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Grade 5 Social Studies · World 1: Tools of the Trade · Level 4
Reading Graphs
Read line, bar, and circle graphs.
Warm-up, learn, try it together, practice, then a quick check. About 15 minutes.
What children learn in Level 4
- Graphs turn numbers into pictures. A bar graph compares amounts. Each bar here is a year, and taller bars mean more miles of railroad. Look how fast the tracks spread!
- A line graph shows change over time. Each dot is a census, and the line joins them. The United States grew from about 39 million people in 1870 to about 151 million in 1950.
- A flatter part of the line means slower growth. Find 1930 to 1940. You'll learn soon why those were such hard years.
- A circle graph shows the parts of a whole. The whole circle is 100 percent. In 1900, about 60 percent of Americans lived in the countryside.
- Always read the title and the labels first. They tell you what the numbers mean.
Georgia Standards of Excellence in Social Studies:
- IPS.12 — Information Processing Skill 12: analyze graphs and diagrams (mastered in Grade 5)