Announcement

Synergy: Our Powerful Tools + Your Best Ideas

Real-world pedagogy and data literacy are at the heart of Tuva’s mission. Today, we are advancing that work further by enabling you to create custom activities in Tuva using your own data.

The Tuva Activity Builder allows you to place your best lesson ideas beside our powerful, accessible data visualization tools. That means the ability to quickly explore data and create, revise, and analyze graphs will be right at your students’ fingertips.

Five Reasons to Take Advantage of Tuva’s New Activity Builder

1. Strengthen Connection, Deepen Comprehension

Collect data with your students one day, then incorporate their dataset into a lesson on Tuva for the following day. Students will have a deeper connection to and comprehension of the data when they’ve collected it personally.

This deep involvement in the entire science process–from collection to sophisticated visualization and analysis–helps students see themselves as scientists, not just people learning about science.

2. You Pick the Phenomena, We Provide the Tools

Your creativity far exceeds the bounds of our Science Content Library; we simply cannot encompass every possible anchoring phenomenon. The ability to craft lessons in Tuva from your own datasets allows you to stick closely to your anchor phenomenon without sacrificing the benefits afforded by the Tuva tools.

3. Create Lessons That Speak to Your Students

Relevance drives student engagement. Use local data to center your math or science lessons around places familiar to your students. Alternatively, capitalize on your students’ unique personalities by pulling in data about topics you know interest them.

4. Make Graphing Accessible to All Learners

Our tools are designed to be accessible for learners with diverse abilities. So, when you create your lesson in Tuva you can rest assured all students will be able to engage meaningfully with data. (Learn more about Tuva’s Commitment to Accessibility.)

5. Strut Your Stuff and Help Make the Future #DataLit

You’re brilliant. Your work should be shared. You can now enable school colleagues and far-flung teacher friends to use more data in their instructional practice by sharing a direct link to your original lessons in Tuva. (And while you’re at it, remind them to hit you back. It’s a team effort.)

How to Get Started Building Lessons

Select My Datasets on the Dataset Library dropdown.
Insert or upload data.
Select the Create Activity button in the lower right corner.
Create your activity.
Select Publish.
Choose one of the options: Publish Privately or Request Public Sharing.

Now, start sharing!

Sign Up for a (FREE) Private Tutorial

We’d be glad to show you how to use the Activity Builder. Sign up for a 30-minute office hours session to meet virtually with one of our educational specialists for a one-on-one tutorial.

Tuva’s New Feature Enables Teachers to Customize Activities

Tuva is excited to announce the release of a feature that makes it possible for teachers to customize activities. The ability to copy and revise activities went live this past Friday.

Previously, if a teacher wanted to change something minor, it was a time-consuming process. First they had to create a brand new activity using Tuva’s activity builder and copy the text of each question one at a time. Then they could make the desired changes. Now, teachers can customize in a fraction of the time.

“We are excited to support our teachers in the new school year with the launch of this feature. Teachers can now easily edit and personalize Tuva’s library of inquiry-based science and math lessons to meet the unique needs of their classrooms and students,” said Tuva co-founder and CEO Harshil Parikh.

Tuva Premium subscribers are able to copy and revise any activity in Tuva’s extensive math and science content library, which currently houses more than 350 activities.

Tuva Basic teachers can take advantage of this feature for all of Tuva’s free math and science activities.

Introducing a Brand New Tuva Datasets Library

We are excited to unveil a brand new look to the Tuva Datasets Library!

As the number of datasets, activities, and lessons continues to increase on the Tuva platform, we are striving to make it easy for you to filter and find the right curriculum resource that meets your needs.

save image — Screenshot of the new Tuva Datasets Library

The new Tuva Datasets Library page is arranged as follows:

Find all the Filter categories and sub-categories on the left sidebar.
Filter by Subject / Topic, Grade Level, Science (NGSS Core Ideas), Math topic, Dataset Size, Place / Region, and Language.
Easily switch between 15 free datasets (Tuva Basic) and All datasets (Tuva Premium) in the library.
Easily toggle between Block View and List View for all resources.
Quickly find all the archived datasets and activities.

Stay tuned for additional updates and enhancements to the new Tuva Datasets Library!

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!