WDS: Exploration Units Collection
Writing Data Stories Exploration Units are comprehensive, 2-3 week long curriculum units designed to build deep data literacy and statistical inquiry skills in middle school classrooms. Centered around authentic socioscientific datasets, these units provide bilingual (English/Spanish) student handouts, slides, and teacher lesson guides.
Intended Audience & Use Case: Designed for science educators, as well as curriculum developers. They provide standard-aligned (NGSS and GAISE II) unit frameworks to help students construct computational data arguments about real-world social and ecological challenges.
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Associated Publications Writing Data Stories units are part of the research reported in several papers including: Lanouette, K., Cortes, K. L., Lopez, L., Bakal, M., & Wilkerson, M. H. (2024). Exploring Climate Change Through Students’ Place Connections and Public Data Sets. Science Scope, 47(3), 18-25. http://doi.org/10.1080/08872376.2024.2340444
Reigh, E., Escudé, M., Bakal, M., Rivero, E., Wei, X., Roberto, C., Hernandez, D., Yada, A., Gutierrez, K. G., & Wilkerson, M. H. (2022). Mapping racespace: Data stories as a tool for environmental and spatial justice. In K. Lanouette & K. Headrick Taylor (Eds.), Bank Street Occasional Paper Series #48: Learning Within Socio-Political Landscapes: (Re)imagining Children’s Geographies. http://doi.org/10.58295/2375-3668.1452