 - What is wrong with this graph?
THE EFFECT OF ADDING VARIOUS AMOUNTS OF CALCIUM CHLORIDE ON THE TEMPERATURE OF WATER . 20 . 15 .
Average Temp. change (deg C) 10 . . 5 .
Amount of calcium chloride (scoops)

21. . . . . . . TEST YOUR UNDERSTANDING
Q7 - What is wrong with this graph?
THE EFFECT OF ADDING VARIOUS AMOUNTS OF CALCIUM CHLORIDE ON THE TEMPERATURE OF WATER 40 30 .
Average Temp. change (deg C) . 20 . . . 10 .
Amount of calcium chloride (scoops)

22. TEST YOUR UNDERSTANDING Q6 - What is wrong with this graph?. 20 . 15 .
Average Temp. change (deg C) 10 . . 5 .
Amount of calcium chloride (scoops)

23. Graphing Graph the following data.
Why did you choose that type of graph?
What are the advantages of looking at a graph over a data table?

24. Data Table 1 Home Energy Use Type of Energy Use Percentage
Heating & Cooling
44%
Water Heating
14%
Refrigerator 9%
Light Cooking & Other
33%

25. Graph 1

26. Data Table 2
Motion of an Object
Time(s)
Distance(m) 5 3 10 6 15 9

27. Graph 2
Distance (m)
Time (s)

28. Data Table 3 Average Number of Tornadoes by Month Month
Avg # Tornadoes
March 53
April
107
May
176
June
168
July 94

29. Graph 3
Avg # Tornadoes
Month

30. Why did you choose that type of graph?

31. What are the advantages of looking at a graph over a data table?
Advantages include……