Resources that help students
check the accuracy of visual representations of data
E = includes or is entirely resources for elementary grade levels (none available yet)
News Literacy Project:
"Making Sense of Data" self-paced Checkology lesson
"Can You Make Sense of Data" quiz could be used to check for understanding
Civic Online Reasoning:
"Evaluating Data" lesson
"Evaluating Data" assessment
Ted Ed/Ted Talk:
"How to spot a misleading graph" video
"How statistics can be misleading" video
"How to defend yourself against misleading statistics in the news" video
Other resources:
Project Look Sharp's "Changing Our Media Habits: The Impact of the Pandemic" lesson
New York Times' "What's going on in this graph?" daily activity
Center for an Informed Public's "Uncovering reality" interactive website
Crash Course Navigating Digital Information's "Data & infographics" video
SciToons' "Data Visualization and Misrepresentation" video
"Information is beautiful" website can be used for examples of data representations
"Spurious Correlations" website can be used for examples of data misrepresentations