Title
Publishing geographic and statistical online learning activities for middle school children
Abstract
The MapStats for Kids project, supported by FedStats, is focused on developing a range of dynamic geographic and statistical online learning activities for middle school children (see URL above). FedStats is a cross-agency Internet portal designed to help all Americans find statistical summaries to support personal or business decisions, enable research on a myriad of topics, and participate in public policy debates (see http://www.fedstats.gov). One objective of MapStats for Kids (a subproject within the Quality Graphics for Federal Statistical Summaries Project) is to explore how online learning activities can facilitate the use of MapStats products by middle school children (MacEachren, et al. 2002a). Our demonstration will include four of these online learning activities, each focusing on national education standards and cognitive and knowledge abilities of middle school children. It will also introduce the MapStats for Kids portal which provides access to these applications as well as to supplemental materials that will help educators make use of the applications within standards-based learning activities.
Year
Venue
Keywords
2004
DG.O
kids project,kids portal,middle school child,federal statistical summaries project,standards-based learning activity,online learning activity,mapstats product,statistical summary,cross-agency internet portal,statistical online
Field
DocType
Citations 
Online learning,Graphics,World Wide Web,Sociology,Public policy,Publishing,Cognition,The Internet
Conference
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
1
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Sven Fuhrmann119222.38
Stephen Crawford241.36
Alan M. MacEachren31207104.22
Tanuka Bhowmick400.34