This document outlines a three-week school project where students in an 11th grade history class created infographics about environmental disasters. The project involved asking questions, forming hypotheses, designing experiments, analyzing data, drawing conclusions, and formulating final hypotheses. It discusses students presenting the infographics they created and exploring patterns and connections in the data. The goal was for the visualizations to tell stories with the information and focus on important details.

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9. 1. Ask a question.
2. Observe
3. Form a hypothesis.
4. Design & perform
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5. Analyze data.
6. Draw conclusion.
7. Formulate final
hypothesis

10. 1. Ask a question.
2. Observe
3. Form a hypothesis.
4. Design & perform
experiment.
5. Analyze data.
6. Draw conclusion.
7. Formulate final
hypothesis

11. 1. Ask a question.
2. Observe
3. Form a hypothesis.
4. Design & perform
experiment.
5. Analyze data.
6. Draw conclusion.
7. Formulate final
hypothesis

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29. Devon Thomas Students in Diana Laufenberg’s
11th grade history class discuss the infographics
they created in a three-week project on
environmental disasters.

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80. see the patterns and connections that matter and
then designing that information so it makes more
sense, or it tells a story, or allows us to focus only
on the information that’s important. Failing that,
visualized information can just look really cool.
David McCandless in the opening to his TED
talk, The Beauty of Data Visualization