Tag: Kids Dataviz

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Gulrez Khan

Data Doesn’t Have to Start with Spreadsheets. It Can Start with a Sneeze.

I was invited to an elementary school in the Bay Area to introduce kids to the wonderful world of data. A decade ago, I wouldn’t..
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Gulrez Khan

From Moonsighting to Ramadan Data Journaling

As I was heading out to the mosque for the evening prayer, I heard a soft voice from the kitchen—”Abbu, wait! I’ll join you.”It was..
A combination of a line graph comparing Pariza's and Zoeya's running totals in a Scrabble game and an illustration of a woman in a hijab sitting at a Scrabble board, looking pensive. Pariza's line is pink, and Zoeya's is black, with their names handwritten on the graph near their respective lines.C
Gulrez Khan

Cultivating Data Literacy with Board Games

बस हवा से भरे गुब्बारे हैं ये सुई चुभा दो तो फट जायेंगे।लोग गुस्से में Bomb नहीं बना करते !~Gulzar Rough translation of the above lines..
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Nightingale Editors

Meet Daphne, the Dragon on the Back of Nightingale Issue 5

Once upon a time—or perhaps just last month—Issue 5 of Nightingale landed in the hands of readers around the world. On its back cover, a..
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Meredith Kiljan

Review: Daphne Draws Data

Daphne Draws Data by Cole Nussbaumer Knaflic introduces young readers to the world of data visualization, math, and creativity through a fun, visual approach. The..
Book cover of Drawing Data With Kids, showing a father doing art with a young girl in a green headscarfR
Joseph Mackereth

Review: Drawing Data with Kids

The book "Drawing Data with Kids" makes data visualization accessible, low-tech, and something the whole family can do—no screens required.
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Agnes Vilia, Aquila Adimurti, Regina Nurashari & Arran Ridley

Teaching Data Visualisation to Middle Schoolers in Jakarta

The class allowed students to see data as not just a result of gathering facts from the world, but as a tool to make meaning of reality.
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Nightingale Editors

Magic Creature Rescue Mission

Hone your data visualization skills in this collaborative board game. Can you rescue the magical creatures before their powers are lost forever?
Cover of the Book "Friends Beyond Measure" featuring an illustration of two children sitting on a stack of multi-colored bars. One of the children is drawing dots on the wall behind them.L
Ana Paula Lamberti Bertol

Lalena Fisher: Telling A Children’s Story With Infographics

An interview with children's author Lalena Fisher, whose latest book introduces kids to charts and diagrams that tell a story of friendship.
Illustration of a young girl with a big smile, wide eyes, and brown headscarf standing in front of several piles of chocolate barsF
Gulrez Khan

From Chocolates to Bar Graphs

“Abbu, I’ll make a graph of all the chocolates you eat while I’m asleep and will send it to your team,” my daughter Pariza complained,..
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Laura Ellis

The Ellis Puppy Olympics: A Kids’ Data Visualization Challenge

Recently, it has been HOT in Austin, Texas, with highs getting close to 110 degrees Fahrenheit. As a family, we are always looking ways to..
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Jonathan Schwabish & Claire McKay Bowen

Data4Kids: A Collaborative Project to Teach Kids about Data

When the COVID-19 pandemic first shut down in-person learning, we knew education wouldn’t be the same. How could kids—especially younger kids in elementary and middle..
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Gulrez Khan

Drawing Data with Kids

For many of us, the pandemic has merged the two worlds of “home” and “office.” On the rare occasions that I used to work from..
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Nancy Organ

THE KIDS’ TABLE: Draw Along Dataviz

Welcome to Draw Along Dataviz!This article is part of The Kids’ Table section on kids dataviz. This section of Nightingale is filled with mini-lessons and..
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Julia Krolik

Data Visualization for Kids

It all started when my nine-year-old son brought home his grade four math homework. (We live in Canada and he attends a French immersion program..
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Alli Torban

How to Create Wonder with Data and a Physical Object

“And the T-Rex was SO big!” squealed my best friend Emily, who was sitting next to me on the bus ride to Kindergarten. It was..