The Educational Development Center has a .pdf file available on its website with a vertex edge graphing project that uses maps with different colors to differentiate state borders. Students solve problems and create vertex edge graphs based on neighboring states and learn to rearrange vertexes to make graphing easier. Illustrated answers are provided as well. The TeacherWeb site also has a printable .pdf file activity for vertex edge graphing. A tutorial and example problems about nodes and edges, simulated airline flight paths and bike paths as vertex edge graphs and matrices are included in this activity.
The Math Workshop has a printable .pdf file activity that uses vertex edge graphing and systematic listing and counting. Students learn about vertex edge graphing by coloring 10 different pictures with the least amount of colors possible, with no common edges sharing the same colors. This lesson plan comes with several card games to print and cut as well. A PowerPoint presentation available on the Web named "Introduction to Vertex-Edge Graphs" includes interactive problems about edges, vertexes and colors used in vertex edge graphs.
Students can practice vertex edge graphing skills with an online quiz available at the Proprofs' website. The quiz prompts students to find the shortest route between given points from a vertex edge graph with many routes and points. Glencoe's website hosts a .pdf file with two examples of vertex edge graphing and seven practice problems. A pet store and a school carnival are used for vertex edge graphing examples, and the problems use a map of an electronics store and a classroom project as scenarios that can utilize vertex edge graphs.
A Word document lesson plan titled "Kindergarten Cooties and Jealous Gentlemen" on the MIT website uses Euler paths and a Hamilton circuit to solve a problem using a vertex edge graph. Students use scenarios of kindergarten and wedding parties to formulate rules, find patterns and test hypotheses using vertex edge graphs. Illuminations offers a vertex edge tool that creates graphs and allows students to explore the functions and properties of vertex edge graphs. Euler and Hamiltonian paths are utilized, and a color palette is provided with this online tool.