This is a list of topics for classroom graphs. I did not create this list - it comes from teachers.net and was shared on the KinderKorner list serve. If you go to the KinderKorner archives and search "graph" you may find even more!
I like to use a graphing question on my Morning Message during the Morning Meeting. (I use the Responsive Classroom approach for my Morning Meeting.) It keeps all the children actively involved.
How Do You Like Your Apples?
sliced sauce baked
Which do you like to color with? crayon marker
Does your jacket have a hood? yes no
Which milk do you like? white chocolate
What do you wear to keep your hands warm? mittens Gloves
How Do You Fasten your Shoes? buckles laces velcro
Have You Ever Gone Fishing? yes no
How many Letters are in Your Name?
Do You Brush and Floss? Brush Only Brush and Floss
Would You Rather Have a Pet with ... Fur Fins Feathers
What Kind Of Pizza Do You Like? Cheese Pepperoni Sausage
Which Soup Do You Like Best? Chicken Noodle Vegetable Tomato
Do You Like Watermelon? YES NO
What is Your Favorite Meal? BREAKFAST LUNCH DINNER
Have You Ever Been to the Beach? YES NO
Which do You Like Best? Celery Carrot
How Old Are You? 5 6 7
Do you like to play inside or outside on a rainy day? inside outside
What is Your Favorite Dessert? Ice cream Cake pie
What is your favorite sport? football baseball basketball
How many people in your family?
Which fast-food restaurant do you like best? Wendy's Burger King
McDonald's
How Do You Feel Today? Happy Mad Sad
Is your shirt Striped print plaid or solid?
What time did you go to sleep last night? 8 O'CLOCK 9 O'CLOCK
LATER THAN 9:30
How many televisions are in your house? 1 2 3 or more
Which holiday do you like best? Halloween Thanksgiving April's
Fool Day
Are you left or right handed? left right
Using 2 postcards (Ex:
Disney World Sea World) Graph Where you would like to go on vacation.
Using 2 - 3 video movie boxes have the kids graph their favorite
movie.
Provide 2 - 3 cookies and have the kids graph their favorite one.
(ex. sugar creme filled chocolate chip)
Provide 2 - 3 different juices and graph their favorite. (EX.
ORANGE, APPLE, CRANBERRY)
Provide 2 - 3 different kinds of cereal and graph their favorite.
( Ex. cheerios golden grahams Trix)
Color of hair, eyes
Number of boys and girls
Number of letters in names
Type of shoe
Favorite story, cartoon, super hero
Favorite fruit, vegetable
Number of family members
Favorite toothpaste
Number of brothers and sisters
Ways to get to school
Halloween costumes
Types of Halloween candy received
Favorite holiday
Favorite season
Type of home (apartment, house, etc.)
Number of teeth lost
Pets at home
Favorite pizza
Their age
Favorite piece of playground equipment
Favorite summer or winter activity
Yes or No graph
Do you have . . .
Do you like . . . .
Have you been to . . .
Do you enjoy . . .
Are you left or right
handed?
Are your hands clean or dirty when you came into the classroom
this morning?
Back pack/ lunchbox
Coats/sweaters
Color of eyes
Color of hair
Did you sleep well last night?
Do You Brush and Floss? (Brush Only, Brush and Floss)
Do you have a cat, a dog, or other animal?
Do you have a four-legged or two-legged pet?
Do you have a pet or no pet?
Do you have your own bedroom?
Do you like baths or showers?
Do you like to play inside or outside on a rainy day? (Inside,
outside)
Do You like Watermelon?
Do you read every day?
Do you think _______ will sink or float? (Science)
Have you ever been on a plane?
How did you feel about coming to school? Happy or sad
How did you get to school?
How do you feel on the first day of school?
How Do You Feel Today?
How do you get to school?
How Do You Like Your Apples? (Sliced, sauce, baked)
How many languages can you speak?
How many people are in your family?
How many vowels are in your name?
How old are you?
How your shoes are fastened: shoe laces, Velcro, buckles, slip-ons
Is your pet a reptile, mammal, fish, bird pet?
Kind of toothpaste
Lion and lamb graph...cool or warm weather
Long sleeves/short sleeves
Mode of transportation used when their family went on their last
holiday: car, bus, boat, train, plane, etc.
Month you were born
Number of bedrooms in your house
Number of boys and girls
Number of brothers and sisters
Number of letters in your first name
Number of pencils you have in your desk
Number of pets at home
Number of pockets on your clothing
Number of teeth lost
Provide 2 - 3 cookies and have the kids graph their favorite one.
Provide 2 - 3 different juices and graph their favorite.
Provide 2 - 3 different kinds of cereal and graph their favorite.
(Ex. Cheerios, golden grahams, Trix)
Shirt- patterned or solid color
Swimming-lake, ocean, pool
Their age
Time you go to bed
Time you wake up in the morning
Type of clothing worn that day: shorts, pants, T-shirt, sweater,
vest, etc.
Type of job they would like to have when they grow up
Using 2 - 3 video movie boxes have the kids graph their favorite
movie.
Using 2 postcards (Ex: Disney World, Sea World) Graph Where you
would
like to go on vacation.
What are you eating for lunch? hot lunch or cold lunch
What color is your hair?
What did you have for breakfast?
What do you like to receive for presents? (Books, games, money,
toys, clothes)
What do you wear to keep your hands warm? (Mittens, Gloves)
What kind of home do you live in? Single-family, two-family flat,
four-family flat, apartment house, etc. (I found I had to introduce
the concept the day before and have kids check with parents.)
What Kind Of Pizza Do You Like? (Cheese, Pepperoni, Sausage)
What letter does your name start with
What they hope to do (or did) on their summer holidays: go to
another city (go on vacation), swim in a lake, go hiking, etc.
What you like best to write on (paper, chalkboard, magic slate,
etc)
What you like best to write with (pencil, crayon, marker, chalk,
etc)
What you will eat for lunch today?
Which do you Like Best? (Celery, Carrot)
Which fast-food restaurant do you like best? (Wendy's, Burger
King, McDonald's)
Which milk do you like? (White, chocolate)
Which Soup Do You Like Best? (Chicken Noodle, Vegetable, Tomato)
Would You Rather Have a Pet with Fur, Fins, or Feathers
You could ask them to pick between two stories you read the day
before or two computer programs that they have done.
Favorites
Favorite activity
Favorite cartoon
Favorite Center
Favorite coin
Favorite color
Favorite day of the week
Favorite dinosaurs
Favorite food (meats, vegetable, dessert, drink, main dish, fast
food, etc)
Favorite fruit
Favorite game
Favorite holiday
Favorite ice cream
Favorite kind of music
Favorite meal
Favorite month of the year
Favorite penguins
Favorite pet
Favorite piece of playground equipment
Favorite pizza
Favorite rainy day activity
Favorite school lunch
Favorite season
Favorite 'special'
Favorite sport (Football, baseball, basketball)
Favorite story
Favorite story character
Favorite subject in school
Favorite summer activity
Favorite super hero
Favorite thing to read (book, magazine, comics, cereal box!),
Favorite toothpaste
Favorite transportation
Favorite vegetable
Favorite version of a story
Favorite way to travel
Favorite winter activity
Favorite after school activity
Favorite book title
Favorite literature genre
Favorite sport
Favorite time of day: morning, afternoon, evening
Favorite TV show
Yes or No
Are you wearing ______
today? (substitute any color)
Did you brush your teeth this morning?
Did you eat a healthy breakfast?
Do you enjoy . .
Do you have . .
Do you have a pet?
Do you have a sister or brother?
Do you like . .
Have you been to . .
Have You Ever been to the Beach?
Does your jacket have a hood?
Have You Ever Gone Fishing?
Seasonal
At Christmas
Do you believe in Santa?
Do you have a real or artificial tree?
Do you have a wreath on your door?
Do you have Christmas lights out side your house?
Have you hung up a stocking?
At New Years
Did you make a resolution for the New Year?
On Saint Patrick's Day
Are you wearing green today?
At Thanksgiving
Do you eat dinner at home or away?
Do you have turkey for thanksgiving?
List some pies --children put their name under the Favorite one.
Halloween
Favorite Halloween costumes
Types of Halloween candy received


