Picture Graphs Resources

A picture is worth a thousand words, but in these exercises they are worth more because they will help your students understand picture graphs. Picture graphs are graphs that use images to represent data, and their use of visual imagery makes picture graphs a fun way for students to learn how to track and analyze data. Lower elementary students start learning about picture graphs with simple graphs featuring smiley faces, and older students can complete worksheets that will help them remember how to read a picture graph. Students will also learn how to determine how much each image in a picture graph represents and then interpret the data. Picture graph resources also give kids a chance to practice representing data by creating their own pictographs. When teaching about picture graphs, you can also review other types of graphs, such as bar graphs.