Part 1-Creating Datasets

How to Make Charts in Google Sheets

Data Analysis Activities

• TINKERPLOTS http://www.tinkerplots.com/activities/data-analysis-and-modeling-activities
• TUVALABS https://tuvalabs.com/
• BETTERLESSON https://betterlesson.com/community/directory/middle_school/data_analysis_and_probability

Online Surveys using Google Forms ( 3 sessions)

Students will create, distribute, and process online surveys of student information(a dataset) using Google Forms

• have students decide which data to collect- favorite Movies? Age? etc.

How to connect a Google form to a spreadsheet?

Collect form responses

1. Open a form in Google Forms.
2. At the top, click Responses.
3. Below, click More .
4. Click Select response destination.
5. Choose from these options: Create a new spreadsheet: Creates a spreadsheet for responses in Google Sheets. ...
6. Click Create or Select.

Related Discussion: What are issues with surveys?

• Sample Size
• Well-mixed
• Bias- See http://steamcurriculum.weebly.com/artificial-intelligence-and-bias.html

Deliverable: Survey with analyzed results using Googlesheet/Google Forms

Part 2- Looking at Datasets(3 sessions)

In these lessons students will look at Data computationally and interdisciplinary with Math, Earth Science(Weather) and computational devices.

• Kaggle: Fun, beginner-friendly datasets
• Boston Weather Data
• Analyze Boston
• Data USA
• Khan Academy: Looking at Data

Deliverable: Graphical Representation and Analysis/Reflection of Data Set

See: Minard's Map of Napoleon's Invasion of Russia 1814

https://www.masswerk.at/minard/