Visualizing Student collected Data

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Visualizing Student collected Data

• Students and Elwood Gruschow
• Jamaica High School
• gruschow_at_usa.net

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Science begins with questions

• Best student generated questions
• Most too easy
• Remainder too complex
• Good instructor generated question
• Weak canned question from publisher

• Spring 2005 question
• Is the invasive plant, bush honey-suckle
  increasing in Flicker Woods?

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Measure
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RECORD

• Data in field used clip boards and grid sheets

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Now What?

• Measure the data
• Record the data
• V_______ the data
• Publish to web

• What is the missing word?

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Method of visualization

• Data transferred from field notes to Excel
• Temporary X and Y scales were added
• Excel was used as an X Y data holder
• (removed XY scales)
• Exported to EasyViz using DataBridge

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Visualized student collected Data
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Student Published Data

• Students used EWB from a classroom computer
  behind a firewall with five minutes of
  instruction
• Site has been online for two years and has not
  been compromised
• http//
• teacherspace.ncsa.uiuc.edu/gruschow