Texas TEKS 6.1.F

Science6th GradeScientific and engineering practices

The Standard

construct appropriate tables, graphs, maps, and charts using repeated trials and means to organize data

Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills for Science

Teacher's field guide

What Students Need to Do: Students organize measurements from several trials and calculate the mean for each condition. They choose a table, graph, chart, or map that clearly shows the results and patterns.
What Mastery Looks Like: A student records raw trials and correct means in an organized table. The student selects a suitable display, uses an even scale, and includes clear titles, labels, and units.
Common Misconceptions: Students may divide by the wrong number when finding a mean or graph every trial instead of the means. They may use uneven scales, omit units, or choose a line graph for unrelated categories.
How to Assess It: Exit ticket: A plant grew 4, 5, and 6 centimeters under one light and 8, 7, and 9 centimeters under another. Find each mean and make a labeled graph comparing them.

Lesson moves

Run three toy car trials at each ramp height, record distances in a table, calculate means, and graph mean distance by height.
Display two graphs of the same data and ask: Which graph communicates the result better, and what specific feature helps?
Play a card sort where teams match data sets to a table, bar graph, line graph, chart, or map and justify each match.
Take three noise readings at four school locations, average each set, then create a color coded map of campus sound levels.

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