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  • Workbook (Teacher’s Edition) [PDF] - A downloadable and printable copy of the workbook with solutions for all exercises.

  • Projects

    Making Infographics [rubric] Students develop a ratio statement from a dataset of their choice, and then illustrate it via a compelling infographic.

    Food Habits [rubric] Students analyze their snacking habits in comparison with data on childhood obesity in the U.S.

    Time Use [rubric] Students investigate the amount of time they spend interacting with technology and doing homework as compared with other Americans.

  • Online Community (Discourse) [link] - Want to ask a question or pose a lesson idea for other Bootstrap teachers? Want to be kept up-to-date about Bootstrap events, workshops, and curricular changes? Our new discussion forum is the place to do it.

  • Collection of Bootstrap:Data Science Desmos Activities [link] - Love Desmos as much as we do? We have plenty of Desmos activities infused throughout our Data Science lessons, and you can explore all of them in one place.

  • What’s Going on in this Graph? [nytimes.com] - Once a week, the NYTimes posts an interesting data visualization. This is a great resource to spark the curiosity of young data scientists, and make for a perfect Notice & Wonder activity!

  • The Pudding [link] - Terrific deep dives into data analysis for interesting topics. Another wonderful resource for students, with great animations showing the transformation of how data is visualized as the research questions evolve.

  • "How Not To" [Discourse.org] - We regularly post to social media under the hashtag #HowNotTo, taking a few friendly potshots are examples of terrible Data Science out there. Over on our teacher discussion board, we’ve kept a running tally of all of them!

  • "Same Stats, Different Graphs" - [autodesk.com] - A wonderful illustration of why it’s so important to see the _shape of data, and not just focus on the descriptive statistics.

  • Guess the Correlation [link] - a game-ified resource for building intuition for correlation, based on randomly-generated scatterplots.

Workshop Files

Exercises and Solutions

Bar Chart - Notice and Wonder

Exploring Displays

(More) Exploring Displays

Practice Plotting

Function Cards

What Table Do We Get?

The Design Recipe: is-dog / is-female

The Design Recipe: is-old / name-has-s

Chaining Methods

Chaining Methods 2: Order Matters

Table Transformations with Method Chaining

Sampling and Inference

Predictions from Samples

Grouped Samples from the Animals Dataset

Displaying Data

Other Facilitation Resources

  • Homework Submission Template

  • Broadening Participation [Google Slides] - Making computing relevant, accessible and welcoming to all students isn’t a pipe-dream. Like anything else worth doing, it takes some good practice and a desire to do it right and keep improving. We’ve put together some pointers based on best-practices from the CS-Education literature, for Bootstrap teachers or anyone looking to broaden participation in Computer Science.

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