Author: Michelle

  • DataBytes in Bite-Sized Lesson Plan Competition

    Our DataByte What is Healthy: Making Sense of Graphs and Data Reported in Media received an Honorable Mention in the Data Science 4 Everyone’s first annual Lesson Plan Competition! The What is Healthy? unit builds on our DataBytes discussion structure, which asks students to interpret graphs and data from media sources using not only in […]

  • Sustained Modeling in K12 Science (A2S)

    From Access to Sustainability: Investigating Ways to Foster Sustainable Use of Computational Modeling in K-12 Science Classrooms (A2S) seeks to support and examine the development of computational modeling as a sustained practice in middle school science classrooms

    Funded by: National Science Foundation DRL-2010413

  • DataSketch

    The DataSketch project explored how middle school students think and learn about data visualization. It involved two interrelated strands of work: (1) research on grade 5-8 students’ existing competencies and practices related to data visualization; and (2) the development and study of a tablet based toolkit for students to create digital ink programmable visualizations that respond to archival or live data stream input.

    Funded by: National Science Foundation IIS-1350282