Inspiration Launches New InspireData Software
Inspiration Launches New InspireData Software
InspireData is a tool for students in grades 4-12, designed to help them apply visual learning to data analysis in science, math and social studies. It will help develop content knowledge, critical thinking skills and develop data literacy.
InspireData was developed by TERC (an educational research and development lab dedicated to improving math and science teaching and learning) and originally funded by a grant from the National Science Foundation.
This software lets students collect, explore, and interact with data. They can ask questions, solve problems, and draw conclusions in science, math, and social studies. Data is displayed both in a table view and plot view (Venn, stack, pie and axis). Students can show how data changes over time with an animated time series and show what they know with the slide show tool.
InspireData comes with a “Classroom Projects” book to help teachers integrate the software into their instruction with lesson plans, projects, and experiments. It also provides 50 curriculum-based databases and plot examples.
To preview InspireData, you can download a free, 30-day trial from www.inspiration.com/freetrial. It is available on the IEC but pricing depends upon how many licenses/CDs that you order. For example, if you want 35 licenses, the cost is @ $20/license.
Judy Griffin
InspireData is a tool for students in grades 4-12, designed to help them apply visual learning to data analysis in science, math and social studies. It will help develop content knowledge, critical thinking skills and develop data literacy.
InspireData was developed by TERC (an educational research and development lab dedicated to improving math and science teaching and learning) and originally funded by a grant from the National Science Foundation.
This software lets students collect, explore, and interact with data. They can ask questions, solve problems, and draw conclusions in science, math, and social studies. Data is displayed both in a table view and plot view (Venn, stack, pie and axis). Students can show how data changes over time with an animated time series and show what they know with the slide show tool.
InspireData comes with a “Classroom Projects” book to help teachers integrate the software into their instruction with lesson plans, projects, and experiments. It also provides 50 curriculum-based databases and plot examples.
To preview InspireData, you can download a free, 30-day trial from www.inspiration.com/freetrial. It is available on the IEC but pricing depends upon how many licenses/CDs that you order. For example, if you want 35 licenses, the cost is @ $20/license.
Judy Griffin
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