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The Civic Data Project explores the potential for engaging students in investigations of civic data while learning social studies content and deepening inquiry practices. In the context of this project, civic data is defined as local, regional, or world data gathered by society/community serving organizations to monitor, examine, or address social issues. Using a collaborative co-design process, the project develops resources and activities for the social studies classroom that:
- empower students to use data to explore their own questions,
- engage students with meaningful multivariate data that are relevant to real world issues they care about, and
- build data literacy and foster critical thinking.
Our research explores synergies between data science and social studies education that have potential to deepen how students engage with both disciplines.
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