What is big data and what does it have to do with you?Have you watched videos online today? Did you post photographs on social media? Did you upload your English essay to Google docs?All of these questions are questions about data. Data is information. It can be stored in books, magazines, on graph paper, in computers, and with many other methods. Most of the data that exists today is stored in computers, and the amount of data humans produce is doubling every year and half. That's why it's called big data!In Big Data: Information in the Digital World with Science Activities for Kids, one of four titles in the Technology for Today set, kids ages 10 to 15 explore the definition of data and learn about the relationship between data, computers, and people. They learn about the history of data, the transition from paper to computers, and the role that search engines such as Google play in handling data. Data management, data analytics, and the history of computers are all topics covered in this book on big numbers for kids.Data is something computer scientists think about a lot. A computer's capacity to function and perform is directly related to how much data it can store. A computer that can't store much data won't be very popular. As more and more of our daily lives become connected to computers—schoolwork, watching movies on a laptop, paying for snacks with a debit card—computers are required to handle more and more data. New improvements in data storage mean that there are fewer limits on the amount of data businesses can store, but what does that mean for users? How does data management make our lives easier? Do we need all of this information or are we storing data we'll never use again simply because we can?Throughout Big Data, 25 STEAM investigations and experiments provide hands-on, problem-solving opportunities for students that incorporate various challenges and tools. Using readily available household items and recycled materials, each activity will take the reader through an inquiry-based, open-ended investigation that leaves plenty of room to explore individual creativity. With essential questions, fun facts, and links to online primary sources and videos, kids will mine the topic of big data and become better, more informed digital citizens of the world!In the Technology for Today set, readers ages 10 to 15 explore the digital and tech landscapes of today and tomorrow through hands-on STEAM activities and compelling stories of how things work, who makes them work, and why. Titles in this set include Industrial Design: Why Smartphones Aren't Round and Other Mysteries with Science Activities for Kids; Big Data: Information in the Digital World with Science Activities for Kids; Projectile Science: The Physics Behind Kicking a Field Goal and Launching a Rocket with Science Activities for Kids; and Artificial Intelligence: Thinking Machines and Smart Robots with Science Activities for Kids.Nomad Press books integrate content with participation. Common Core State Standards, the Next Generation Science Standards, and STEM Education all place project-based learning as key building blocks in education. Combining content with inquiry-based projects stimulates learning and makes it active and alive. Nomad's unique approach simultaneously grounds kids in factual knowledge while allowing them the space to be curious, creative, and critical thinkers.
What is big data and what does it have to do with you? Have you watched videos online today? Did you post photographs on social media? Did you upload your English essay to Google docs? All of these are questions about data! In Big Data: Information in the Digital World with Science Activities for Kids, kids ages 10 to 15 explore the definition of data and learn how essential it is to our everyday lives. They learn about the history of data, the transition from paper to computers, and the role that search engines such as Google play in handling data. By making connections between the relationships among data, computers, and people, middle school kids also acquire the tools they need to become better digital citizens! Throughout Big Data, STEAM investigations and experiments provide hands-on, problem-solving opportunities for students that incorporate various challenges and tools. Using readily available household items and recycled materials, each activity will take the reader through an inquiry-based, open-ended investigation that leaves plenty of room to explore individual creativity. With essential questions, fun facts, and links to online primary sources and videos, kids will mine the topic of big data and become better, more informed digital citizens of the world!
What is big data and what does it have to do with you? Have you watched videos online today? Did you post photographs on social media? Did you upload your English essay to Google docs? All of these are questions about data! In Big Data: Information in the Digital World with Science Activities for Kids, kids ages 9 to 12 explore the definition of data and learn how essential it is to our everyday lives. They learn about the history of data, the transition from paper to computers, and the role that search engines such as Google play in handling data. By making connections between the relationships among data, computers, and people, middle school kids also acquire the tools they need to become better digital citizens! Throughout Big Data, STEAM investigations and experiments provide hands-on, problem-solving opportunities for students that incorporate various challenges and tools. Using readily available household items and recycled materials, each activity will take the reader through an inquiry-based, open-ended investigation that leaves plenty of room to explore individual creativity. With essential questions, fun facts, and links to online primary sources and videos, kids will mine the topic of big data and become better, more informed digital citizens of the world!
Carla Mooney has written more than 70 books for children and young adults. She is the author of several books for Nomad Press, including Terrorism: Violence, Intimidation, and Solutions for Peace, Evolution: How Life Adapts to a Changing Environment, The Holocaust: Racism and Genocide in World War II, and Comparative Religion: Investigate the World through Religious Tradition. She lives in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
TimelineIntroduction: Big Data Predicts a Global Health CrisisChapter 1: What Is Data and Where Does It Come From?Chapter 2: The Transition from Paper to ComputersChapter 3: How Computers Store DataChapter 4: What Is Big Data?Chapter 5: Understanding Data: Data Visualization and Data AnalyticsChapter 6: The Future of Big DataGlossaryResourcesIndex
School Library Connection
Part of the Technology Today series, this title is a solid, well-written, and nicely formatted introduction to the concept of data as it exists in our world. Mooney's book is comprehensive in scope, but clear and organized in delivery, explaining the history, nature, and ever-expanding extent of data, and the purposes of data collection, recoding, and analysis. Highly Recommended
Professor Yael Grushka-Cockayne, University of Virginia Darden School of Business
"The book is great fun! It is jam-packed with fun activities that really bring the idea of data to life. It is comprehensive and offers a lot of useful examples for the use of big data."
Praise for other books in the series Innovators National Science Teachers Association Recommends
Innovators is a magnificent compilation of vignettes about creative and critical thinkers who have contributed to solving problems and improving existing products or processes. . . Innovators is a wonderful book. It is engaging, readable, and full of relevant information about important inventions and innovations and the context behind them. Readers will appreciate focus on equity of gender and race among the innovators throughout the book. This book does not contain glossy color photographs, but has cartoon style illustrations throughout. Innovators would be useful for teaching science or STEM classes, for background reading in classes, or can be read and used at home just because it is such an engaging book. As a fifth grade science teacher, I highly recommend getting a copy for any third to sixth grade classroom. Read the complete review online. Learning Magazine
"What do Google and chocolate chip cookies have in common? Both were created by innovators! Learn about the people and products that have changed the world; then get your students innovating with 25 STEAM projects." 3-D Engineering Science Books and Films
++: Highly Recommended
". . . This book is a wonderful resource for teachers and parents to use in the classroom and at home. It gets back to the basics with exciting activities that are hands-on that support the STEM program. When kids use their hands and work together to create a prototype, the outcomes are much higher when they are actively engaged in this type of learning. It gives students confidence in math while building problem-solving and critical-thinking skills. This is a book that teachers, parents, boys, and girls will enjoy as they learn about the many facets of the engineering world." School Library Connection, April 2016
"Author Vicky V. May has produced a procedural book for the 21st century. Information covers electricity, chemistry, earth science, physics, and energy. . . The text, with fast facts, sidebars, and text boxes, is kid-friendly and the topics fit the science curriculum. Its guided inquiry approach makes this a useful tool for students seeking science fair ideas, teachers selecting creative outcomes to lessons, and learners who thrive on hands-on projects. Cartoon-like illustrations supplement the "how-to" aspect of the book nicely. Glossary. Index. Recommended"
This nonfiction title for students ages 9-12 offers an introduction to big data and explores how the explosion in digital data is being used and affecting our lives, integrating history, geography, science, technology, engineering, art, and math. Readers hear news stories about big data on a daily basis. Uses an inquiry-based approach to encourage readers to reach their own conclusions and brainstorm problem-solving strategies to determine whether and how some people benefit more from big data than others. Readers recognize the devices and programs discussed in the book as tools they might use in their own homes and schools, providing a bridge to their daily experience. Free, downloadable, comprehensive classroom guides that include essential questions and Common Core connections are available for this title. Uses primary sources to engage readers in scholarly deconstruction of relevant material. This book discusses digital citizenship and the rights and responsibilities of technology users, which is a crucial part of education today. Activities encourage the development of important skills, including comparing and contrasting, looking for detailed evidence, making deductions, and applying critical analysis to a wide variety of media. Investigating how technology affects the modern world is an important step in understanding the roles individuals play in ensuring that technology benefits society instead of becoming a damaging force. Uses links to online primary sources to imbue readers with a curiosity about the topic and engage in further, independent inquiry. Focuses on student-directed, as opposed to teacher-guided, learning. This text is interdisciplinary in nature and provides links to the art, culture, economics, technology, and history connected with the time periods discussed. Offers age-appropriate, hands-on activities that bring the text to life and reinforce learning. Uses an inquiry-based approach to encourage readers to experiment with engineering designs and reach their own conclusions about what works and what doesn't. Meets the engineering design standards for NSTA's NGSS curriculum for 4th through 6th grade. Meets the individuals, groups, & institutions standards for the National Curriculum Standards for Social Studies. Meets Common Core state standards in language arts for reading informational text and literary nonfiction. Guided Reading Levels and Lexile measurements indicate grade level and text complexity.
Praise for other books in the series Innovators National Science Teachers Association Recommends Innovators is a magnificent compilation of vignettes about creative and critical thinkers who have contributed to solving problems and improving existing products or processes. . . Innovators is a wonderful book. It is engaging, readable, and full of relevant information about important inventions and innovations and the context behind them. Readers will appreciate focus on equity of gender and race among the innovators throughout the book. This book does not contain glossy color photographs, but has cartoon style illustrations throughout. Innovators would be useful for teaching science or STEM classes, for background reading in classes, or can be read and used at home just because it is such an engaging book. As a fifth grade science teacher, I highly recommend getting a copy for any third to sixth grade classroom. Read the complete review online. Learning Magazine "What do Google and chocolate chip cookies have in common? Both were created by innovators! Learn about the people and products that have changed the world; then get your students innovating with 25 STEAM projects." 3-D Engineering Science Books and Films ++: Highly Recommended ". . . This book is a wonderful resource for teachers and parents to use in the classroom and at home. It gets back to the basics with exciting activities that are hands-on that support the STEM program. When kids use their hands and work together to create a prototype, the outcomes are much higher when they are actively engaged in this type of learning. It gives students confidence in math while building problem-solving and critical-thinking skills. This is a book that teachers, parents, boys, and girls will enjoy as they learn about the many facets of the engineering world." School Library Connection, April 2016 "Author Vicky V. May has produced a procedural book for the 21st century. Information covers electricity, chemistry, earth science, physics, and energy. . . The text, with fast facts, sidebars, and text boxes, is kid-friendly and the topics fit the science curriculum. Its guided inquiry approach makes this a useful tool for students seeking science fair ideas, teachers selecting creative outcomes to lessons, and learners who thrive on hands-on projects. Cartoon-like illustrations supplement the "how-to" aspect of the book nicely. Glossary. Index. Recommended"
School Library Connection Part of the Technology Today series, this title is a solid, well-written, and nicely formatted introduction to the concept of data as it exists in our world. Mooney's book is comprehensive in scope, but clear and organized in delivery, explaining the history, nature, and ever-expanding extent of data, and the purposes of data collection, recoding, and analysis. Highly Recommended
$40,000 marketing and publicity budget (for series) Exhibiting at national and regional conferences including: American Library Association (ALA: 60,000 members) National Science Teacher Association/STEM (NSTA: 60,000 members) American Association of School Librarians (AASL: 10,000 members) Public Library Association (PLA: 11,000 members) Texas Library Association (TLA: 7,000 members) National Council for the Social Studies (NCSS: 25,000 members) International Literacy Association (ILA: 60,000 members) Association for Middle Level Education (AMLE: 40,000 members) Advertising in the following publications: SLJ display ads (3-4 times for series) Booklist/Booklinks display ads (3-4 times) Booklist/Booklinks online ads Follett Library Ingram (Children's Advance 2 times) Baker & Taylor (Growing Minds) Publicity and promotion in conjunction with the author's speaking engagements at bookstores, libraries, schools, museums, events, and conferences Extensive social media outreach via Facebook mooney), Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram, Goodreads, LinkedIn, YouTube, and the author's blog
This nonfiction title for students ages 10-15 offers an introduction to big data and explores how the explosion in digital data is being used and affecting our lives, integrating history, geography, science, technology, engineering, art, and math. Readers hear news stories about big data on a daily basis. Uses an inquiry-based approach to encourage readers to reach their own conclusions and brainstorm problem-solving strategies to determine whether and how some people benefit more from big data than others. Readers recognize the devices and programs discussed in the book as tools they might use in their own homes and schools, providing a bridge to their daily experience. Free, downloadable, comprehensive classroom guides that include essential questions and Common Core connections are available for this title. Uses primary sources to engage readers in scholarly deconstruction of relevant material. This book discusses digital citizenship and the rights and responsibilities of technology users, which is a crucial part of education today. Activities encourage the development of important skills, including comparing and contrasting, looking for detailed evidence, making deductions, and applying critical analysis to a wide variety of media. Investigating how technology affects the modern world is an important step in understanding the roles individuals play in ensuring that technology benefits society instead of becoming a damaging force. Uses links to online primary sources to imbue readers with a curiosity about the topic and engage in further, independent inquiry. Focuses on student-directed, as opposed to teacher-guided, learning. This text is interdisciplinary in nature and provides links to the art, culture, economics, technology, and history connected with the time periods discussed. Offers age-appropriate, hands-on activities that bring the text to life and reinforce learning. Uses an inquiry-based approach to encourage readers to experiment with engineering designs and reach their own conclusions about what works and what doesn't. Meets the engineering design standards for NSTA's NGSS curriculum for 5ththrough 9th grade. Meets the individuals, groups, & institutions standards for the National Curriculum Standards for Social Studies. Meets Common Core state standards in language arts for reading informational text and literary nonfiction. Guided Reading Levels and Lexile measurements indicate grade level and text complexity.