Using Evidence From Data gives Grade 3 students practical Computer Science practice with data and information. Students work with tables, charts, tallies, and simple graphs to compare values, notice patterns, identify evidence, and explain conclusions without relying on guesses.

What Students Practice

The resource builds the connection between collected information and evidence-based reasoning. Students identify information that can support an answer, interpret simple data displays, compare values, recognize patterns, and distinguish a conclusion supported by data from a guess. Key ideas include evidence, conclusion, interpreting data, checking results, and using details from collected information to explain thinking.

Student Tasks

• A dialogue introduces the idea of using data to answer questions rather than guessing.
• A matching activity connects related data concepts and ideas.
• A cloze passage reinforces vocabulary and the process of interpreting information, finding evidence, stating a conclusion, and explaining a pattern in collected results.
• A labeled diagram provides visual practice related to using organized data.
• A reading passage uses a class book-reading example to show how evidence from a table supports a conclusion.
• Multiple-choice questions ask students to interpret tables and graphs, compare values, identify supported conclusions, recognize patterns, and choose actions that use data instead of guessing.
• True-or-false statements check understanding of evidence, conclusions, graphs, and details from the reading.
• Short-response questions ask students to explain why results should be checked, identify evidence from a data comparison, and describe how patterns help explain data.
• An extended response asks students to explain how they would use a table or graph to answer a class question and support a conclusion with evidence.

Teacher Support

The resource includes a separate Teacher Guide PDF with Learning Objectives, Teaching Tips, Discussion Questions, and Common Mistakes. These notes give teachers practical support for introducing data-based reasoning, discussing how evidence supports conclusions, and addressing common misunderstandings.

Classroom Use

Use this resource for Grade 3 Computer Science instruction on Data and Information, independent practice, guided classroom work, review, or discussion-based follow-up. The mix of visual interpretation, reading, selected-response practice, short explanations, and extended writing gives students several ways to demonstrate that their conclusions are connected to the data they collected or observed.