Technology Applications.2.6

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The student is expected to use a digital tool to individually or collaboratively create and communicate data visualizations such as pictographs and bar graphs.

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Knowledge and Skills Statement

Data literacy, management, and representation--communicate and publish results. The student communicates data through the use of digital tool. 

The further explanation is designed to be a resource for educators that helps them better understand the topic their students are learning. Further explanations may be written at a more complex level than would be expected for students at the grade level.

Data literacy is the ability to interpret, understand, analyze, and communicate with data. Beyond numbers, statistics, and charts, data literacy includes evaluating and drawing meaningful insights from data. Data literacy allows individuals to make informed decisions, solve complex problems, and communicate their findings effectively.
 

Conduct a classroom poll to collect data. Ask students to create a pictograph and bar graph to represent the data using the appropriate application(s) and present their data visualizations to the teacher.

Poll examples:

  • Favorite fruit
  • Favorite school subject
  • Favorite vegetable
  • Favorite animal

Note:

  • To limit the number of poll responses, options may be provided. (e.g., Favorite animal: cat, dog, hamster, or horse.)
Glossary terms and definitions are consistent across kindergarten through high school in the TEKS Guide. The definitions are intended to give educators a common understanding of the terms regardless of what grade level they teach. Glossary definitions are not intended for use with students.

a graphic means of quantitative comparison by rectangles with lengths proportional to the measure of the data or things being compared
 

the practice of translating information into a visual context, such as a map or graph, to make data easier for the human brain to understand and pull insights from
 

a diagram representing statistical data by pictorial forms