While this support activity is designed for a face-to-face, synchronous delivery, it should be noted that supporting text and interactive examples have been embedded in the digital assignment page to assist asynchronous or hybrid course delivery and to be made more accessible to students performing make-up work.

Notes for synchronous active-learning delivery

This corequisite support activity supports students in identifying missing or incorrect components of graphs and opens discussions on how incorrect graphs can lead to misinterpretation of data.

Several questions in this support activity are based on students’ perspectives about the graphical displays. In these questions, guide the discussion but do not expect certain answers from students.

Students will need copies of the activity to draw on to make changes to a few of the misleading graphs. [insert pdf of activity for instructors to download here]

A possible homework assignment could be for students to find misleading graphs in the media that incorrectly use the components explained in this support activity.