The DataHub gives K–12 teachers ready-to-use lessons, authentic datasets, and interactive tools that integrate data science into the subjects they already teach.
Recent Lessons
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Who Counts as an American?
National Population and IdentityStudents explore how governments and societies use data to define identity, citizenship, and belonging — examining Native perspectives on blood quantum, federal definitions of...
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Reading the Language of Law as Data
Media, Language, and PowerAcross 15 historical US laws, students analyze patterns in justification language to discover how governments frame restriction as protection, pairing a categorical language...
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The Data History of the Attention Economy
Media, Language, and PowerStudents investigate how media have competed for audience attention over time, weighing evidence from newspapers and radio against historian Tim Wu's "attention merchant" idea...
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Booms and Busts: A Century of American Population Data
National Population and IdentityStudents use census data from 1910–2020 to investigate how historical forces shape population change, interpreting trends and connecting shifts like the Great Depression and the...
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Vietnam Photojournalism as Data
War, Dissent, and Civil LibertiesStudents use six Library of Congress Vietnam War photographs as nontraditional data, applying a 5×5 grid protocol to code quantifiable variables from each image, calculating a...
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WWI Propaganda and the Data of Dissent
War, Dissent, and Civil LibertiesStudents treat wartime language as data, using historical newspapers (1917–1919) to categorize propaganda techniques, compare them to the suppression of dissent under the...