Pets in our class — scale of 2
Our class voted on favorite pets. Eight kids picked dogs, six picked cats, four picked fish, and two picked birds. Let's turn this into a bar graph!
First, we draw two lines — one going up, one going across. These are our axes.
The side going up will show how many students chose each pet.
Along the bottom, we write each kind of pet — dogs, cats, fish, birds.
Our biggest count is eight, so let's skip-count by twos. Each step on our scale stands for two students.
Mark zero, two, four, six, and eight up the side.
Eight kids picked dogs, so the dogs bar goes all the way up to eight.
Six picked cats. The cats bar stops at six.
Four picked fish, so the fish bar goes up to four.
And two picked birds — that bar only reaches two.
Last step — give our graph a title so everyone knows what it shows.
We made a scaled bar graph! Each square stands for two students. Nice work!