Project Overview
In the Make Decisions with Data project, your child develops fundamental skills needed to use technology to support decision making, data analysis, and communication. Your child learns how to use technology tools and resources to help make more informed decisions by collecting and analyzing data. You can help your child consider different points of view with reason and fairness. Your child becomes a more effective researcher, decision maker, and presenter by learning to analyze and visualize data. 

Decision Making >
In the first module, your child learns that critical thinkers are effective decision makers because they consider different points of view with reason and fairness. You can help your child understand how surveys collect data on people and their opinions, and how survey data can inform many important decisions about complex topics. 

Data Collection >
In the second module, your child learns how to collect opinion data by administering surveys. You can help your child understand that opinions are often useful data because important decisions have significant effects on people. Your child writes survey questions and compiles a questionnaire to collect data from other students. Your child also learns how database applications store and manage data for quick and easy retrieval. 

Data Analysis >
In the third module, your child uses a database application to store and manage survey data, and a spreadsheet application to analyze and visualize data. Your child creates forms and queries to enter and retrieve survey data, and uses formulas and functions to analyze data. You can help your child understand how visual representations of data, such as charts and graphs, can help your child evaluate possibilities and make choices. 

Expository Presentation >
In the last module, your child shares successful decision making with a live audience by creating, preparing, and delivering an expository presentation. You can help your child reflect on how your child defined decisions, gathered information, developed alternatives, evaluated possibilities, and made choices. Your child uses technology tools to create and deliver presentations that are entertaining as well as interesting and informative.