What is the impact of fish harvesting on the pink salmon population? In this learning module, recommended for Grades 9-12, students will learn about how to use data science techniques to explore the impact of fishing on pink salmon populations. It’s recommended that this notebook is used in conjunction with the notebook, “Discover Fish Traps […]
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The Coast Salish are Indigenous peoples based in the Pacific Northwest Coast of Canada (British Columbia) and the United States (Oregon and Washington). Salmon fishing is part of their history and culture. What types of fish traps did they use? How can you use data analysis to figure out how effective the traps were? These
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If you teach Grades 5-12 students in Canada, Callysto wants to help fund your classroom activities related to computational thinking, data science, and coding. Callysto is a free, online program that helps Grades 5-12 students and teachers in Canada learn and apply in-demand data science skills including data analysis, visualization, coding, and computational thinking. This
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How popular are LED holiday lights in Canada? In addition to holiday music (which we talked about in last week’s visualization) the holidays are often marked by people decorating their homes with lights. We wondered how popular light emitting diode (LED) lights were in Canada, for holiday decor. Fun fact: LEDs are often known for
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This blog post was written by Callysto team member Dr. Verena Roberts. Dr. Roberts is a teacher with Rocky View Schools (Alberta) and a Callysto Education Specialist. The week I joined Callysto, the team was running an online data science hackathon, “Colonizing Mars” (which ran June 3-5, 2020), for Grades 9-12 students across Canada. Participants
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Can you use data science to create basket weaving patterns? Yes! In this learning module recommended for Grades 9-12) students will learn about the basket weaving practices of the Tla’amin Indigenous peoples (who are based in British Columbia) and create their own digital basket weaving creation. View Callysto Learning Module
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Can you use data science to create a 3D basket? Yes! In this learning module (recommended for Grades 9-12) students will learn how to use data science skills to weave their own digital basket. They’ll also learn more about the history of the Tla’amin Indigenous peoples, who inspired the lessons in this module. View Callysto
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Are there other holiday songs that are as popular as, ‘All I want for Christmas is you’ ? You’ve likely heard this holiday tune before. If you haven’t, play the YouTube video above. This single is by American singer-song writer Mariah Carey. According to Wikipedia, this song is, “the bestselling Christmas single by a
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Have you ever wondered what meme data looks like? We answered that question by looking at a dataset based on data from the “WeRateDogs” Twitter account. The dataset was created by Greg Baker, a Computing Science instructor at Simon Fraser University in British Columbia (BC). Greg’s inspiration for the dataset came from an article written
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Have you ever wondered how you can use data to learn about the growth of COVID-19 cases? We answered that question by looking at how long it takes for reported COVID-19 cases to double in Canada. We did this by plotting them using a logarithmic or “log” scale on a line graph. We created two
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