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The Promise and Practice of Teaching Data Literacy in Social Studies: A Companion Site Main Menu A Taxonomy of Data Visualizations Information can be visualized in multiple ways, from bar graphs to scatterplots, choropleth maps to distribution maps, timelines to time series. Designers can choose from an array of graphical elements such as points, lines, or icons used to represent data, and multiple aesthetic attributes such as color, shape, and size. Furthermore, designers can apply multiple combinations of titles, legends, and explanatory text to provide context for a data visualization. Given the almost dizzying array of data visualizations students may encounter in social studies, it is helpful to place them in categories related to the types of questions they will help us answer. Data Visualizations as Primary Sources Humans have been creating different types of data visualizations for centuries. Explore this collection of timelines, maps, graphs and charts to see what they reveal about the historical time and place in which they were produced. How do students learn with data visualizations? Reading data visualizations in print and online social studies texts can improve students' overall comprehension and quality of reasoning. And there is evidence to suggest that reading data visualizations helps students better understand historical and geographic context, multiple causation, and change over time — all important concepts for students to grasp in social studies subject areas. However, students may face significant challenges in trying to make sense of different kinds of data visualizations. This section provides insight into both benefits and challenges of reading timelines, maps, and graphs and charts. How should students analyze data visualizations in social studies? The challenges that data visualizations present, coupled with their prevalence in social studies texts, standardized assessments, in online social studies resources, and as sources of information in society, suggest that teaching with and about data visualizations in social studies is essential. This module provides guidance for how teachers can support students' data literacy for social studies. How do I help students create and integrate data visualizations for social studies? This page highlights several tools that are useful for data-based projects in social studies. And accompanying each tool is a "minimal manual" that provides guidance for using the tool in social studies inquiry- and project-based learning. Project-Based Learning Activities for Data Literacy in Social Studies Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, nec constituto comprehensam te. Sea no affert nemore comprehensam, eum te purto soleat accusata. Ea est magna malis. No atqui iudico est. In vel propriae suavitate. Est homero timeam cu, novum persecuti mea an. Index of Lesson Plans This page contains a list of the minimal manuals and lessons found on this website. Minimal manuals are designed to be adapted to different grade levels and do not have a grade designation associated with them. Lesson plans are organized according to the school level for which they are designed. However, many of these lessons can be adapted for different grade levels.

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All maps show location, but not all maps are the same. Here are different kinds of maps that students might encounter to help them locate people, places, and events in space. The visualization near the bottom of the page connects you to examples of primary source data visualizations that fall within this category.

Bubble Map
Bubble maps use circles to represent data over a geographical region. The area of the circle is proportional to its value in the dataset.
Choropleth Map

Connection Map

Dot Map

Flow Map

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Spatial Data Visualizations Tamara Shreiner Everything that has happened in history has happened somewhere. Spatial data visualizations allow us to orient ourselves in space, and to situate places, events, and phenomena outside of our personal experience in space. The most common type of spatial data visualization is a map. Maps allow us to discover and visualize spatial relationships and to make perceptible large scale movements or patterns. Maps can also show both the world and parts of the world at the same time, and thus, make it possible for us to make comparisons or see how events in part of the world relate to the whole. Each of the sections of this page represents a function of spatial data visualizations, and shows the different kinds of maps that can fulfill that function.
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Map of Cantino (1502) This manuscript map documents the politically powerful rivalries around new geographic discoveries. The Portuguese crown had supported seafaring for decades and required sailors to keep a logbook. Maps were created on this basis and were stored for safekeeping by the Portuguese marine bureau. The Italian envoy Alberto Cantino had this map copied secretly and smuggled it to Ferrara. It reflects the state of Portuguese knowledge around 1500--including the extensively mapped Brazilian coast, but also the fact that Brazil was thought to be its own landmass at the time. The map shows the struggle between European powers around the newly discovered regions--numerous sovereign flags along the coasts or on islands show the trading posts or regions laid claim to by different nations.
D-day Normandy : the invasion and the first 48 days of action with the 743rd tank battalion in France (1945)
Map Showing the Distribution of the Slave Population of the Southern States of the United States (1861)
Halley's A New and Correct Chart (1701)

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