<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><feed xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" ><generator uri="https://jekyllrb.com/" version="4.4.1">Jekyll</generator><link href="https://calcore.github.io/website/feed.xml" rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" /><link href="https://calcore.github.io/website/" rel="alternate" type="text/html" /><updated>2026-08-17T23:47:03+00:00</updated><id>https://calcore.github.io/website/feed.xml</id><title type="html">CoRE Lab</title><subtitle>We explore how computing practices (e.g., programming, data analysis and visualization, computer simulation, GIS mapping) are changing the ways that young people learn and communicate about our world.</subtitle><entry><title type="html">How to be ‘Choosy’: Wrangling Big Datasets</title><link href="https://calcore.github.io/website/blog/choosy/" rel="alternate" type="text/html" title="How to be ‘Choosy’: Wrangling Big Datasets" /><published>2026-07-26T00:00:00+00:00</published><updated>2026-07-26T00:00:00+00:00</updated><id>https://calcore.github.io/website/blog/choosy</id><content type="html" xml:base="https://calcore.github.io/website/blog/choosy/"><![CDATA[<p>“How to be Choosy” provides pedagogical strategies, technical methods, and interactive Jupyter Notebooks and CODAP templates to help educators and curriculum designers make large datasets manageable for classroom instruction. The collection accompanies the <em>Teaching Statistics</em> publication by Wilkerson et al. (2025).</p>

<p><strong>Intended Audience &amp; Use Case:</strong> 
Aimed at middle school, high school, and undergraduate data science and statistics instructors, as well as educational content developers. It serves as a guide for selecting, filtering, and preparing authentic large-scale datasets for teaching.</p>

<h3 id="available-resources">Available Resources</h3>
<ul>
  <li><a href="/blog/choosy-bh100/">Billboard Hot 100 Wrangling Demo</a> (Jupyter / CODAP)</li>
  <li><a href="/blog/choosy-tri/">EPA Toxic Release Inventory Wrangling Demo</a> (Jupyter / CODAP)</li>
  <li><a href="/blog/choosy-guide/">How to be ‘Choosy’ Quick Reference Guide</a> (PDF)</li>
</ul>]]></content><author><name>CalCoRE</name></author><category term="choosy" /><category term="teachers" /><category term="datasets" /><category term="diy-guides" /><summary type="html"><![CDATA[“How to be Choosy” provides pedagogical strategies, technical methods, and interactive Jupyter Notebooks and CODAP templates to help educators and curriculum designers make large datasets manageable for classroom instruction. The collection accompanies the Teaching Statistics publication by Wilkerson et al. (2025).]]></summary><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://calcore.github.io/website/images/projects/choosy.jpg" /><media:content medium="image" url="https://calcore.github.io/website/images/projects/choosy.jpg" xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" /></entry><entry><title type="html">MoDa: Models and Real-World Data</title><link href="https://calcore.github.io/website/blog/moda/" rel="alternate" type="text/html" title="MoDa: Models and Real-World Data" /><published>2026-07-26T00:00:00+00:00</published><updated>2026-07-26T00:00:00+00:00</updated><id>https://calcore.github.io/website/blog/moda</id><content type="html" xml:base="https://calcore.github.io/website/blog/moda/"><![CDATA[<p>The MoDa (Modeling and Data) project combines block-based programming, agent-based simulation modeling, and data visualization tools to support students’ reasoning about complex environmental phenomena. By running simulations side-by-side with real-world datasets, students can test, validate, and refine their scientific theories.</p>

<p><strong>Intended Audience &amp; Use Case:</strong> 
Designed for middle school environmental science and STEM educators, as well as curriculum developers. MoDa provides curricular units (such as wildfire smoke spread and gas diffusion) that allow students to bridge the gap between building computational models and analyzing real-world data.</p>

<h3 id="project-resources--platforms">Project Resources &amp; Platforms</h3>
<ul>
  <li><strong><a href="https://concord.org/our-work/research-projects/moda/">Concord Consortium MoDa Project Page</a></strong>: Official project research details and principal investigator information.</li>
  <li><strong><a href="https://codap.concord.org/">CODAP Platform</a></strong>: The Common Online Data Analysis Platform used in MoDa for data visualization.</li>
</ul>]]></content><author><name>CalCoRE</name></author><category term="moda" /><category term="middle school" /><category term="teachers" /><category term="coding" /><category term="data-analysis" /><summary type="html"><![CDATA[The MoDa (Modeling and Data) project combines block-based programming, agent-based simulation modeling, and data visualization tools to support students’ reasoning about complex environmental phenomena. By running simulations side-by-side with real-world datasets, students can test, validate, and refine their scientific theories.]]></summary><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://calcore.github.io/website/images/projects/moda.jpg" /><media:content medium="image" url="https://calcore.github.io/website/images/projects/moda.jpg" xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" /></entry><entry><title type="html">Rivulet: Python Notebook Tools for Educational Data Retrieval</title><link href="https://calcore.github.io/website/blog/rivulet/" rel="alternate" type="text/html" title="Rivulet: Python Notebook Tools for Educational Data Retrieval" /><published>2026-07-26T00:00:00+00:00</published><updated>2026-07-26T00:00:00+00:00</updated><id>https://calcore.github.io/website/blog/rivulet</id><content type="html" xml:base="https://calcore.github.io/website/blog/rivulet/"><![CDATA[<p>The Rivulet project provides teachers, curriculum designers, and educational researchers with Python notebooks that streamline querying and fetching environmental datasets from public API endpoints. These notebooks act as automated wrangling pipelines, translating complex federal database APIs into clean, structured data ready for science classrooms.</p>

<p><strong>Intended Audience &amp; Use Case:</strong> 
Designed for science educators and curriculum developers. It simplifies the data acquisition process, allowing designers to easily extract local air, oceanographic, or water quality time-series datasets to build custom, region-specific inquiry investigations without writing code from scratch.</p>

<h3 id="available-jupyter-notebook-resources">Available Jupyter Notebook Resources</h3>
<ul>
  <li><strong><a href="/blog/rivulet-aqs/">EPA AQS Air Quality Notebook</a></strong>: Fetches local criteria pollutants and AQI data.</li>
  <li><strong><a href="/blog/rivulet-coastwatch/">NOAA CoastWatch Ocean Explorer Notebook</a></strong>: Pulls ocean temperature and sea level telemetry.</li>
  <li><strong><a href="/blog/rivulet-wqx/">USGS/EPA WQX Water Quality Notebook</a></strong>: Extracts water chemistry and biological markers.</li>
</ul>

<h3 id="next-generation-tools">Next Generation Tools</h3>
<ul>
  <li><strong><a href="/blog/rivulet-next/">Rivulet Next CODAP Plugins</a></strong>: Experimental browser-based data exploration tools that load data directly into CODAP without requiring Jupyter runtimes.</li>
</ul>]]></content><author><name>CalCoRE</name></author><category term="rivulet" /><category term="teachers" /><category term="datasets" /><summary type="html"><![CDATA[The Rivulet project provides teachers, curriculum designers, and educational researchers with Python notebooks that streamline querying and fetching environmental datasets from public API endpoints. These notebooks act as automated wrangling pipelines, translating complex federal database APIs into clean, structured data ready for science classrooms.]]></summary><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://calcore.github.io/website/images/projects/rivulet.jpg" /><media:content medium="image" url="https://calcore.github.io/website/images/projects/rivulet.jpg" xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" /></entry><entry><title type="html">Show Your Work! Computational Notebooks for Educators</title><link href="https://calcore.github.io/website/blog/syw/" rel="alternate" type="text/html" title="Show Your Work! Computational Notebooks for Educators" /><published>2026-07-26T00:00:00+00:00</published><updated>2026-07-26T00:00:00+00:00</updated><id>https://calcore.github.io/website/blog/syw</id><content type="html" xml:base="https://calcore.github.io/website/blog/syw/"><![CDATA[<p>“Show Your Work!” is a suite of free, web-based introductory Jupyter Notebooks designed for K-12 educators and curriculum designers with little to no prior programming experience. Built on learning sciences principles, the project introduces computational notebooks as epistemic tools, letting teachers experience firsthand what it feels like to conduct notebook-based computational data investigations in specific subject domains.</p>

<p><strong>Intended Audience &amp; Use Case:</strong> 
Designed for K-12 teachers, teacher educators, and curriculum developers. It is used as a professional development resource or curriculum guide to help educators envision how to integrate Python and R notebooks into science, math, and humanities classrooms.</p>

<h3 id="available-notebook-modules">Available Notebook Modules</h3>
<ul>
  <li><a href="/blog/syw-intro/">Intro to Jupyter Notebooks</a> (Python / R)</li>
  <li><a href="/blog/syw-stats/">Center and Spread Statistics Demo</a> (Python / R)</li>
  <li><a href="/blog/syw-line/">Time Series Analysis Demo</a> (Python / R)</li>
  <li><a href="/blog/syw-text/">Spatial Analyses Mapping Demo</a> (Python / R)</li>
</ul>]]></content><author><name>CalCoRE</name></author><category term="syw" /><category term="teachers" /><category term="coding" /><summary type="html"><![CDATA[“Show Your Work!” is a suite of free, web-based introductory Jupyter Notebooks designed for K-12 educators and curriculum designers with little to no prior programming experience. Built on learning sciences principles, the project introduces computational notebooks as epistemic tools, letting teachers experience firsthand what it feels like to conduct notebook-based computational data investigations in specific subject domains.]]></summary><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://calcore.github.io/website/images/projects/syw.jpg" /><media:content medium="image" url="https://calcore.github.io/website/images/projects/syw.jpg" xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" /></entry><entry><title type="html">Writing Data Stories: Integrating Data into Middle School Science</title><link href="https://calcore.github.io/website/blog/wds/" rel="alternate" type="text/html" title="Writing Data Stories: Integrating Data into Middle School Science" /><published>2026-07-26T00:00:00+00:00</published><updated>2026-07-26T00:00:00+00:00</updated><id>https://calcore.github.io/website/blog/wds</id><content type="html" xml:base="https://calcore.github.io/website/blog/wds/"><![CDATA[<p>“Writing Data Stories” is an NSF-funded research project that integrates computational data analysis into middle school science classrooms. The project teaches students to construct “syncretic data stories”—multimodal projects that blend academic statistical analysis of scientific datasets with personal narrative and social reflection.</p>

<p><strong>Intended Audience &amp; Use Case:</strong> 
Designed for middle school science and statistics teachers, as well as educational curriculum developers. It provides ready-to-use curriculum structures that scaffold data literacy by linking data analysis directly to real-world socioscientific issues.</p>

<h3 id="available-resource-types">Available Resource Types</h3>
<ul>
  <li><a href="/blog/wds-databytes/">WDS DataBytes</a> (Bite-sized lesson plans &amp; slide decks)</li>
  <li><a href="/blog/wds-launchpads/">WDS Data Launchpads</a> (Scaffolded CODAP data files)</li>
  <li><a href="/blog/wds-units/">WDS Exploration Units</a> (Full 2-3 week curriculum modules)</li>
</ul>]]></content><author><name>CalCoRE</name></author><category term="wds" /><category term="middle school" /><summary type="html"><![CDATA[“Writing Data Stories” is an NSF-funded research project that integrates computational data analysis into middle school science classrooms. The project teaches students to construct “syncretic data stories”—multimodal projects that blend academic statistical analysis of scientific datasets with personal narrative and social reflection.]]></summary><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://calcore.github.io/website/images/projects/wds.jpg" /><media:content medium="image" url="https://calcore.github.io/website/images/projects/wds.jpg" xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" /></entry><entry><title type="html">WDS: DataBytes Collection</title><link href="https://calcore.github.io/website/blog/wds-databytes/" rel="alternate" type="text/html" title="WDS: DataBytes Collection" /><published>2026-07-25T00:00:00+00:00</published><updated>2026-07-25T00:00:00+00:00</updated><id>https://calcore.github.io/website/blog/wds-databytes</id><content type="html" xml:base="https://calcore.github.io/website/blog/wds-databytes/"><![CDATA[<p>DataBytes are quick, bite-sized classroom activities (designed to take 30 minutes or less) that encourage students to interpret and analyze data visualizations related to everyday scientific issues. Sourced from news media and scientific agency reports, each lesson provides classroom slides, discussion prompts, and teacher guides.</p>

<p><strong>Intended Audience &amp; Use Case:</strong> 
Designed for middle school math and science teachers seeking quick computational warm-ups or introductory data literacy exercises. It acts as an easy “on-ramp” for incorporating data-centric discussions without requiring extensive class time or programming setup.</p>

<h3 id="available-databytes-activities">Available Databytes Activities</h3>
<ul>
  <li><strong>Lesson 1: Exploring Carbon Dioxide &amp; Costs for Vehicles</strong><br />
[Teacher Guide (PDF)](https://drive.google.com/file/d/1BobI3dWw2nmvXapFA8EvDnYc3slOxgPW/view?usp=share_link) | [Student Slides](https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1WXvaNshfWfie6AnaQiKtFO8Kg84bNauDhiCfajz-3H8/edit?usp=sharing)</li>
  <li><strong>Lesson 2: Climate Threats</strong><br />
[Teacher Guide (PDF)](https://drive.google.com/file/d/1s4hQEHhlVPZzZ7SSxoodkLWRvoYoNmGW/view?usp=share_link) | [Student Slides](https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/11Zj57f2aBYUTqhYke3YCRvEk64ZaqnjAQ_J9kJ56sIY/edit?usp=sharing)</li>
  <li><strong>Lesson 3: Rising Global Temperature</strong><br />
[Teacher Guide (PDF)](https://drive.google.com/file/d/13qRjTU1Ymp9pJmk50Kytxb1AOQG2Fya0/view?usp=share_link) | [Student Slides](https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1IP0FBOqshWk-HT5nbXxGTUHV-uDpwcVgDq06KR13Niw/edit?usp=sharing)</li>
  <li><strong>Lesson 4: Changes in Fish Habitat</strong><br />
[Teacher Guide (PDF)](https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ORGAoA5cVuy0rNFcaXsItkJ0wlZ0Hoa4/view?usp=share_link) | [Student Slides](https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1bA4AR4awzwP29gqt7S6P5kQK-SSzBJxvn8OHuSMYtEM/edit?usp=sharing)</li>
  <li><strong>Lesson 5: What’s Healthy</strong><br />
[Teacher Guide (PDF)](https://drive.google.com/file/d/1dw81uFYLaDAoW9KxgtFz3ojDxI2iwN2F/view?usp=share_link) | [Student Slides](https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1AL2nh_aQLkbDRQLiV7SGtIjWoGG-MCenSvRV6nO3AcE/edit#slide=id.gc3091b7a92_1_47) | [Interactive CODAP Dataset](https://codap.concord.org/releases/latest/static/dg/en/cert/index.html?url=https://concord-consortium.github.io/codap-data/SampleDocs/Science/E_Sciences/EPA_Future_of_Climate_Change/EPA_Future_of_Climate_Change.codap)</li>
  <li><strong>Lesson 6: Global Temperature Change Predictions</strong><br />
[Teacher Guide (PDF)](https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ZkZUDcVRmEbT8Aw_6d8QfRN5Uc-CYag-/view?usp=share_link) | [Student Slides](https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1WSU7fSzjEnezDf49vNvbQedCRWX88f8lFBJvBVe-Clg/edit?usp=sharing) | [Interactive CODAP Dataset](https://codap.concord.org/releases/latest/static/dg/en/cert/index.html?url=https://concord-consortium.github.io/codap-data/SampleDocs/Science/E_Sciences/EPA_Future_of_Climate_Change/EPA_Future_of_Climate_Change.codap)</li>
  <li><strong>Lesson 7: Tracking Elephant Seals</strong><br />
[Teacher Guide (PDF)](https://drive.google.com/file/d/1NCzFC2sEB0I-NKBeY3lzop5_cm0ztyKH/view?usp=share_link) | [Student Slides](https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1Z9aAqeBoH5p6uXS98VvhaAD9uig0nMX6mj2a0hDJg-8/edit?usp=sharing) | [Interactive CODAP Dataset](https://codap.concord.org/app/static/dg/en/cert/index.html#file=examples:Four%20Seals)</li>
  <li><strong>Lesson 8: Examining Cereal Data</strong><br />
[Teacher Guide (PDF)](https://drive.google.com/file/d/1gKenKQNlPT8ner0h1OK9TTFBEwEgGhQp/view?usp=share_link) | [Student Slides](https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/16QA045KQI_A5nHhjtEIakNzypXw-ioxu_VvwuzAi1eM/edit?usp=sharing) | [Interactive CODAP Dataset](https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1AQfw0Wr_iXsBAJhEifDvG5VdY2lC1a8crvK1t07UhY8/edit?pli=1#slide=id.gd8993304ce_0_2)</li>
</ul>

<h3 id="discussion-framework">Discussion Framework</h3>
<p>To implement these in class, review the official <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1tAnSAZuxPKW8pigpWvjVDd8RlgH0UQ7N4DUVzceWw44/edit">DataBytes Discussion Structure Guide (Google Doc)</a>.</p>]]></content><author><name>CalCoRE</name></author><category term="wds" /><category term="middle school" /><category term="high school" /><category term="teachers" /><category term="diy-guides" /><category term="data-analysis" /><summary type="html"><![CDATA[DataBytes are quick, bite-sized classroom activities (designed to take 30 minutes or less) that encourage students to interpret and analyze data visualizations related to everyday scientific issues. Sourced from news media and scientific agency reports, each lesson provides classroom slides, discussion prompts, and teacher guides.]]></summary><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://calcore.github.io/website/images/news/wds-databytes.jpg" /><media:content medium="image" url="https://calcore.github.io/website/images/news/wds-databytes.jpg" xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" /></entry><entry><title type="html">WDS: Data Launchpads Collection</title><link href="https://calcore.github.io/website/blog/wds-launchpads/" rel="alternate" type="text/html" title="WDS: Data Launchpads Collection" /><published>2026-07-25T00:00:00+00:00</published><updated>2026-07-25T00:00:00+00:00</updated><id>https://calcore.github.io/website/blog/wds-launchpads</id><content type="html" xml:base="https://calcore.github.io/website/blog/wds-launchpads/"><![CDATA[<p>Data Launchpads are highly interactive documents built inside the Common Online Data Analysis Platform (CODAP) that act as scaffolded “on-ramps” for students exploring complex public datasets. Each launchpad features built-in background information, multimedia context-setters, data activators, and guided tutorials on graphs, maps, and filtering.</p>

<p><strong>Intended Audience &amp; Use Case:</strong> 
Designed for middle and high school math, science, and social studies educators. They serve as guided classroom demonstrations or initial structured activities to help students build confidence in data analysis tools prior to self-directed inquiry.</p>

<h3 id="available-data-launchpads">Available Data Launchpads</h3>
<ul>
  <li><strong><a href="/blog/wds-launchpads-yellowstone/">Yellowstone Cascade Launchpad</a></strong><br />
An ecological launchpad focused on wildlife reintroduction and trophic cascades.</li>
  <li><strong><a href="/blog/wds-launchpads-calenviroscreen/">CalEnviroScreen Data Launchpad</a></strong><br />
An environmental justice launchpad analyzing socio-environmental pollution burdens across California communities.</li>
  <li><strong><a href="/blog/wds-launchpads-emerald-lake/">Aquatic Mountain Ecosystem of Emerald Lake Launchpad</a></strong><br />
A limnology dataset investigating high-altitude mountain lake ecosystems and climate shifts.</li>
  <li><strong><a href="/blog/wds-launchpads-covid19/">COVID-19 Dataset Launchpad</a></strong><br />
A global epidemiological dataset tracking virus spread patterns and disparities.</li>
  <li><strong><a href="/blog/wds-launchpads-spotify/">Spotify/Billboard Hot 100 Launchpad</a></strong><br />
A cultural data set allowing students to filter and analyze decades of popular music trends.</li>
</ul>]]></content><author><name>CalCoRE</name></author><category term="wds" /><category term="middle school" /><category term="high school" /><category term="teachers" /><summary type="html"><![CDATA[Data Launchpads are highly interactive documents built inside the Common Online Data Analysis Platform (CODAP) that act as scaffolded “on-ramps” for students exploring complex public datasets. Each launchpad features built-in background information, multimedia context-setters, data activators, and guided tutorials on graphs, maps, and filtering.]]></summary><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://calcore.github.io/website/images/news/wds-launchpads.jpg" /><media:content medium="image" url="https://calcore.github.io/website/images/news/wds-launchpads.jpg" xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" /></entry><entry><title type="html">WDS: Exploration Units Collection</title><link href="https://calcore.github.io/website/blog/wds-units/" rel="alternate" type="text/html" title="WDS: Exploration Units Collection" /><published>2026-07-25T00:00:00+00:00</published><updated>2026-07-25T00:00:00+00:00</updated><id>https://calcore.github.io/website/blog/wds-units</id><content type="html" xml:base="https://calcore.github.io/website/blog/wds-units/"><![CDATA[<p>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.</p>

<p><strong>Intended Audience &amp; Use Case:</strong> 
Designed for science, statistics, and social studies 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.</p>

<h3 id="curriculum-themes-covered">Curriculum Themes Covered</h3>
<ul>
  <li><strong>Wildfire Risk and Prevention</strong>: Analyzes regional wildfire patterns, frequency, and disproportionate socio-ecological impacts on vulnerable communities.</li>
  <li><strong>Water Quality and Proximity</strong>: Investigates community water supply sources, pollution variables, and chemical level maps.</li>
  <li><strong>COVID-19 Health Disparities</strong>: Examines public health statistics, spread trends, and regional equity gaps.</li>
  <li><strong>What is Healthy? (Nutrition)</strong>: Sourced from news and media, looking at food label metrics and nutritional data graphs.</li>
</ul>

<h3 id="access-the-resource-folder">Access the Resource Folder</h3>
<ul>
  <li><a href="https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1wfdnU_-zYf6RManPZrybMcdwNS8pbTke?usp=share_link">Google Drive Folder: Slides, Worksheets, &amp; Teacher Lesson Plans</a></li>
</ul>]]></content><author><name>CalCoRE</name></author><category term="wds" /><category term="middle school" /><category term="data-analysis" /><summary type="html"><![CDATA[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.]]></summary><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://calcore.github.io/website/images/news/wds-units.jpg" /><media:content medium="image" url="https://calcore.github.io/website/images/news/wds-units.jpg" xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" /></entry><entry><title type="html">Choosy: Billboard Hot 100 Wrangling Demo</title><link href="https://calcore.github.io/website/blog/choosy-bh100/" rel="alternate" type="text/html" title="Choosy: Billboard Hot 100 Wrangling Demo" /><published>2026-07-24T00:00:00+00:00</published><updated>2026-07-24T00:00:00+00:00</updated><id>https://calcore.github.io/website/blog/choosy-bh100</id><content type="html" xml:base="https://calcore.github.io/website/blog/choosy-bh100/"><![CDATA[<p>This interactive data wrangling resource features a curated Billboard Hot 100 dataset along with guided workflows demonstrating how to filter, sort, and slice large, case-heavy data to fit specific lesson objectives. It helps educators learn and teach data wrangling techniques by focusing on sub-selections of music charts.</p>

<p><strong>Intended Audience &amp; Use Case:</strong> 
Designed for K-12 and undergraduate statistics and data science educators, as well as curriculum designers. It serves as an instructional guide or reference template for preparing large, noisy datasets for classroom use.</p>

<h3 id="access-the-resource">Access the Resource</h3>
<ul>
  <li><a href="https://mybinder.org/v2/gh/CalCoRE/choosy/main?urlpath=%2Fdoc%2Ftree%2Fbh100.ipynb">Interactive Python Jupyter Notebook (on Binder)</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://codap.concord.org/app/static/dg/en/cert/index.html#shared=https%3A%2F%2Fcfm-shared.concord.org%2FHToPHXRqcUKYwdL8KJSJ%2Ffile.json">Interactive CODAP Document</a></li>
</ul>]]></content><author><name>CalCoRE</name></author><category term="choosy" /><category term="teachers" /><category term="datasets" /><category term="data-analysis" /><summary type="html"><![CDATA[This interactive data wrangling resource features a curated Billboard Hot 100 dataset along with guided workflows demonstrating how to filter, sort, and slice large, case-heavy data to fit specific lesson objectives. It helps educators learn and teach data wrangling techniques by focusing on sub-selections of music charts.]]></summary><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://calcore.github.io/website/images/news/choosy-bh100.jpg" /><media:content medium="image" url="https://calcore.github.io/website/images/news/choosy-bh100.jpg" xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" /></entry><entry><title type="html">Choosy: How to be ‘Choosy’ Quick Reference Guide</title><link href="https://calcore.github.io/website/2026/07/24/choosy-guide.html" rel="alternate" type="text/html" title="Choosy: How to be ‘Choosy’ Quick Reference Guide" /><published>2026-07-24T00:00:00+00:00</published><updated>2026-07-24T00:00:00+00:00</updated><id>https://calcore.github.io/website/2026/07/24/choosy-guide</id><content type="html" xml:base="https://calcore.github.io/website/2026/07/24/choosy-guide.html"><![CDATA[<p>This single-page reference guide outlines six primary pedagogical strategies for preparing large datasets for classroom use: three case-reduction strategies (Random, Purposeful, and Build-Your-Own) and three attribute-reduction strategies (Thematic, Mathematical, and Question-Driven). For each strategy, the guide defines the method, evaluates its pedagogical benefits and drawbacks, and maps it to GAISE II and IDSSP educational standards.</p>

<p><strong>Intended Audience &amp; Use Case:</strong> 
Designed for statistics and data science educators, curriculum developers, and learning scientists. It serves as a decision-making rubric for teachers planning to scale down authentic, large-scale datasets into clean, focused formats suitable for classroom instruction.</p>

<h3 id="access-the-resource">Access the Resource</h3>
<ul>
  <li><a href="https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/action/downloadSupplement?doi=10.1111%2Ftest.70022&amp;file=test70022-sup-0001-Supinfo.pdf">Download the Reference Guide (PDF)</a></li>
</ul>]]></content><author><name>CalCoRE</name></author><category term="choosy" /><category term="teachers" /><category term="datasets" /><category term="diy-guides" /><summary type="html"><![CDATA[This single-page reference guide outlines six primary pedagogical strategies for preparing large datasets for classroom use: three case-reduction strategies (Random, Purposeful, and Build-Your-Own) and three attribute-reduction strategies (Thematic, Mathematical, and Question-Driven). For each strategy, the guide defines the method, evaluates its pedagogical benefits and drawbacks, and maps it to GAISE II and IDSSP educational standards.]]></summary><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://calcore.github.io/website/images/news/choosy-guide.jpg" /><media:content medium="image" url="https://calcore.github.io/website/images/news/choosy-guide.jpg" xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" /></entry></feed>