Stepping out of rhythm: an embodied artifact for noticing rate of change

Making sense of data is fundamental to science. Yet, the form in which data are represented can make their interpretation challenging for students. We introduce an activity that transformed a data table into an embodied artifact. The activity helped 8th grade students interpret the data to find that cold water warmed “fast-then-slow,” in other words, that the rate of warming decreased over time. For the activity, students were invited to “act...