Content & Skills Support
A summary document for the datasets has been created and is available to registered teachers upon request to abrickley dot edu at gmail.com. But don't feel like you need to know the answers. Students actually love learning things their teachers don't already know! Think together!
Additional links to content or discussions or strategies will also be added periodically to support your work with students as they build their data literacy and science practice skills.
Practice Activities 🆕
The following are supplementary activities to help your students practice their graphing skills. They are designed around datasets that are similar to some of those they may select for their Data Jam projects. Each is designed to guide learners using a specified computer platform that is free and open to all. If you have questions or feedback, please contact abrickley dot edu at gmail.com.
Out of collegial respect, if you use the activities but aren't participating in Data Jam, please sign up for our Schoolyard so we may accurately report our broader impacts to the National Science Foundation.
What is the shelf? What is the ecosystem?
This video series gives an overview of the dynamics of the continental shelf ecosystem, with a particular focus on the shelf break. The shelf break is the offshore extent of the NES-LTER research. Two of the scientists on the SPIROPA project (featured in the videos) are also part of the NES-LTER project.
What makes a scientist?
Blog by Sage Lichtenwalner, Rutgers University
https://datalab.marine.rutgers.edu/2019/01/what-makes-a-scientist/
Storytelling with Ocean Data
Blog and video by Sage Lichtenwalner, Rutgers University
https://datalab.marine.rutgers.edu/2020/11/storytelling-with-ocean-data/
Next Generation Science Storylines*
Content credit: Reiser Lab at Northwestern University*What is a storyline?
A storyline is a coherent sequence of lessons, in which each step is driven by students' questions that arise from their interactions with phenomena. A student's goal should always be to explain a phenomenon or solve a problem. At each step, students make progress on the classroom's questions through science and engineering practices, to figure out a piece of a science idea. Each piece they figure out adds to the developing explanation, model, or designed solution. Each step may also generate questions that lead to the next step in the storyline. Together, what students figure out helps explain the unit's phenomena or solve the problems they have identified. A storyline provides a coherent path toward building disciplinary core idea and crosscutting concepts, piece by piece, anchored in students' own questions.
Source: https://www.nextgenstorylines.org/what-are-storylines
Pedagogy Reference Papers
Data Literacy 101 series in NSTA Science Scope by Kristen Hunter-Thomson and everything from Kristen at www.dataspire.org
References, blogs, explanations, and ideas from Partners in Data Literacy at https://partnersindataliteracy.com/
Send me suggestions if you find articles you find helpful! (abrickley dot edu at gmail dot com)
If you have more questions, please reach out to Annette Brickley (abrickley dot edu at gmail dot com) and she will connect you with resources to support your individual needs.
She will also remind you that this is not a thesis project for students. It's about giving them the opportunity to play with data and do their best to tell a data story based on the patterns they notice and the science content they understand.