Activity 8
Creating Bar Graphs Baseball Style
 Objective of the Lesson
Students will use their research skills to find stadium seating capacities of the MLB Teams. This information will be gathered and used to create bar graphs. Students will use their graphs
to compare numerical and pictorial data.
Materials Needed
Lesson Plan Procedure
- Access the Internet using your Web Browser.
- Demonstrate the use of OPEN to access web sites for which addresses are already known. This step may be eliminated if students are familiar with OPEN or
if you will be doing the accessing of sites as a large audience/class activity.
- If students have the ability to gather this information on their own, have them list the names of the 30 teams. Then search
and write the stadium name and seating capacity of each stadium found.
- Using the information gathered, assist the students in creating bar graphs.
Younger students may choose to create a classroom pictograph using only the
data from a few teams. Older students may create individual graphs comparing
American League stadiums to National League stadiums. BE CREATIVE!
- If
possible,
scan
either
photos
or
drawings
of
your
graphs.
Computerized/scanned
graphs
may
be
saved
as
gif or
jpeg
files
and
sent
directly
to
the
BatterUp!
Project
Coordinator.
If
scanning
cannot
be
done,
the Project
Coordinator
will
accept
hard
copies
of
student
work.
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