📝 Student Worksheet — Session 8: Your Data Project

Data Science for Young Minds · Grade 3 · Ages 8–9 · CAPSTONE
✍️ Phase 1 — Plan Your Project
1 My Data Question

Write a question that is fair, specific, and answerable with data.

My answer choices (3–5 options):

Who I will ask (my sample):

How many people I will ask:

Collection method:

☐ Survey   ☐ Observation   ☐ Measurement
✅ Question check: Is it fair (not leading)? ☐ Yes   Is it data-answerable? ☐ Yes   Is it specific? ☐ Yes
📋 Phase 2 — Collect Your Data
2 My Tally Recording Sheet

Ask your question exactly as written. Make a tally mark for each answer right away.

Answer Choice (Category)Tally MarksTotal
TOTAL
✅ Survey checklist: Asked exactly as written ☐   Recorded immediately ☐   Each person once only ☐
🗂️ Phase 3A — Organize: Frequency Table
3A My Frequency Table

Transfer your tally marks into this clean frequency table.

CategoryTally MarksFrequency
TOTAL
Most popular answer:  
Least popular answer:  

✅ Does your Total match how many people you asked? ☐ Yes   ☐ No — find the mistake!

📊 Phase 3B — Visualize: My Chart
3B Draw Your Chart

Chart type:   ☐ Bar chart   ☐ Pictograph

Why I chose this type:

My scale (bar chart) OR key (pictograph):

Draw your chart here — include title, axis labels, scale or key, and colored bars or symbols

✅ Chart checklist — check off each part:

  • ☐ Title at the top
  • ☐ All category labels included
  • ☐ Scale starts at 0 (bar chart) OR key explains symbols (pictograph)
  • ☐ Each bar/symbol count matches my frequency table
  • ☐ I used color
🎤 Phase 4 — Present: What Does My Data Say?
4 My Data Story
👁️ Observation — something I can see directly in my chart

Starter: "The data shows that…" or "_____ received the most/fewest votes…"

🧠 Inference — what I think the data might mean

Starter: "This might mean that…" or "Based on the data, I think…"

🏁 Conclusion — the answer to my original question

Starter: "Overall, the data suggests that…"

🔄 If I could do this again, I would…
✍️ Course Reflection

The most important thing I learned about data in this course is:

The hardest part of the data cycle for me was:

A question I would investigate next time:

Something I would teach a younger student about data:

🏆 Data Scientist Certificate
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Certificate of Achievement

This certifies that

has successfully completed

Data Science for Young Minds · Grade 3

and has demonstrated mastery of the full data cycle:

Observation · Questioning · Collection · Organization · Visualization · Interpretation · Critical Thinking
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Data Science for Young Minds · Grade 3 · Session 8 Project Planner · sdabagh.github.io/learn/data-science