Fun Graphing Exercises!-NCES Kids' Zone

Learn About Your School!

Go to http://nces.ed.gov/nceskids/tools/ and select whether you go to a private or public school by clicking on the correct category.
Click on your state and then click on the letter your city begins with. Find your city and click on it. Then scroll through the list of schools until you find yours. Click on your school.
Look at Enrollment by race/ethnicity and see how it is represented in a pie chart.
Write down the information under Enrollment by Grade, recording how many students are in each grade.
Then go to the Create-A-Graph and use the information you recorded to make your own graph showing how many students are in each grade at your school. What is the best graph to use? Try using different kinds of graphs.