Mississippi Science FSL.3B.1
The Standard
- FSL.3B
- Students will apply scientific literacy and thinking skills to analyze and interpret data found in various graphics including, but not limited to, those found in sample ACT science passages.
Analyze select data from a simple and complex data presentation (e.g., charts, graphs, diagrams).
2026 Mississippi College- and Career-Readiness Standards for Science · Nature of Science
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students find the data needed to answer a question in a chart, graph, or diagram. They read labels, units, and keys before comparing values or describing a pattern.
What Mastery Looks Like
- A student can pull the right values from a simple table or a graph with several data sets. They can explain their answer using those values and the correct units.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may read the wrong line on a graph or miss a change in the scale. They may treat one data point as proof of a pattern.
How to Assess It
- Put this table beside a two-line graph of the same data: Monday to Wednesday, City A 18, 21, 24°C and City B 20, 19, 22°C. Ask, 'What was City A's temperature Tuesday? Which city was warmer Wednesday? Give both Wednesday readings.'
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give pairs a temperature table and a two-line graph; have them use sticky notes to mark the values needed to compare Wednesday.
Show the two-city temperature graph and ask, 'Does one warm day prove City A is usually warmer? Which points support your answer?'
Play a graph-reading relay: call out a city and day, then have students write the temperature and unit from a two-line graph.
Show a local forecast chart with high and low temperatures; have students choose a day for outdoor practice and cite both readings.
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