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What happens when a diverse group of youth ages 11 through 14 are introduced to data science using authentic, public, multivariate data in an out-of-school context assuming no special prerequisite knowledge? We designed three 10-hour Data Club modules in which real-world data and the questions students asked of such data drove the learning process. Each module was grounded in a topic that youth connected with at a personal level. Youth learned how to use a free online data platform that made it easy to rearrange, group, filter, and graph data. Within the progression of the module, we used youths’ own questions, data moves, and data visualizations to engage them in critical inquiry and foster productive habits of mind for working with data. Our goal was for youth to emerge from the Data Clubs experience feeling empowered to interact with, ask questions of, and reason about and from data.
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Absolute Paleointensity Estimates from Precambrian India and the Long-Term Thermal Evolution of the Earth (Dataset)
Paleomagnetic, rock magnetic, or geomagnetic data found in the MagIC data repository from a paper titled: Absolute Paleointensity Estimates from Precambrian India and the Long-Term Thermal Evolution of the Earth
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- Award ID(s):
- 2016763
- PAR ID:
- 10673677
- Publisher / Repository:
- Magnetics Information Consortium (MagIC)
- Date Published:
- Edition / Version:
- 1
- Subject(s) / Keyword(s):
- Igneous Volcanic Dike Basalt 740000000 2363000000 Years BP
- Format(s):
- Medium: X
- Sponsoring Org:
- National Science Foundation
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