New Features

Introducing the Archives Section in the Tuva Datasets Library

The Tuva Datasets Library continues to grow, with new datasets, activities, and lessons added on a regular basis.

Thousands of educators around the world use the Tuva Datasets, the interactive graphing and data tools, and inquiry-based activities to effectively address math and science standards, concepts, and practices in their classrooms.

As we curate and add new datasets and activities to the Tuva Datasets Library, it it becoming essential that the library is kept fresh.

What can we do to preserve many of the older datasets that are no longer be relevant? Today, we are introducing the Archives section within the Tuva Datasets Library.

Archives Section on the Tuva Datasets page

Once a free or a Tuva Premium dataset is archived, it will be placed in the Archives section of the library.

Once the dataset is archived, all the activities and lessons related to that dataset are archived as well.

The archived datasets and activities will appear in the Search results, but they will be clearly marked as ARCHIVED.

The Archives section will ensure that the Tuva Datasets Library remains fresh, and that you are able to find the datasets, activities, and lessons that meet your needs.

Google Classroom & Tuva

Do you use Google Classroom to manage your classes, distribute assignments, and communicate with your students?

With just a few clicks, you can now integrate all your Google Classroom classes and students into Tuva! Here is how to use this feature:

From your teacher dashboard, click on the Google Classroom button.
Google will ask you to give Tuva the permission to connect to your Google Classroom account. Click on Allow.
Tuva will fetch all your existing classes and students from Google Classroom. Choose the class and students you want to import into Tuva.
Choose a Grade and provide a Section name for this class. Click Add.
That’s it! You have just synced one of your Google Classroom classes on Tuva!

Receive Just the Right Tuva Email in your Inbox

At Tuva, we respect your email inbox. We routinely send newsletters regarding the latest datasets and activities, data literacy modules and lessons, and the newest features and enhancements to the graphing and statistical tools on Tuva.

We have introduced Email Settings in order to ensure that you receive news that are of interest and relevance to you.

Update email settings from your profile

Just go to the Email Settings tab in your Tuva Profile, select and save your preferences.

Introducing the first Tuva Science Collection — Earth in Space

earth-rising

Here a star, and there a star,

Some lose their way.

Here a mist, and there a mist,

Afterwards — day!

Few have conveyed the beauty of dawn with more inspiration than Emily Dickinson. As teachers of Earth science, we aspire to convey to students appreciation and understanding of what it means to be a planet moving through space and how our position and movement in space predictably affects our everyday experience of, well — day!

The magnitude of spatial and temporal scale differences covered by the topic of “Earth in Space” makes it challenging to find datasets about stars, planets, Sun and Moon, orbits, seasons, tides, and day-lengths that are of a scope that students can explore to find meaning and discover patterns and relationships.

At Tuva, we are gathering datasets into collections by topic to help you quickly find data and activities that support a unit you are teaching. Our first Tuva Science Collection is Earth in Space.

Tuva’s Earth in Space collection provides opportunities for students to analyze and interpret data and model systems (see NGSS ESS1.A and ESS1.B) to support understanding of key ideas such as:

Stars range in size, type, and distance from our Solar System.
Planets have different properties (density, gravitational pull, orbital period, temperature…)
Seasons occur at opposite times of year in northern and southern hemispheres.
The timing of tide cycles can be explained (and predicted) by the phase (and position) of the Moon.
How much day length changes through the year depends on latitude.

Each dataset has at least one activity, and you can add or adapt activities to fit your teaching goals.

Help your students discover and appreciate the music of the spheres — through data!

We will be adding many other science collections in coming weeks and months. If there is a collection you are especially interested in, please let us know via Tuva Support or share with the community on Tuva Discussions.

Enhancements to the Review Step While Uploading Your Dataset to Tuva.

Once you have chosen your dataset, you can now review it thoroughly before uploading it to Tuva.

The enhanced review step now allows you to edit and update various aspects of your dataset, including:

Updating the Title as well as the Source of the dataset.
Updating the Privacy Settings of the dataset.
1. The default privacy setting is “Only Me”, but you can update the setting to “Anyone with Link” if you want to share the dataset with others.
Updating the Name and Description of the attributes of the dataset.
Updating the Type of the attribute, allowing you to choose between Categorical or various Numerical formats.
Updating the Order of values for an attribute, choosing between Ascending or Descending order.

Review Step - Screenshot — Screenshot of the Review Step while Uploading the Dataset to Tuva

Remember – you can always make changes to the attributes from the Case Card if you have already uploaded the dataset to Tuva.