Geographic Alliance of Iowa

Putting Iowa in its place

Making and Interpreting Line and Bar Graphs in Geography

This lesson was created by Cathy Kruse and Elaine Schultz (Forest City School District) for ninth grade students. As a result of this lesson plan, students will use their gained knowledge of line and bar graphs to compare Forest City temperature and precipitation graphs to Iowa's graphs.

Discipline/Subject

World Geography

Human Geography

Theme

Environmental

Climate

Cartography/Maps

Region

Iowa

United States

North America

Five Themes of Geography

Location

Place

Region

National Geographic Standards

1. How to use maps and other geographic representations, tools, and technologies to acquire, process, and report information from a spatial perspective

Iowa Core Social Studies Standards

GE 1. Understand the use of geographic tools to locate and analyze information about people, places, and environments