DIFFERENT TYPES OF CHARTS/GRAPHSAnd how they can be used for understanding history.

Nathan B. Gilson

7th Grade Social Studies

Southwest Middle School

COPY THIS TABLE INTO YOUR NOTES (SECTION 2)

Name (Chart Type)

Looks Like… Used for

Pie Chart Leave a lot of

Line Graph space here for pictures

Column/Bar graph of your charts

Scatter Plot graph

Histogram

PIE CHARTS

Pie charts are good to show how much of something is compared to everything.

ALWAYS show a PERCENTAGE%

LINE GRAPHS

Line Graphs show how things change over TIME.

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 90

100

200

300

400

500

600

700

800

900

1000

US Deaths--Iraq War

US Deaths

COLUMN OR BAR GRAPHS

Show how different areas compare using one focus. Usually when you want to show the number, rather than the percentage.

SCATTER PLOT GRAPH

Shows how a group rates as a group.

0 5 10 15 20 25 30 350%

200%

400%

600%

800%

1000%

1200%

Series1Series2Series3Series4

HISTOGRAM

Special bar graph that shows different sub-groups or categories within one large group.

USING MICROSOFT EXCEL TO MAKE A GRAPH

Step 1—Put the Graph Title in A1

USING MICROSOFT EXCEL TO MAKE A GRAPH

Put the headings for each set of data in B1 to B__

USING MICROSOFT EXCEL TO MAKE A GRAPH

Put the data underneath each title and double check that you entered it right, it’s real easy to miss a 0 somewhere.

USING MICROSOFT EXCEL TO MAKE A GRAPH

Starting in A1, click and drag to make a highlighted box around all of the information you want on your graph, then click insert

USING MICROSOFT EXCEL TO MAKE A GRAPH

Choose the kind of chart/graph you want from the options listed.

USING MICROSOFT EXCEL TO MAKE A GRAPH

Check your chart to make sure it looks right. Obvious things would be something that should be the biggest looks small. You probably missed 1 number.

For this graph, Russia should be the biggest, but it isn’t, because it’s missing a 0. Don’t worry, you don’t have to do it all over again, just change the number and the graph will automatically change with the new information.

Just click in the box where Russia’s number is, change the 0, and watch your chart change

1. Click here

2. Change Number here

MUCH BETTER

http://images.wikia.com/war/images/1/18/WorldWarII-MilitaryDeaths-Allies-Piechart.png

http://net.lib.byu.edu/~rdh7//wwi/memoir/docs/statistics/diagrams/d62.gif

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_qSHyxqn-vs0/TPsbyF0OqSI/AAAAAAAAACc/zwIEFIbNmA0/s1600/histogram.gif