Box & Whisker Plots Activities and Lessons

No more boring box plot lessons! These activities are engaging and will help your students see how box plots are really useful with real world data. Grab these 5 resources, print, and be ready to go!

Here are the resources included in this bundle:

• Box & Whiskers Real World Temperature Lesson

In this fun activity, students use data about temperatures in a city to create a vertical box & whiskers plot. Then they compare with classmates' cities and discuss what they notice!

• Statistics Cheat Sheets

These give an overview of middle school stats topics, including how to create a box & whiskers plot and calculating mean absolute deviation.

• Space Stats Activity

This math station activity has students using data about planets and stars to create box plots and histograms. They also calculate measures of center and measures of variability.

• Real World Box & Whisker Plots Examples

5 sets of data provided in box plots and dot plots are ready to go! Use these for discussions, comparisons, or create your own questions for students to answer.

• Statistics Practice

This worksheet has practice for creating dot plots, box plots, and comparing data. Use this for extra practice or an assessment.

These activities will help your students see the relevance of box & whiskers plots. Some of the resources also tie in histograms and dot plots. The activities are most applicable for 6th and 7th grade standards, but could also be used to review for Algebra 1.

Grab this set and be ready for awesome thinking and discussions about statistics!