Constructing Graphs
 : Caterpillars
Approach: Stations
40k
Resources: Labelled graph paper and text.

Questions / instructions:
A science museum had a display of live butterflies.
The butterflies produced more caterpillars than the museum expected.

On day 1 there were no caterpillars.
On day 3 there were 120 caterpillars.
On day 5 there were 270.

The caterpillars began to run out of food,
so by day 7 the number of caterpillars had dropped to 150. Extra food was found. When the display closed on the 10th day there were 350 caterpillars.

Show this as a graph.
% responses
y8

selected appropriate format

89
points on x axis labelled
70
appropriate scale for x axis
54
points on y axis labelled
43
appropriate scale for y axis
55
data complete, accurate and properly spaced
38
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