Learning goals: Teacher Facing Compare and contrast (orally) bar graphs and histograms, recognizing that descriptions of shape, center, and spread don’t pertain to bar graphs. Describe (orally and in writing) the overall shape and features of a distribution represented on a histogram, including peaks, clusters, gaps, and symmetry. Identify histograms that display distributions with specific features. Full lesson plan (warm-up, activities, synthesis, cool-down prompt) from 6.8 Data Sets and Distributions, Grade 6.