The Discover Data Education Portal

Welcome to the Discover Data Portal! We hope you will find our series of lessons an experience of exploration and discovery. The mission of this portal is to provide a way for K-12 teachers and undergraduate professors to incorporate scientific data into their curricula. Our process is to select data from existing online freely available scientific data archives, some of which may be a challenge for students to use without assistance, and build a series of lessons around them designed to guide K-12 and undergraduate students through beginning, intermediate, and advanced scientific tools.

NEW!! The K-12 Teacher Zone!!

Submit a proposal to the Discover Data Portal's K-12 Teacher Zone to develop a standards-based lesson highlighting an online data resource, and in return we will provide you with your own web course space for you to deliver your lesson directly to your students using the Moodle Course Management System that the Discover Data Portal is built upon. You will be required to register (it's free and easy) before you may "enroll" in the Teacher Zone and submit a proposal.

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Check out the Data Zone, a collection of some of the more outstanding online data portals and archives that are free and open to the public, although some may require registration.