Tag Archives: data collection

Baby laughter…what do they laugh at?

By Peggy Ashbrook | Published: December 3, 2012

While you’re looking forward to winter break, here’s a way you can have fun and do a little bit of science data collecting to contribute to a citizen science project. The Baby Laughter project would like to know what kinds of things babies find funny. Who are the funniest people? What are the funniest songs, [...]

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Invertebrate diversity tally

By Peggy Ashbrook | Published: October 16, 2012

Students at Bailey’s Elementary School for the Arts and Sciences are finding out how many different kinds of invertebrates live in their schoolyard. Using a poster showing the invertebrates that are common in a Northern Virginia pollinator garden to familiarize themselves with these small animals, second-graders went out into the garden to see what they [...]

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1st and 2nd grade students collecting and analyzing data, 7th graders too!

By Peggy Ashbrook | Published: June 10, 2011

Collecting and analyzing data follows observational steps in science inquiry. To get inspired about expanding your students’ science experiences, read about the data collection by first and second grader teams who are National Elementary School Winners for Grades K-2 of the 2010-2011 Siemens We Can Change the World Challenge!

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Sharing research results of play dough comparison

By Peggy Ashbrook | Published: April 10, 2011

Children in my preschool love to cook, and in some ways cooking is much like science learning. We feel the ingredients, measure them, follow a procedure to (hopefully) replicate the results of others, and make observations as we mix and apply heat. We get to eat our work, something we do not do in science [...]

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Graphing in early childhood classrooms

By Peggy Ashbrook | Published: March 14, 2011

The two comments on an earlier post on Collecting Data were about graphing in early childhood classrooms. My curiosity got the better of me so I investigated what some of the standards have to say about when it is appropriate to teach the concept of graphing. I chose to list Virginia’s standards because that’s where I live, and [...]

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Barometric brainstorming

By Martin Horejsi | Published: January 30, 2011

There is an old physics joke about a professor who gave a test that included a question that required to the student to explain how to measure the height of a tall building using a barometer. In essence, the punch line is found in a humorous exchange where a divergent thinking student butts heads with [...]

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Data collection and representation

By Mary Bigelow | Published: January 29, 2011

This is an exceptional collection of resources illustrating the parts of the inquiry process related to collecting, organizing, and displaying data. What’s even more remarkable is that all of the activities here were used with some of our youngest students! I must admit I was intrigued by the title of No Duck Left Behind. Students [...]

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Data collection in early childhood

By Peggy Ashbrook | Published: January 12, 2011

The January 2011 issue of Science and Children focuses on collecting data. In the Early Years column I wrote that “Young children collect data every day. They note who has pink sparkly shoes and find out who will share the ball on the playground. Children will be interested in collecting data if the topic is important [...]

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