# ECS Learning to create graphs and charts

**URL:** <https://forum.code.org/t/ecs-learning-to-create-graphs-and-charts/6124>\
**Category:** Unit 5 Best Practices\
**Tags:** computerscience\
**Created:** [November 22, 2016, 7:08am UTC](https://forum.code.org/t/ecs-learning-to-create-graphs-and-charts/6124 "2016-11-22T07:08:15Z")\
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**Author:** ![tawanasw\_40](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/5f9b8f/32.png) [@tawanasw\_40](https://forum.code.org/u/tawanasw_40)\
**Post date:** [November 22, 2016, 7:08am UTC](https://forum.code.org/t/ecs-learning-to-create-graphs-and-charts/6124/1 "2016-11-22T07:08:15Z")

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I simply adore the fact that we can create the things that our students may be very interested in while they are engaging themselves in the academic arena.

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**Author:** ![nicole](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.code.org/nicole/32/1671_2.png) [@nicole](https://forum.code.org/u/nicole)\
**Post date:** [November 29, 2016, 3:29am UTC](https://forum.code.org/t/ecs-learning-to-create-graphs-and-charts/6124/2 "2016-11-29T03:29:40Z")

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There are some really fun ways to engage students with graphs and charts. A fun bell ringer I’ve used before is to project a chart or graph and have students backward design the questions/answers the creators of the chart asked to get those results and were the results what they predicted? Based on the answers what story were they trying to tell - did their questions do the job?