I highly, highly recommend you pop over and check them out! The Teacher Studio has an excellent post about three hands-on math stations she used with her kids while teaching line plots. You can download the templates for this two-page spread and the recipe cards for free HERE. There are TONS of options for creating different line plots using the recipe cards! They use the recipe cards to create several line plots. On the left hand side, students were each given 6 recipe cards and a prompt.

The foldable is used to show the process of making a line plot. On the right hand side, we wrote a definition (the same one that is on the anchor chart above). Here is the line plot interactive notebook I came up with. They are such a great tool for recording and organizing notes and making learning interactive at the same time. This teacher laminated the bones of it so that she could create a new one weekly… (Source Unknown)Īnd here is one more, another that is from an unknown source, but it's a great one, too! (If you are the owner of either of these anchor charts, please let me know so I can appropriately credit you!) Free Line Plot Interactive NotebookĪgain, it's not secret that I'm a huge fan of using interactive notebooks. Here's another great example of a line plot anchor chart. Here's an example of one with fractions, but there are some other great ones with whole numbers that are a great starting place, especially for 3rd and 4th graders. Anchor ChartsĪfter this introductory activity, create a class line plot anchor chart together. You can download the instruction page for free HERE. Simple and fun, and it is a quick way to show students the bones of a line plot as well as give them a way to remember that each X stands for a piece of your data.

They create a “line plot” using the money, then transfer it into a true line plot with Xs and fractions. They each get a bag of coins (if you want to use whole numbers, you could throw some dollar bills in, too) and sort them out. I created this little lemonade stand activity for students to begin working with line plots. Unfortunately, the list isn't as big as I would have hoped–but that's only because there is a MAJOR lack of resources for this tough Common Core (and other standards, too) skill! Most of what you will find here includes ideas for teaching line plots with fractions, but I have included other, more basic ideas to begin your unit. What do those Xs mean? The numbers on the bottom? YOU WANT ME TO PUT FRACTIONS ON THERE!? I have racked my brain for ways to make this fun and engaging and scoured the World Wide Web for other teacher who have done the same. It's one of the trickiest concepts for students. When I even think of the words, I shudder.

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