Websites for Collecting Raw Data, Maps, and Charts 

1. U.S. Census Bureau

2. Central Intelligence Agency

3. 1998 World Fact Book

4. Center for Disease Control and Prevention - National Center for Health Statistics
               FASTSTATS is a great place to start here!

5. Regional Climate Centers

6. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

7. National Climatic Data Center

8. National Oceanographic Data Center

9. FedStats

10. State of the Land, from the USDA’s Natural Resources Conservation Service

11. U.S. Arms Control & World Military Expenditures

12. Federal Reserves

13. NSF Geosciences Integrated Earth Information Server (IEIS)

14. MIT Center for Space Research

15. The TOPEX/POSEIDON Informational CD-ROM: Perspectives on an Ocean Planet

16. StatLib - Datasets Archive

  From the Carnegie Mellon University Statistics Department. Datasets from articles and books, and other sets submitted by readers.


17. United States Geological Survey (USGS), U.S. Department of the Interior

  Locators & Catalogs, Collections, and Libraries include: Geodata (geographical information), Geologic Data, Geospatial Data, Water Data, and Water Use, etc.


18. World-Wide TRACK & FIELD STATISTICS On-Line

19. The Data Zoo for The Journal of Statistics Education

20. WIST : the Web Image Spreadsheet Tool
 

The Web Image Spreadsheet Tool (WIST) is an exciting new way to look at scientific datasets using the Web. There are many Web interfaces to scientific datasets that allow one to look at browse images of the data. WIST allows the user to look at an array of browse images, and allows the user to manipulate the parameters controlling each axis of the array with a spreadsheet-like interface. This allows the user to control the particular dataset on display in each column and row of the image spreadsheet.  

1. Tidal Passages - An Online Student Exploration of the Sailing of the Alvei
 
Student centered activities with teacher resources and tons of oceanographic data!


2. Chance and Data in the News
 

Gives articles dealing with data and provides discussion questions for each.


3. WhaleNet
 

Focus is on whales and marine research


4. Project SkyMath
 

This Web Page is designed for middle school mathematics teachers. It contains all of the information needed for teachers to use the 16 classroom activities of SkyMath, including the module itself.


5. Exploring Oceans of Data
 

This site contains data and projects for K-4, 5-8, and 9-12


6. New Jersey Networking Infrastructure in Education

  The NJNIE team sponsors and designs projects that teachers throughout the world can use to enhance their curriculum through compelling use of the Internet, including projects that utilize realtime data available from the Internet.


7. The Chance Database
 

This data base contains materials designed help teach a Chance course or a more standard introductory probability or statistics course.


8. The Data and Story Library
 

DASL is an online library of datafiles and stories that illustrate the use of basic statistics methods.  
9. The Data Library
  The Data Library contains lists of ongoing data-sharing projects as well as downloadable Clarisworks spreadsheets and other sources of data on the web.


10. ENC FOCUS: Real Data Resources for Teachers
 

K-12 students can now analyze actual science and math data collected by themselves and others. This site provides links to resources teachers can use to implement this recommendation, such as GeoWorld and Kids Network.


11. Exploring Data - Education Queensland

  A website with activities, worksheets, overhead transparency masters, datasets, and assessment to support data exploration. It also contains an extensive collection of articles designed to enhance the statistics knowledge of the teacher. A resources page gives a select list of resources to support introductory statistics, including texts, websites, datasets, java applets, and mailing lists.


12. Key Curriculum Press --List of Data sets
 

Lists of links for data sets to download. Data links include Kentucky derby results, water levels of the Great lakes, weather sites, etc...  Also be sure to check out the new Fathom! software while you are there!


13. Dinosaur Data Files

Data from the Natural History Museum in London.  Includes a spreadsheet with all data and suggested activities for exploring the data with students.
 
If you know of any great resources for collecting and analyzing data, please let me know and I will add it to my page!