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Analyzing and Interpreting Data Using MND

Science educators strive to engage students in authentic investigations that have students analyze data in order to derive meaning. MND provides unlimited opportunities to engage students in data analysis using Earth System data.

Monthly Albedo Reflected from Top of the Atmosphere with Clouds (fraction)

K-2: Analyzing data in K-2 builds on prior experiences and progresses to collecting, recording, and sharing observations.

Behavior Over Time: Analyzing Seasonal Soil and Air Properties

Students review Earth System phenomena that are affected by soil moisture. They analyze and evaluate maps of seasonal global surface air temperature and soil moisture data from NASA satellites.

Data Literacy Cubes (Graphs, Maps, and Data Tables)

Graph Data Cube - Advanced Questions — Example

Blossoms Blooming: Analyzing Plant Growth Patterns

Students analyze historic plant growth data (i.e., peak bloom dates) of Washington, D.C.’s famous cherry blossom trees, as well as atmospheric near surface temperatures as evidence for explaining the phenomena of earlier peak blooms in our nation’s capital.

Data Literacy Cube: Intermediate Graph Data using Soil Moisture Data

Use the My NASA Data Cubes to guide students’ exploration of data to enrich their observations and inferences. This is a flexible resource that may be used with a variety of graphical representations of data. This activity requires a graph for students to evaluate. For the purposes

Data Literacy Cube: Advanced Data with Global Atmospheric Temperature Anomaly Data

Use the My NASA Data Cubes to guide students’ exploration of data to enrich their observations and inferences. This is a flexible resource that may be used with a variety of data, whether the data originates from students' investigations with personally-collected data or data that they have acce

Data Literacy Cube: Beginner Map Data Using Seasonal Vegetation Mapped Images

Use the My NASA Data Cubes to guide students’ exploration of mapped data of the Earth System to enrich their observations and inferences. This is a flexible resource that may be used with a variety of mapped images. This activity requires a map of Earth data for students to evaluate.

The Need for Data Literacy

MND recognizes the importance of data literacy, especially in the Earth Sciences because data are the foundation of science. But what does data literacy look like?