Exploring Our Schools

Introduce your child to data collection and how it connects to their schools and education in the children’s book Exploring Our Schools.

How do we pay for public schools, and where does the money come from? Learn about how data helps the education system.

Storybook Features:

• This children’s book features different graphs and charts, post-reading questions, and an extension activity.
• 48 pages with vivid photographs
• Lexile 920L

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With the idea the "Data can help us understand the world, our country, and our local communities" in mind, these books explain how data may be organized into graphs, charts, and maps, and then used for analysis. Examples, such as a bar graph of U.S. race/ethnicity, are shown; then captions explain how to interpret the data. The usefulness of maps that reflect the connection between geography and data is also pointed out. Intentional misuse of data and how it can be misunderstood due to misreading or unclear labels is discussed, as well as how data can be used to predict future trends. Name changes for race and ethnicity over time are also mentioned. Each book begins with "Before" and "During" reading suggestions, and back matter features reflection questions and a suggested extension activity. VERDICT A helpful purchase for classes working on data interpretation. -School Library Journal

Over 50 million students attend public schools in the US! What do you know about who they are and how we pay for these schools? We can use data to answer these questions and more.