The Invitations to Inquiry initiative provides lesson plans that allow students to work with community and citizen science data from projects hosted on the FieldScope platform. Teachers and students use FieldScope to collect, visualize, and analyze environmental data.

Grade(s)

6-8, 9-12

CODAP is a data analysis platform offered by the Concord Consortium and available for use by teachers and students. The platform includes sample datasets, and allows for visualization, summarization, and interpretation of data, and offers games and modules for students to practice data reasoning skills.

Grade(s)

6-8, 9-12, College

Dillard's has supported the University of Arkansas by providing datasets
that are continually updated. These datasets provide students with a standout experience to both observe real world data as well as the potential issues they may encounter.

Grade(s)

6-8, 9-12, College

Riiid offers datasets of student-system interactions collected by the firm's AI tutoring service. Riiid also hosts some coding competitions for students or teachers who are interested in practicing their skills.

Grade(s)

6-8, 9-12

The CDC & NCHS's Data Visualization gallery contains interactive graphics drawn from datasets related to health outcomes and indicators in the US. This tool provides a collection of high-quality data visualizations that can act as a base for introductory data science lessons, or a deep dive on data visualization.

Grade(s)

All

Data Education in Schools provides a variety of curricular resources for learners grades K-12. These include data sets, lesson plans, and activities across the subject areas. Resources are divided by topic and theme, such as water pollution and seasonal topics, and range from short activities to complete units.

Grade(s)

K-5, 6-8, 9-12

The NYC Open Data project offers a wide range of datasets that are collected and used by the city government. Datasets are searchable by topic.

Grade(s)

All, K-5, 6-8, 9-12, College

This free library provides data sets for students and teachers of statistics to use. In addition to data itself, data sets come with background information and sources whenever possible to provide additional context.

Grade(s)

9-12, College

The Census Academy is a resource provided by the US Census Bureau. It includes an internal data analysis platform to review, filter, and visualize census data, as well as instructional videos with step-by-step guides to different types of data analysis.

Grade(s)

All

Data Nuggets creates collaborative resources (called Data Nuggets) between scientists and teachers so that teachers can use real scientific data in their classrooms. Scientists get to share their work with a broader public and students gain hands-on experience working with actual scientific data. Each Data Nugget comes with a teacher’s guide and activities, some of which are in Spanish.

Grade(s)

K-5, 6-8, 9-12

The Oceans of Data Institute (ODI) has curated a complete list of K-16 data science resources, which includes materials developed by ODI and ODI Collaborators, as well as lessons and activities developed by others that look like promising tools.

Grade(s)

All, K-5, 6-8, 9-12, College

Tuva creates a K-12 data science ecosystem for math and science that includes its own proprietary data science software, lesson plans, and datasets. The Tuva team also offers both live and recorded workshops to enable teacher training in data literacy education.

Grade(s)

K-5, 6-8, 9-12