Teacher Resources for Data Science (CODAP)

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Implementation Options [link] Bootstrap:Data Science was designed to be flexible, allowing for implementations in Middle and High School ranging from 1-week exposures to full-year courses! Find recommendations for the course structure that’s right for you.
Online Community [Discourse] - Talk with other Bootstrap teachers, ask questions, and share ideas!
Remote Instruction [link] - specific recommendations for in-person v. remote instruction.

Exercises and Solutions

Notes, Slides, and Starter Files

Projects

Projects allow exploration of data collected by students themselves or chosen from our library. The Bootstrap:Data Science in CODAP curriculum includes three mini projects, each designed to span 2-5 class periods. We also offer two multi-lesson, capstone projects.

Mini Projects

Design a Survey - Students practice collecting clean data.
Make an Infographic - Students create their own infographics, thinking critically and creatively about ratio relationships.
When Data Science Goes Bad - Students pretend to be "bad data scientists", gaining awareness of how data can be misconstrued.

Multi-Lesson, Capstone Projects

Dataset Exploration - Students explore a dataset of their choice, documenting their journey by creating a slide deck of charts, statistics, and possbible research questions.
Project: Research Capstone - Using the research question they developed during the Dataset Exploration, students create a formal research paper, a slide deck, or both.

All Lesson Notes

The student workbook includes notes for various lessons. You can access all of these notes by clicking the links below:

Dataset Library

Students can import their own data into CODAP or choose from one of the many provided datasets below:

The Environment & Health

Global Waste by Country 2019: Dataset Starter File
World Cities' Proximity to the Ocean: Dataset Starter File
Earthquakes: Dataset Starter File
Air Quality, Pollution Sources & Health in the U.S.: Dataset Starter File
Health by U.S. County: Dataset Starter File
COVID in the U.S. by County: Dataset Starter File
Arctic Sea Ice: Dataset Starter File

Politics

Countries of the World: Dataset Starter File
Gerrymandering: Dataset Starter File
Marijuana Laws & Arrests by State 2018: Dataset Starter File
LAPD Arrests 2010-2019: Dataset Starter File
NYPD Stop, Search & Frisk 2019: Dataset Starter File
Refugees 2018: Dataset Starter File
State Demographics: Dataset Starter File
U.S. Income: Dataset Starter File
U.S. Jobs: Dataset Starter File
U.S. Voter Turnout 2016: Dataset Starter File

Sports

Esports Earnings: Dataset Starter File
MLB Hitting Stats: Dataset Starter File
NBA Players: Dataset Starter File
NFL Passing: Dataset Starter File
NFL Rushing: Dataset Starter File

Entertainment

★Movies: Dataset Starter File
IGN video game Reviews: Dataset Starter File
International Exhibition of Modern Art: Dataset Starter File
North American Pipe Organs: Dataset Starter File
Pokemon: Dataset Starter File
Music: Dataset Starter File

Education

College Majors: Dataset Starter File
U.S. Colleges 2019-2020: Dataset Starter File
★R.I. Schools: Dataset Starter File
Evolution of College Admissions in California: Dataset Starter File

Nutrition

Soda, Coffee & Other Drinks: Dataset Starter File
Fast Food Nutrition: Dataset Starter File

Would you like to contribute a dataset of your own, or is there something you’d like to change about one of ours?

We have compiled some Notes on our provided datasets, to help you decide which might be most useful in your classroom.

Other Curricular Materials

Glossary [link] - All of the vocabulary words (and their definitions) used in this pathway.
Bilingual Glossary of Bootstrap Terms (English-Spanish) [PDF] - For teachers with ELL/ESL students, we provide a bilingual glossary for all of the terms used across our curriculum library.
Blank Data Cycle Worksheet - [html] - When students need scaffolding for answering a question with data.
Collection of Bootstrap:Data Science Desmos Activities [link] - All of our Desmos Data Science lessons, in one place.
Sentence Starters [html] - Use these sentence starters to help students describe patterns, make predictions, find comparisons, share discoveries, formulate hypotheses, and ask questions.

Resources that Pair Well with Bootstrap:Data Science

What’s Going on in this Graph? [link] - weekly intriguing data visualizations by the New York Times
The Pudding [link] - fascinating, data-rich visual essays explaining ideas debated in culture
How Not To [link] - friendly potshots at terrible Data Science, regularly posted to social media under the hashtag "HowNotTo"
Same Stats, Different Graph [Autodesk] - an illustration from Autodesk of why we must see the shape of data and not just focus on the descriptive statistics
Guess the Correlation [link] - a game-ified resource (built by Omar Wagih) for building intuition for correlation, based on randomly-generated scatterplots
Sensitive r [link] - an applet from Geogebra that shows how changing a single point can change the correlation coefficient r

These materials were developed partly through support of the National Science Foundation, (awards 1042210, 1535276, 1648684, 1738598, 2031479, and 1501927). Bootstrap by the Bootstrap Community is licensed under a Creative Commons 4.0 Unported License. This license does not grant permission to run training or professional development. Offering training or professional development with materials substantially derived from Bootstrap must be approved in writing by a Bootstrap Director. Permissions beyond the scope of this license, such as to run training, may be available by contacting contact@BootstrapWorld.org.