Educators
Interdisciplinary
Research-based
Integration-friendly
The importance of data fluency
The data revolution has arrived! Every student needs to emerge from their K–12 education having the knowledge, skills, and abilities to work with and learn from data. With CODAP, students can explore and visualize data, find patterns, identify problems, investigate sources, and more—in every subject from grades 5 to 14.
Grade Levels
- Upper Elementary
- Middle School
- High School
- Undergraduate
Subject Areas
- Science
- Math
- Social Studies
- Computer Science
- More!
Settings
- Schools
- After School Programs
- Museums
- Community Science Projects
- Pre/In-service Teacher Education
- Published Curriculum
CODAP is research-based and designed for education
Designed with learning in mind, CODAP builds on decades of research into interactive environments that encourage play and wonder. CODAP supports inquiry, exploration, and learning from data in any content area—from math and science to social studies or physical education!
See what can be done with CODAP
Test drive CODAP documents preloaded with sample data.
Mammals
Learn about 27 different mammal species
Roller Coasters
Analyze data on 157 U.S. roller coasters
U.S. Population Map
Visualize population data with maps and graphs
Earthquakes
Investigate data on 4,130 earthquakes from 2016-2017
Periodic Table
Dive into information on the elements of the periodic table
Four Seals
Explore tracking data from four elephant seals in the Pacific Ocean
Plugins extend CODAP's functionality
The following plugins help your students do more with data.
Microdata Portal
Retrieve a random sample of people from the U.S. Census
NOAA Weather
Gather historical weather data from weather stations around the U.S.
Sonify
Experience time-series data as sound
Story Builder
Create a presentation of various data representations to tell a story
Sampler
Customize a simulation for selecting random samples
Develop data science curriculum
Engage your students with data science. “Data interactives”—including games, simulations, database frontends, probe interfaces, and data entry forms—can be embedded in CODAP to serve as a source of data. Or you can import data by simply dragging and dropping CSV or tab-delimited text files. You can use CODAP as a standalone environment or include links to CODAP documents within online curriculum materials.
”Kids pose their own notice & wonder questions during exploratory data analysis.”
— Teacher
Data science curriculum
Explore a variety of free CODAP curricula from the Concord Consortium and our partners.
Boosting Data Fluency
Project providing curated datasets (“Data Biographies”) for math and science learning in grades 6–9.
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InquirySpace
High school biology, chemistry, and physics curricula with embedded CODAP activities.
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Gulf of Maine Research Institute Learning Resource Hub
A variety of curricular resources on ecology topics for middle school students. Find CODAP related materials by clicking “Data” under “Topic” or “Dataset” under “Type of Asset.”
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Investigating U.S. Society with Data (USS-DATA)
High school math and social studies curriculum using CODAP to analyze US immigration and income inequality data.
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Data Science for Social Justice
Undergraduate curriculum
using CODAP (and/or R) to explore datasets on social justice topics from fatal police violence to environmental justice).
Join the CODAP Community
Get involved in the CODAP community! Attend our meetups and webinars, engage in discussion on the forum, and help build the CODAP community through sharing datasets and lessons, translating, extending CODAP’s functionality, and fixing bugs.
