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[ Guidelines
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Websites for Collecting Data, Maps, and Charts
U.S. Census
Bureau - http://www.census.gov/
Central Intelligence
Agency - http://www.odci.gov/
2001
World Fact Book - http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/factbook/index.html
Center for
Disease Control and Prevention: National Center for Health Statistics
- http://www.cdc.gov/nchswww/
Regional
Climate Centers - http://met-www.cit.cornell.edu/other_rcc.html
National Oceanic
and Atmospheric Administration - http://www.noaa.gov/
National Climatic
Data Center - http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/
National Oceanographic
Data Center - http://www.nodc.noaa.gov/
FedStats
- http://www.fedstats.gov/
Federal
Reserves - http://www.stls.frb.org/fred/
NSF Geosciences
Integrated Earth Information Server (IEIS) - http://atm.geo.nsf.gov/
MIT Center for
Space Research - http://space.mit.edu/
The
TOPEX/POSEIDON Informational CD-ROM: Perspectives on an Ocean
Planet - http://podaac.jpl.nasa.gov/tecd.html
StatLib:
Datasets Archive - http://lib.stat.cmu.edu/datasets/
From the Carnegie Mellon University Statistics Department. Datasets
from articles and books, and other sets submitted by readers.
United
States Geological Survey (USGS), U.S. Department of the Interior
- http://www.usgs.gov/pubprod/index.html
Locators & Catalogs, Collections, and Libraries include: Geodata
(geographical information), Geologic Data, Geospatial Data, Water
Data, and Water Use, etc.
TRACK
& FIELD STATISTICS On-Line - http://www.sci.fi/~mapyy/tilastot.html
Teaching Resources for Collecting and Analyzing Data
Chance
and Data in the News - http://www.themercury.com.au/nie/mathguys/mercindx.htm
Gives articles dealing with data and provides discussion questions
for each.
WhaleNet
- http://whale.wheelock.edu/
Focus is on whales and marine research
Project
SkyMath - http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/staff/blynds/Skymath.html
This Web Page is designed for middle school mathematics teachers.
It contains all of the information needed for teachers to use
the 16 classroom activities of SkyMath, including the module itself.
Exploring
Oceans of Data - http://mathforum.org/workshops/usi/dataproject/
This site contains data and projects for K-4, 5-8, and 9-12.
CIESE
Online Classroom Projects - http://njnie.dl.stevens-tech.edu/currichome.html
CIESE sponsors and designs interdisciplinary projects that teachers
throughout the world can use to enhance their curriculum through
compelling use of the Internet, including projects that utilize
realtime data available from the Internet.
The
Chance Database - http://www.dartmouth.edu/~chance/
This data base contains materials designed help teach a Chance
course or a more standard introductory probability or statistics
course.
The Data
and Story Library - http://lib.stat.cmu.edu/DASL/
DASL is an online library of datafiles and stories that illustrate
the use of basic statistics methods.
The
Data Library - http://mathforum.org/workshops/sum96/data.collections/datalibrary/
The Data Library contains lists of ongoing data-sharing projects
as well as downloadable Clarisworks spreadsheets and other sources
of data on the web.
Key
Curriculum Press: List of Data sets - http://www.keypress.com/fathom/Data_Sets.html
Lists of links for data sets to download. Data links include Kentucky
derby results, water levels of the Great lakes, weather sites,
etc. Also be sure to check out the new Fathom! software while
you are there!
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