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Science Notebooks - A website to help facilitate teachers incorporating science notebooks into each class. The notebooks become powerful tools for student reflection, assessment, and teacher feedback. Examples are provided as well as introductory lessons and guides to improve student observation skills, etc.
Looking for Patterns - All of science is the process of finding and understanding relationships and patterns in nature. This link is from a wonderful group of educators in Queensland, Australia for statistics education. Lessons that include data tables, graphs, etc. should be chosen wisely from this website to help students better understand how scientists use statistics in practice.
Found in the Data Table Links section -
DASL Project - The Data and Story Library was created by educators at Cornell University in Ithaca, NY, USA. It includes an assortment of data sets that can be put into software such as Microsoft Excel by cut and paste. The stories are arranged by type of statistical test/graphic, such as histogram or ANOVA, and include text and figure.
Earth Trends - Data tables provided by the World Resources Institute. They include 10 topic areas in five formats. The five formats include... "Searchable Database offers time series data from internationally recognized sources for over 600 variables. Data Tables give global snapshots of each topic area by synthesizing country and region-level information. Country Profiles collect charts, graphs, and vital statistics from each topic area for more than 220 countries. Maps provide a visual representation of global, regional, and country-level environmental information. Feature Stories are articles investigating important conditions and trends in environmental and sustainable development."
Found in the Inquiry section -
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