2025 Featured Nearby Data Educator Projects
2025 Featured Nearby Data Educator Projects
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Bridgeport High School | Bridgeport Schools, Ohio
Bridgeport High School | Bridgeport Schools, Ohio
For this interest-driven data project, Mackenzie Krieger tasked his high school math students to pick a topic that was meaningful and interesting to them. The goal for this project was to compare results from their community with people outside of their community. One opportunity provided was to compare high school students at Bridgeport with college students at West Liberty University through the connection with Center for Arts and Education. Students created a brief anonymous survey with a few questions related to their problem statement. The students also developed an infographic and presentation slide deck.
"I wanted to reach out and thank you for a GREAT visit on Wednesday and all of your help with my students’ research. My students were all very appreciative of your help and were amazed at how much you were able to guide them in the right direction." - Mackenzie Krieger
December 4, 2024, Bridgeport High School Student visit to Center for Arts and Education at WLU
Student Topics Included:
AI use in Schools
Opinions on On-line Schooling
Underage Drinking
Relationship Characteristics
Eating Habits
" I know I have said it before, but THANK YOU for all of your help with this project! It is really cool to see how engaged the students are and excited to get their own data to analyze. Now that we have taken some time off of working on them, they ask me every day when we are going to finish it! " - Mackenzie Krieger
Abigail Bennett-Rush: I am conducting research on the topic of different types of schooling such as on-line, in person, and nontraditional learning. The participants will be asked to fill out an anonymous survey sent through email.
Opinion on Online Schooling PDF
Opinions on Online School - Abigail Bennett-Rush.pptxStudent-created survey and communication
Student-created survey and communication
Good Morning,
My name is Abigail and I am a senior at Bridgeport High School. I am conducting a research project to see if people prefer traditional, in-person school or online school. All responses are anonymous and participation is optional but greatly appreciated
Thank you in advance for taking the time to respond.
John Wheaton: I am conducting research on relationship characteristics and seeing how relationships have changed over the years. Participants will be asked to complete a short anonymous survey based on the topic.
Relationship Characteristics PDF
Relationship characteristics - John Wheaton.pptxStudent-created survey and communication
Student-created survey and communication
Hello to all, my name is Johnathan Wheaton and I am a senior at Bridgeport high school. I am sending you this email as part of research on relationship characteristics and would like you to complete a breif survey on the topic. The survey will be linked below. All responses are anonymous and participation is optional, but greatly appreciated. Thank you in advance for your participation and have a good day
John Wheaton
Lyrik Brown: I am conducting an anonymous survey on students and graduates opinions on AI use in schools. The survey will be sent through email. The participants will then answer questions on how they feel about the topic.
AI Use in Schools PDF
AI Use in Schools - Lyrik Brown.pptxStudent-created survey and communication
Student-created survey and communication
Hello, my name is Lyrik Brown and I am a senior at Bridgeport High School. I am conducting research on AI usage in schools and would like you to complete a brief survey on the topic. This survey is completely anonymous and although it is optional, participation is greatly appreciated.
Thank you
-Lyrik
Rylee McElroy: I am conducting an anonymous survey on students and graduates opinions on AI use in schools. The survey will be sent through email. The participants will then answer questions on how they feel about the topic.
Underage Drinking PDF
Underage Drinking - Rylee McElroy.pptxStudent-created survey and communication
Student-created survey and communication
As a senior at Bridgeport Highschool I am conducting a research project on underage drinking and would like you to consider completing a brief survey on the topic. Participation is optional but greatly appreciated and all responses are completely anonymous and will not require you to sign in.
Thank you for your participation,
Rylee McElroy
Zachary Diloretta: I am conducting a research project on how people’s eating habits and physical activity levels may differ depending on whether they are an athlete or not an athlete. The project includes a brief anonymous survey sent through email for willing participants.
Eating Habits PDF
Eating Habits - Zach DiLoretta.pptxStudent-created survey and communication
Student-created survey and communication
Hello, my name is Zachary DiLoretta and I am a senior at Bridgeport High School. I am conducting research about eating habits in non-athletes and athletes and would like you to take a quick survey. The survey is completely optional and anonymous and your participation is appreciated.
Thanks, Zach
Mr. Mackenzie Krieger is a Bridgeport High School Math Teacher in Bridgeport, Ohio. He has experience teaching many traditional math courses such as algebra, calculus, and dual credit college courses. Most recently, he has been instrumental in implementing alternative math pathways in Ohio, especially schools in Belmont County by being a pilot teacher and advocate for a new course titled Advance Quantitative Reasoning, formerly known as MMR. Through this new course, Mackenzie prides himself on his ability to get students excited about math by introducing them to its real-life applications.
Steenrod Elementary School | Ohio County Schools, West Virginia
Steenrod Elementary School | Ohio County Schools, West Virginia
Terre Brubaker: In the summer of 2024, I attended the inaugural meeting of the Nearby Data Project led by Lou Karas at West Liberty University. As an interventionist for kindergarten through third grade, I focused on elementary applications for using data.
The activity that fit my needs was the Data Selfie.
Even my kindergarteners know the meaning of “taking a selfie!” It was a unique opportunity for the students to create a picture of themselves without using a cell phone.
DATA SELFIE ACTIVITY | ELEMENTARY EDUCATION
We are constantly generating data as humans with our daily activities. Find out what happens when we can visually see our data with abstract symbols and designs.
Follow each of the steps and pay close attention to the specific colors you should use and the placement of each symbol.
Every student received a rectangular piece of paper. Then I orally gave directions for each piece of information to include on their selfie. The first instruction was “Draw one blue circle on the left side of your paper for each year you are old.” This continued with a variety of topics such as the students’ number and gender of siblings, eye color, number and types of pets, favorite school subject, favorite food, etc.
This was an effective informal assessment. From the end product I could deduce a variety of things: who was accustomed to following directions, who knew left from right, top from bottom, who could identify colors, and who needed support with pencil grip to name a few of the assessment points.
The children thoroughly enjoyed this activity! They also learned new information about each other. I offered to hang the selfies in the hallway; but they wanted to take them home and share with their grown-ups. This was an enjoyabIe way to learn about my new students. I would definitely recommend this activity to elementary teachers!
Terre Brubaker | Connected Classroom | Summer II 2024 | Reflection
We can collect and analyze data. However, we can go beyond spreadsheets, bar graphs, and pie charts to produce creative visual representations of that data.
Why would we want to create visual representations? Depicting data with visual representations will teach our visual learners more easily than with a spreadsheet. When we ask our learners to create visual presentations of the data they collect and analyze, we offer them the opportunity to make choices and direct their learning. It gives them a creative way to tell their stories and see patterns.
According to Allied Media Products, a non-profit organization that focuses on media, art, and technology, high volumes of data are collected globally through a variety of sources including sensors, digital cameras, and cell phones. The low cost of storage allows the data to be saved and deeply mined. They can analyze human behavior trends and use that information to manipulate subliminal messages and sales. They can see our data to benefit people and businesses other than that of the data makers. Big Data uses our data to identify trends in human behavior This is scary and seems to me to be an invasion of our privacy.
How do we humanize data? We create data every day. We need to own it and change the way we think out it. Before listening to this presentation, I felt helpless to stop Big Data from collecting my information. I felt empowered just listening and knowing others are concerned too.
Data selfies and data postcards are two ways to humanize data. In my extended school year class, we made data selfies. The process of creating them also serves as a beneficial listening activity for the students. It can also serve as a formative assessment. I collected everyone's selfies, and then we guessed who the creator was. Some of the students quite easily remembered the meaning of the symbols and verbally analyzed the seIfie! I plan on tweaking the questions and using this activity at the beginning of the school year.
Later in the school year, I would like to use the data collecting and subsequent visual representation project. We would complete the first collection together as a group project. Once I see the success of this project, I could have the children work in groups to make their own questions, collections, and visual representations. Perhaps it could morph into an after school project!
Terre Brubaker is a K-3 reading and math interventionist at Steenrod Elementary School in Wheeling, West Virginia. A veteran teacher with many years of experience, she is known for her passion for teaching our youngest learners. In 2005 she earned a Masters degree in Literacy from West Virginia University. To add to her knowledge base, she studied and became certified at the associate level by the Orton-Gillingham Academy. Brubaker credits The Nearby Data Project with helping her make more real world connections in her math intervention lessons for the 2025-2026 school year.
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