Data Puzzles
Making Sense With Science
Are you looking for ways to bring authentic and relevant scientific data into your classroom? You've come to the right place! Data Puzzles combine classroom-friendly scientific datasets with the research-backed pedagogical practices of Ambitious Science Teaching to give your students the ultimate inquiry-based learning experience.
We believe that students should learn science the same way scientists do - through exploration, discovery, and sense-making grounded in observations of the natural world. In a way, science is like a puzzle - the bigger picture is revealed after hunting for and putting the pieces together. Our planet is full of exciting and intriguing phenomena - invite them into your science classroom today!
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Upcoming Events
Data Sensemaking Practices in the Not All Warming is Equal Data Puzzle lesson
Calling all middle school science teachers to participate in a 2-part pilot webinar series focused on specific data sense-making practices. Engage with the Data Puzzles lesson Not All Warming is Equal using the Notice, Think, Wonder strategy.
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Data Sensemaking Practices in the Megadrought Data Puzzle lesson
Calling all middle school science teachers to participate in a 2-part pilot webinar series focused on specific data sense-making practices. Engage with the Data Puzzles lesson Megadrought in the Colorado River Basin using the Zoom In strategy.
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Data Puzzles Webinar: Balancing Act, the Changing Greenland Ice Sheet
Calling all middle and high school science teachers for a 2-day virtual workshop with CU Boulder curriculum developer, Alyse Thurber, on the Balancing Act Data Puzzles. Investigate the question "What factors have contributed to changes in the Greenland Ice Sheet in recent decades?"
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Integrating Data Puzzle lessons into your curriculum: A case study using the Not All Warming is Equal lesson
Inviting all middle school science teachers to participate in a pilot webinar focused on cohesively integrating Data Puzzle lessons into your curriculum. Dive into the big science ideas embedded in the Not All Warming is Equal Data Puzzles lesson and collaboratively make connections between the lesson and the Essential Principles of Climate Science.
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Program Team
Publications
Griffith, J., Braaten, M., Dubick, A., & Gold, A. (Accepted). From Windy Day Stories to Wind Farms of the Future: Leveraging student resources to make sense of science phenomena with Data Puzzles. NSTA Science Scope.
