Building Insights Through Observation: Researching Arts-based Methods for Teaching and Learning with Data

Building Insights Through Observation is a project designed to advance our understanding of how science teachers can learn to incorporate arts-based teaching methods and visualizations of authentic science data into their pedagogical practices in order to improve students’ data literacy and critical thinking skills. This project uses geospatial visualizations along with arts-based pedagogies for observing visual features of data visualizations to develop critical thinking skills and practices required to effectively make meaning from scientific data.