Write a contextual story modeled by a given graph. 0606.3.9

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1. Graphing stories (Teach article) - Sketch graphs from ‘story’ videos of everyday events to help students understand the basic features of graphs and how to interpret them.
2. Graphing Story - a video example of graphing a story.
3. Graphing Stories Foldable - a teacher's blog showing how she uses them tof interactice notebooks.
4. Graphing stories - students see short films of everyday events, and then use graphs to describe them.
5. Graphing Stories Collection - Each story comprises a video that shows a practical situation where a measure, such as height or weight, varies with time. The situation is then replayed at a slower rate to help enable the viewer to assess more clearly how the measurement varies and to then plot a graph of the story.
6. Popcorn Graphs Activity - an activity to practice writing stories for graphs with Algebra 1 students.
7. Rate of Change: Connecting Slope to Real Life - a lesson on using slope to find the rate of change accompanied by graphs and explanations.
8. Relating graphs to Stories - This lesson will provide you with the skills you need to read graphs and learn the stories that accompany them. You will also create a story to match the data.
9. Story Graphs - You CAN interpret or sketch a graph that represents a real-world situation by identifying key
   features and intervals.
10. Graph Stories Practice - Which graph could represent the following story?

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