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Data.gov in the Classroom
Learning to understand and analyze data is a key step in becoming a critical thinker. For our nation’s youth to reach their full potential, they need tools, resources, and opportunities. Here at Data.gov, we create the opportunities for learning, challenges for innovation, and resources for exploring the nation and the world.
Shout Out to Teachers
We want you!
Using Data.gov in the classroom? Created a cool app? Developed a lesson plan?
Tell us your story, let us feature your class, let us come to your school!
K-12 Education
Data.gov is also working with the International Science and Engineering Fair to bring Data.gov as a research tool and resource to K-12 students across the globe as they create, innovate, and learn about science through their research and in their schools. At this year’s International Fair in Los Angeles on May 8-13, Data.gov will be making resources available for kids to explore, learn, and analyze government data, and encourage them to create apps and views of that data.
This year Data.gov also continues their sponsorship of the USA Science and Engineering Festival. At last year’s event on the Mall in Washington, D.C. 5,000 students explored datasets ranging from health to energy through Data.gov apps and mashups that made learning fun.
Universities
Data.gov in the Classroom highlights 11 universities and colleges across America that are using the information and lessons of Data.gov to help future generations learn about government data, how to use it, and help create the apps that enable others to do so as well.
- Harvard University, Dr. Karim Lakhani, Data.gov: Matching Government Data with Rapid Innovation, Harvard Business Case Study
- New York Law School, Professor Beth Noveck, Democracy Design Workshop Do Tank, ORGPedia: Corporate Intelligence and Accountability for the 21st Century and Economic Impact of Open Gov Data
- New York University, Professor Christina Goodness, Information and Technology for Socio-political Change
- Oregon State University, Dr. Dawn Wright, Geographic Information Systems and Science
- Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Professor Peter Fox, Data Science
- Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Professor Jim Hendler, Linking Open Government Data (tutorials, apps, and mashups)
- Rice University, Jeffrey Seifert and Jane Fountain, Technology and Policies in the Information Age
- Syracuse University, Professor Ines Mergel, Government 2.0
- Temple University, Steven L. Johnson, Data and Knowledge Management
- University of California, Berkeley, Professor Yee, Mixing and Remixing Information
- University of Michigan, Library, Access to Governmental Datasets at Data.gov
- Yale University, Dr. Laura DeNardis and Dr. Nicholas Bramble, Access to Knowledge
Education in the World
The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development collects information from around the world on education, population, economic output, productivity, labor market, and innovation themes to highlight differences within countries. This data is featured on Data.gov in cooperation with the Department of State.
The OECD PISA (Programme for International Student Assessment), created in 1997, reviews the reading, mathematical, and scientific literacy of 15 year olds around the world. The PISA program goes beyond the examination of whether students have mastered their school's curriculum and asks if there knowledge will translate into skills needed in adult life.
Explore PISA and and other tools and datasets here:
