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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