Please reflect on and share something about your experience teaching data science in K-12 classes, and your students’ experience learning data science in that environment. Some starting points for reflection may include:
Which content standard(s) did your data science lessons and activities support? How do you think incorporating data science affected your students’ ability to achieve those standards?
What was different about student engagement with those lessons, as opposed to a typical lesson in your class?
What challenges did you encounter in planning and delivering those lessons?
Please do not publicly call out your students. The forum is indexed publicly by search engines, and sharing this information publicly may have long-lasting consequences on a student’s psyche, in addition to possibly constituting a FERPA violation.
I will be visiting an elementary school on 9/20 to see a 4th grade class pair up with their 1st grade math buddies. The 4th graders will be teaching the 1st graders about the data life cycle. Together they will ask questions, collect data, represent their data, then analyze/interpret to tell a story. I am so looking forward to it – this is an extension / follow up to the grant I am co-leading (along with Jessica) called Project IDEEM. Elementary teachers are modifying activities they completed during our summer workshop and adapting them to their setting.
I am curious to see how they follow up with their work around data, data visualizations, and story telling. The sky is the limit!
