K-12 Activity Kits and Mini-Courses

Data Exploration and Mining Where You Least Expect It (A Deliberate Introduction to Data for the Next Generation)

• Who: Elementary Education 

• What: This kit is a summary of the many ways children interact with information, otherwise known as data, in our everyday lives and how kids can use their surrounding world to learn more sophisticated concepts.

• Why: These activities aim to bring about thoughtful conversation about categorizing and using data for decision making and facilitate deliberate teaching of data organization and visualization techniques using hands-on, accessible and kid-centric data (non-digital)

• Tools Needed: Typical items already found in the classroom or in nature

Me and Visualizing My Data: High School Edition

• Who: High School Education

• What: This mini-course brings data visualization techniques to personalized data collection activities to develop better data organization, parsing, and understanding. Selected data sets are geared toward high school students' everyday lives so they can learn about themselves or their experiences better.

• Why: Aim to learn data visualization techniques while developing critical analysis skills of the data presented to them.

• Tools Needed: a computer, access to Google Workspace