Educational content ideas/data sets
Interesting Data Sets
I know of Internet resources that present interesting data sets. But I don't undestand copyright laws enough to know if these sets can be incorporated into the OLPC project, so I'll just give examples of what I mean:
- The value of PI to 10000 places
- http://mondragon.angeltowns.net/paradiso/ValorDePi.html
- The first 10000 prime numbers
- http://www.aprendelibre.net/wiki/index.php/10000_Primeros_N%C3%BAmeros_Primos
- Table of Prime factors
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Table_of_prime_factors
- Common Names of People
- http://www.aprendelibre.net/wiki/index.php/Nombres_Propios_de_Personas
- Solar System Planet statistics
- http://www.aprendelibre.net/wiki/index.php/Datos_sobre_los_Planetas
- Geopolitical Statistics
- http://www.xist.org/default1.aspx
- UNICEF Maps concerning children (spanish)
- http://www.unicef.org/spanish/sowc05/maps.html
- Dinosaurs Data files
- http://internt.nhm.ac.uk/jdsml/nature-online/dino-directory/about-teachers.dsml (not open)
- Nutritional Content of Different types of food
- Roller Coaster Stats (to study energy conversion)
- Species Evolution Trees
- Species Statistics
- estimated numbers of individuals, geographic location
- The Powers of 10 tutorial
- http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/primer/java/scienceopticsu/powersof10/
- Natural Disasters Statistics
- Type, How many people affected, Affected regions, Dates (is "disaster" the right word?)
- Properties of Elements and Natural Substances
- uses
- Most often used words in a language
- Words that rhyme
- Collections of words with ortographic or phonetic properties
- Timelines
- technology advances, evolution, life forms, creation of continents, planetary formation, human evolution, philosophycal movements.
- Heights of Skyscrapers
- http://www.skyscraperpage.com/ (might be insulting to poor countries)
(Or localized alternatives)
- connectives (prepositions, pronouns, and the like)
- web2- Webster's Second International English wordlist
- web2a- Webster's Second Internations appendix english wordlist
- propernames- some common proper names
- airport- list of three letter codes for some major airports
- birthtoken- traditional stone and flower for each month
- inter.phone- international country telephone codes
- cities.dat- geographic coordinates of many major cities
- postal.codes- postal codes for US and Mexican states and
- languages- two-letter codes for languages, from ISO 639
- currency- currency abbreviations and names
- countries- country abbreviations and names and capital cities
- jargon.html- The Jargon file (same as the _Hacker's_Dictionary_)
- us-constitution- The Constitution of the United States of America
- us-declaration- The Declaration of Independence of the Thirteen Colonies
- Project Gutenberg Data
- http://www.gutenberg.org/browse/categories/8
