Data-driven Storyline Design
Analysis and Interpretation Slides
Lower Elementary (K-2)
Upper Elementary (3-5)
Middle School (6-8)
High School (9-12)

Datasets
High School
Middle School
Elementary School
Additional information

• A Human, a Tree and an Octopus

• Beak of the Finch

• Cactus Wren Population Decline

• Coqui Frog in Hawaii

• Eastern Monarch Butterfly Decline

• Earthquakes - Northeastern United States

• Earthquakes - Hawaiian Islands

• Lake Minewaska Fish Population

• Lake Washington Stickleback Evolution

• Levitating Car Data

• Neanderthal and Modern Human Isotopic Data

• Nebraska Deer Mice Evolution

• Mutations that Cause Cancer

• Rainbow Investigation Data Set

• Red-Cockaded Woodpecker Decline

• Red Hill Water Contamination

• Stick Spider Ecomorph Evolution

• Twins of the Night

• White Deer Dataset

• A Human, a Tree and an Octopus

• Barton Springs Salamander

• Beak of the Finch

• Cactus Wren Population Decline

• Coqui Frog in Hawaii

• Decline in Coral in Kāneʻohe Bay

• Disappearing Forest

• Earthquakes - Hawaiian Islands

• Earthquakes - Northeastern United States

• Earthquakes - Santa Barbara

• Earthquake - Magna in Utah

• Geologic History of Pearl Harbor

• Growth of Riparian Zone

• Lake Minewaska Fish Population

• Red-Cockaded Woodpecker Decline

• Red Hill Water Contamination

• White Deer Dataset

• A Brand New Lake (Grade 2)

• Brown Tree Snake in Guam (Grade 3)

• Disappearing Forest (Grade 5)

• Geologic History of Pearl Harbor (Grade 4)

• Ice Melt Teacher Data Set

• Kauai Extinct and Endangered Birds (Grade 3)

• Killdeer Behavior (Grade 1)

• Montana Wolf Pack Size

• Salmon Tree Rings (Grade 5)

• San Bernard River Mouth (Grade 4)

• Sunflowers Following the Sun (Grade 4)

• Termite Mounds (KG)

The following data sets were used with students and/or teachers doing scientific inquiry. The first page is shared first as the phenomenon. This is usually followed with individual and then group questioning and modeling. The data on the other pages are used to test explanations and usually culminates with group arguments using the Claim-Evidence-Reasoning framework.