The 5th Grade scientists in Mr. Cabaniss’s class at Maybeury are preparing for an awesome project that they will be working on this year.  Their project involves raising trout from the egg stage to the fingerling stage.  Once the trout are at the fingerling stage, they can be released into Virginia’s riverways.  Throughout this experience, the students will be keeping track of the water chemistry in the fish tank and tracking the fish growth.  To keep up with all of this data, the students will be using Numbers to plot data and create graphs.

In our lesson, we practiced graphing data.  We went to weather.com to pull up the 10 day forecast in their zip code to use as our data set.  The students had to input their data into the cells.  Then we highlighted the data and inserted a graph.  We created both a bar graph and a line graph to see which one would be the best to display our data.  We also added a title and manipulated the features on the x-axis and y-axis.  The students are now prepared to graph their trout data in the coming weeks.  Nice job 5th Grade Scientists!!

From Graphing in Numbers