Procedure:

  1. Select 4 containers of different sizes and shapes.
  2. Pour small test tubes full of water into each bottle and measure the height of the water level after each addition.
  3. Construct a data table including columns to record your data.
  4. Plot all your data onto the same graph. Be sure to follow the graphing technique!! Use the 6 steps to a good graph.

Questions:

Explain how your bottle graph tells you:

  1. which bottle is the tallest
  2. which bottle holds the largest volume of water

How does your graph indicate that the shape of the bottle:

  1. is narrowing?
  2. is widening?
  3. is uniform?


Adapted from:
Marson R., Marson P. (1991) Graphing TOPS Learning Systems