Creating Data Viz Activity Tool: This tool provides step by step details on how to create data visualization activities for teaching that are engaging and relevant to your students.
Scaffolding and Student Agency in Data Investigations: This tool provides suggestions on how to scaffold data investigations for your students and balancing that with creating space in the process for student to have agency over the process. We also suggest a progression.
Framing a Problem: This tool presents a framework and suggestions for how to help students develop a statistical argument during the initial framing of the problem in a data investigation.
Communicate and Take Action: This tool provides suggestions for how to support students in developing a statistical argument at the end of a data investigation to communicate and persuade an audience and plan action steps.
Connecting Standards, Questions, and Data (NC Version): This tool shows how teachers can work from their state standards, which generally focus on exploring and visualizing data, to then consider what kind of data is necessary and questions could be used to frame a data investigation around a given standard.
Data Investigation Pathways: This tool provides a flowchart through the data investigation process for the five main types of data analysis common in grades 6-12 mathematics standards.
Creating a Food Access Dataset in CODAP: This tool provides step by step directions on how to take data from the USDA Food Access Atlas and Upload it in CODAP to do spatial data analysis.
Statistics Communication Sentence Starters: This document provides sentence starters you can share with your students as relevant to help scaffold the communication process.
Data Investigation Planning: This document helps you to plan out the basic structure and flow of a data investigation.
Frame the Problem for Students: This document can be used as a starting point for creating a worksheet to support students in framing a problem for a data investigation.
Consider, Process, Explore, Visualize, and Model for Students: This document provides a helpful starting point for creating a scaffolded worksheet for the consider, process, explore, visualize, and model data aspects of a data investigation.
Statistical Argument Organizer: This document can be given to students to help support them in creating a data-based argument connecting their claims, evidence and reasoning.
Evaluating Evidence and Reasoning Rubrics: This document contains rubrics and a format for scaffolding students in evaluating and providing feedback to one another about their data-based arguments.