Teacher Resources for Data Science
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Workbook (Teacher’s Edition) [PDF] - A downloadable and printable copy of the workbook with solutions for all exercises.
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Projects
Making Infographics [rubric] Students develop a ratio statement from a dataset of their choice, and then illustrate it via a compelling infographic.
Food Habits [rubric] Students analyze their snacking habits in comparison with data on childhood obesity in the U.S.
Time Use [rubric] Students investigate the amount of time they spend interacting with technology and doing homework as compared with other Americans.
Olympic Records [rubric] Students use scatter plots and linear regression to analyze data about olympic records in running, swimming, or speed skating.
Threats to Validity [rubric] Students pretend to be terrible data scientists who develop and support claims based on faulty sampling techniques (selection bias, bias in the study design, poor choice of summary data, and confounding variables).
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Online Community (Discourse) [link] - Talk with other Bootstrap teachers, ask questions, and share out ideas!
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Collection of Bootstrap:Data Science Desmos Activities [link] - All of our Desmos Data Science lessons, in one place.
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Contracts [link] - A PDF of the contracts pages from the back of the student workbook.
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Bilingual Glossary of Bootstrap Terms (English-Spanish) file
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Other Facilitation Resources
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Implementation Options [link] - This guide includes suggestions for teachers looking spend a week, a month, or a semester teaching Bootstrap:Data Science.
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Homework Submission Template [google form] - Efficiently collect hyperlinks to student work.
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Broadening Participation [slides] - This compilation of best-practices from the CS-Education literature offers guidance on broadening student participation.
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Dataset Tips [link]- We have also compiled some notes on our provided datasets, which we recommend for all teachers before having their students choose a dataset.
Starter Files
Resources that Pair Well with Bootstrap:Data Science
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What’s Going on in this Graph? - weekly intriguing data visualizations by the New York Times
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The Pudding - fascinating, data-rich visual essays explaining ideas debated in culture
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How Not To - friendly potshots at terrible Data Science, regularly posted to social media under the hashtag "HowNotTo"
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Same Stats, Different Graphs - an illustration from Autodesk of why we must see the shape of data and not just focus on the descriptive statistics
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Guess the Correlation - a game-ified resource (built by Omar Wagih) for building intuition for correlation, based on randomly-generated scatterplots
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Sensitive r - an applet from Geogebra that shows how changing a single point can change the correlation coefficient r
Research Paper Files
Here is a brief overview of our datasets.
Every student (or, ideally, every pair of students) will need to save a copy of the Blank Research Paper. A Grading Rubric is also available for the research paper.
Looking for a shorter list? We’ve starred a few good beginner datasets.
The Environment & Health
- Global Waste by Country 2019
- World Cities' Proximity to the Ocean
- Earthquakes
- Air Quality, Pollution Sources & Health in the U.S.
- Health by U.S. County
- COVID in the U.S. by County
- Arctic Sea Ice
Politics
- Countries of the World
- Gerry Mandering
- Marijuana Laws & Arrests by State 2018
- LAPD Arrests 2010-2019
- NYPD Stop, Search & Frisk 2019
- Refugees 2018
- State Demographics
- U.S. Income
- U.S. Jobs
- U.S. Presidents
- U.S. Voter Turnout 2016
Sports
- Esports Earnings
- MLB Hitting Stats
- ★NBA Players
- NFL Passing
- NFL Rushing
Entertainment
- ★Movies
- IGN Video Game Reviews
- International Exhibition of Modern Art
- North American Pipe Organs
- Pokemon
- Music
Education
- College Majors
- U.S. Colleges 2019-2020
- ★R.I. Schools
- Evolution of College Admissions in California
Nutrition
- Soda, Coffee & Other Drinks
- Fast Food Nutrition
Students can also import their own data into a Blank Starter File. They will need to modify this file for use with their dataset, and this tutorial video can walk them through it.
Exercises and Solutions
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These materials were developed partly through support of the National Science Foundation,
(awards 1042210, 1535276, 1648684, and 1738598). 
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