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Meadowlark School Water-Use Picture Graph Design Worksheet

A grade 3 worksheet where students design icons for a scaled picture graph of a school's weekly water use and answer how-many-more questions.

Objectives

  1. Students will draw a scaled picture graph using one icon to stand for five liters.
  2. Students will answer how-many-more and total questions from the graph.

Vocabulary

Key words: picture graph, key, scale, icon

Teacher overview

Meadowlark School is a made-up school where a grade 3 class tracked the water used at four spots in one week. This worksheet gives students that data and asks them to design a scaled picture graph, where one water-drop icon stands for five liters. Students draw their own drop icon and a key, then read the finished graph to answer how-many-more and how-many-in-all questions. The art task and the math task work together, because a clear icon and key are what make the graph easy to read.

Here is the water used at each spot in one week:

  • Garden hose: 25 liters
  • Kitchen sink: 15 liters
  • Water fountain: 10 liters
  • Mop bucket: 20 liters
Meadowlark School Water-Use Picture Graph Design Worksheet — Grade 3 Art & Music
Name: ____________________________ Date: ______________

Student Worksheet

Use one water drop to stand for 5 liters. Draw your own drop icon first.

  1. Draw a picture graph for the four spots. Use one drop for each 5 liters.
  2. How many drops do you draw for the garden hose?
  3. How many drops do you draw for the water fountain?
  4. The kitchen sink used 15 liters. How many drops is that?
  5. Which spot used the most water?
  6. Which spot used the least water?
  7. How many more liters did the garden hose use than the water fountain?
  8. How many liters did the sink and the mop bucket use together?
  9. How many liters did all four spots use in all?
  10. Draw a key for your graph. Then tell in one sentence why a key helps a reader.

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Answer Key
  1. Answer: A picture graph with 5 drops for the garden hose, 3 for the kitchen sink, 2 for the water fountain, and 4 for the mop bucket. Each drop stands for 5 liters.
  2. Answer: 5 drops. 25 liters divided into groups of 5 is 5 drops.
  3. Answer: 2 drops. 10 liters divided into groups of 5 is 2 drops.
  4. Answer: 3 drops. 15 liters divided into groups of 5 is 3 drops.
  5. Answer: Garden hose. At 25 liters, it used the most.
  6. Answer: Water fountain. At 10 liters, it used the least.
  7. Answer: 15 liters. The hose used 25 and the fountain used 10, and 25 minus 10 is 15.
  8. Answer: 35 liters. The sink used 15 and the mop bucket used 20, and 15 plus 20 is 35.
  9. Answer: 70 liters. Add 25 plus 15 plus 10 plus 20, which is 70.
  10. Answer: A key that shows one drop stands for 5 liters, with a sentence such as "The key tells the reader how much one drop means." Accept any clear reason.

Differentiation

Support

Give students grid paper with the four spot names already written in a column, so they only need to draw the correct number of drops in each row. Let them skip-count by fives out loud while drawing.

Extension

Ask students to add a fifth spot that used 30 liters, draw its row, and write a new how-many-more question comparing it to one other spot, with the answer.

ELL supports

Provide a small picture next to each spot name (a hose, a sink, a fountain, a bucket) so the words are supported by images. Give a sentence frame for item 10: "A key helps a reader because ___."

Extensions

Have students count the water spots in their own classroom or hallway, pick one to estimate, and sketch a single drop icon they would use if they built a real picture graph of that spot's use.