Mini Data JAM
Making data sing a little so everyone can dance a little and tell the little stories.
Mini Data Jam project submissions requirements:
At least one graph to display data that supports the data story (interpretation).
At least one paragraph to explain your interpretation of the data.
A creative project with a brief explanation of why you chose that medium for your story.
(see Mini Data Jam Report template and Mini Data Jam rubric)
Scientists nearly always work in groups.
Student Jam
Jam on your own or collaborate with your classmates. Any group size is allowed and hopefully, by using shared docs and creation tools, you can work together even if you're not in your classroom. You do need an adult supervisor, but it can be a teacher or parent or guardian, whatever works best for you.
Family Jam
Siblings of different ages can work together on a single project. Elementary-age students can participate with guidance from older siblings or guardians. Project groups can be as small as one child and one adult. Family Jam allows parents or guardians to be more involved with Data Jamming, asking their own data questions, assisting with background research, or helping create the creative! Family Jam teams may be affiliated with a teacher/school or enter on their own.
(Adults-- if you want to take over your Family Jam, resist. We'll create a new category for you next year - wink, wink.)
Please read the instructions for submitting. It is a multi-step process guiding you through uploading into your a personalized Google folder on a shared drive.
If you have any difficulty, please email abrickley.edu @ gmail.comGENERALIZED HELPFULS
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These worksheets and resources may help you work through understanding Data Jam, choosing an appropriate dataset level, getting to know your dataset, and graphing your data.
Getting to Know Your Dataset: This sheet guides a student through getting to know your dataset, from prior knowledge to understanding the metadata to graphing the data and analyzing the graph. It will help with report elements but is not a substitute for the final scientific report. (Thanks for JM of Our Sisters School for aligning this document to the rubric.)
Graph Choice Chart: This paper from the NSTA November 2014 issue of The Science Teacher has a chart that helps you choose the best type of graph for your particular science question.
Student Planning Sheet: This planning tool can help you break Data Jam down into small digestible steps with concrete deadlines.
Data Jam Scoring Rubric: This rubric will help guide you towards the ultimate project as it includes a more detailed description of possible components and potential scores.
Content-support videos: This page contains links to some exemplary videos that may help with content background for Level 2 and 3 datasets. Videos are from Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution and from the Univ. Southern California science video competition and also serve as examples on how to properly credit resources used in a video production.