Interactive Graphs and Maps at School

This material aims to provide a set of interactive and animated graphs and maps for some topics found in high school subjects. These teaching objects use interactive R packages, mainly plotly and gganimate.

Reproducible Interactive Teaching Objects (OIER) developed for elementary education

The Graphs & Maps section of Bioquanti has a repository of teaching objects of the same name accompanied by their commented code snippets, allowing for easy reproduction, customization, and creation of new materials for sharing. The repository covers the areas of Mathematics, Natural Sciences, Humanities, and Languages. It is divided into classes, each with some illustrative Reproducible Interactive Teaching Objects (OIER): Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Humanities, History, Geography, and Languages. Each OIER is referenced by its title along with some related codes from the BNCC. In order to simplify the production of each OIER for graphs and maps related to basic education, as well as to facilitate the use of R in the RStudio environment, the use of the plotly library was favored.

Occasionally, the ggplot2 library was used for more elaborate graphs, and subsequent conversion to plotly interactivity using the package’s ggplotly function. Sometimes the gganimate package was also used, which allows the creation of an animation by sequential representation of ggplot2 graphs, as well as some packages specific to a given situation.

Each OIER is structured in three parts:

1. The OIER itself, with title and BNCC codes;

2. The source code used to generate the object;

3. Suggestions for modifications to the source code to obtain a final object that is different from the original.

Teaching objects and codes