Creating your own data
Collect, measure, and document data accurately using appropriate tools and methods.
K–2 Competencies
Anticipate variability in measurement.
Use either standard (e.g., inches, feet, miles) or nonstandard (e.g., paperclips, shoes) units to determine a physical quantity (e.g., width of a table) and understand the importance of standard units for consistency.
Begin to coordinate multiple variables of the same observation (e.g., measure more than one variable of an object or event).
Classroom resources
Data Science Starter Kit Module 2: Getting Data Ready - Creation and Curation
Welcome to the hands-on world of data collection and organization! This module focuses on where data comes from and how to make it useful for investigation.🔗
Creation and Curation isn’t about turning your students into professional researchers. It’s about helping them understand that data doesn’t just appear—it’s collected by people making decisions about what to measure and how. Whether students are conducting their own surveys or using existing datasets, they need to understand how data gets from the messy real world into organized, analyzable formats.
3–5 Competencies
Understand that a variable measures the same characteristic on several individuals or objects.
Recognize and apply measurement precision, including why repeated measurements may vary and how to choose appropriate precision levels.
Identify the characteristics of an event or object that can be measured.
Plan and conduct measurements by identifying measurable characteristics and collecting both categorical and numerical variables of objects/events.
Classroom resources
Data Science Starter Kit Module 2: Getting Data Ready - Creation and Curation
Welcome to the hands-on world of data collection and organization! This module focuses on where data comes from and how to make it useful for investigation.🔗
Creation and Curation isn’t about turning your students into professional researchers. It’s about helping them understand that data doesn’t just appear—it’s collected by people making decisions about what to measure and how. Whether students are conducting their own surveys or using existing datasets, they need to understand how data gets from the messy real world into organized, analyzable formats.
6–8 Competencies
Create an ordinal scale of measurement.
Understand that data is information collected and recorded with a purpose.
Distinguish between human-derived data from images, sounds, and text vs. computer-derived data from images, sounds, and text.
Classroom resources
Data Science Starter Kit Module 2: Getting Data Ready - Creation and Curation
Welcome to the hands-on world of data collection and organization! This module focuses on where data comes from and how to make it useful for investigation.🔗
Creation and Curation isn’t about turning your students into professional researchers. It’s about helping them understand that data doesn’t just appear—it’s collected by people making decisions about what to measure and how. Whether students are conducting their own surveys or using existing datasets, they need to understand how data gets from the messy real world into organized, analyzable formats.
9–10 Competencies
Create a data dictionary to document the data collection process.
Classroom resources
Data Science Starter Kit Module 2: Getting Data Ready - Creation and Curation
Welcome to the hands-on world of data collection and organization! This module focuses on where data comes from and how to make it useful for investigation.🔗
Creation and Curation isn’t about turning your students into professional researchers. It’s about helping them understand that data doesn’t just appear—it’s collected by people making decisions about what to measure and how. Whether students are conducting their own surveys or using existing datasets, they need to understand how data gets from the messy real world into organized, analyzable formats.
11–12 Competencies
Evaluate and critique measurement validity, reliability, and bias in data collection methods, and design comprehensive datafication strategies that address ethical considerations and potential sources of measurement error.
Classroom resources
Data Science Starter Kit Module 2: Getting Data Ready - Creation and Curation
Welcome to the hands-on world of data collection and organization! This module focuses on where data comes from and how to make it useful for investigation.🔗
Creation and Curation isn’t about turning your students into professional researchers. It’s about helping them understand that data doesn’t just appear—it’s collected by people making decisions about what to measure and how. Whether students are conducting their own surveys or using existing datasets, they need to understand how data gets from the messy real world into organized, analyzable formats.
Advanced Competencies
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