Data Launchpads are highly interactive documents created with the Common Online Data Analysis Platform (CODAP).
They are designed to provide teachers and students with an easy and flexible “on-ramp” to working with large public datasets.
The materials below are all products of Writing Data Stories, a collaboration between the University of California Berkeley, North Carolina State University, and the Concord Consortium funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF IIS-1900606).
Learn more about CODAP with this online guide, or download this PDF intro!
Data Launchpads Curriculum includes:
- Key background information about the where and how the dataset was made
- Context-setting multimedia to highlight the kinds of questions students can ask with the data
- Activators that encourage students to consider their personal connections to the dataset
- A gentle intro to CODAP showing the most useful tools for working with a given dataset (e.g. plots, bar graphs, maps, data filtering tools)
- A full, analyzable dataset from public sources, adapted to be as easy to work with as possible
- A list of useful next steps that help start exploring the dataset for themselves
Data Launchpads
Each launchpad links to a live, editable file on the CODAP platform
Click through the file’s “Story Builder” windows to view lessons
Yellowstone Cascade Launchpad
CalEnviroScreen Data Launchpad
Aquatic Mountain Ecosystem of Emerald Lake
COVID-19 Dataset
Spotify/Billboard Hot 100 (1958-2021)
This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. (IIS-1900606). Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.