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Data Exploration
Course Overview
Course Overview
Students will engage in inquiry-based activities to explore scientific concepts and develop skills in data collection and analysis. They will compare modern methods to data collection & analysis to historic methods. Working collaboratively to design and conduct experiments, students will collect and analyze data, identify patterns and conclusions, and communicate their findings to others.
Learning Targets
Learning Targets
Use a variety of digital and analogue tools, (including but not limited to online search databases, G-Suite applications, Microsoft Office applications, online simulation tools, search engines, projects, surveys, and other activities) to gather, develop, record, analyze and interpret data and information.
Essential Questions
Essential Questions
How can data analysis help us understand the world around us?
Why is it important to analyze data critically?
How can we use data to solve real-world problems?
Instructional Snapshot
Instructional Snapshot
Students will:
Collect and organize data effectively.
Create appropriate graphical representations of data.
Analyze and interpret data to draw meaningful conclusions.
Apply data analysis skills to real-world situations.
Explain how to communicate and publish key ideas and details individually or collaboratively in a way that informs, persuades, and/or entertains using a variety of digital tools and media-rich resources.
Demonstrate ways to create, modify, and use a database (e.g., define field formats, add new records, manipulate data), individually and collaboratively, to analyze data and propose solutions for a task/problem.
Demonstrate how to perform a variety of operations such as sorting, filtering, and searching in a database to organize and display information in a variety of ways such as number formats (scientific notation and percentages), charts, tables, and graphs.
Identify and explain the strengths, weaknesses, and capabilities of a variety of digital tools.
Identify the kinds of content associated with different file types and why different file types exist (e.g., formats for word processing, images, music, three-dimensional drawings.)
Explain how to integrate information from multiple file formats into a single artifact.
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