Data can come from either collecting original data through surveys, interviews, sensors, or finding existing data from databases, websites, or published sources. Examples of data collection tasks include surveying classmates about personal attributes to analyze trends, collecting quotes on a topic, taking plant measurements over time, researching presidential election outcomes, and photographing plants with location details. More specific tasks involve analyzing poetic structures, tracking physical metrics during exercise, and documenting verb conjugations.

1. DATA COLLECTION TASKS
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2. WHERE DOES THE INFO COME FROM?
• Data usually comes from two sources:
o Collecting your own original data
• Surveys, questionnaires, interviews, cell phone polls, etc
• Sensor-based data: heart-rate monitors, motion detectors,
temperature sensors.
o Finding existing data
• Existing databases online
• Searching websites for information and compile it
• Existing books, poems, histories, newspapers, articles, etc
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3. TYPES OF DATA COLLECTION TASKS?
• Surveying each other about our heights, weights, and
gender, looking for trends (math/statistics)
• Collecting quotes about a subject (language arts)
• Taking measurements of three different plants over
the course of a month (science)
• Looking up the parties of presidential election winners
and recording them for each election year (social
studies)
• Taking photographs of different plants and their
leaves; recording their locations (Science)
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4. MORE SPECIFIC EXAMPLES…
• Examples of data collection tasks:
o Comparing multiple poems, and recording their
meter/structure (English)
• Looking for repeated rhythmic patterns
o Data collection during physical exertion
(Health/Physical Education)
• Heart rate monitors or pedometers
o Recording various regular verbs and their gerund
form (Foreign language)
• Looking for patterns in the form change
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