My students struggle with sleeping and are distracted by electronics. This interactive activity allows them to think about their sleep relative to norms regarding age and sex. It also dives deeply into how sleep changes over a person's lifespan, which is a topic suitable for non-static classes like Health or Developmental.   https://www.washingtonpost.com/wellness/interactive/2024/sleep-data-survey-americans/ *You need a WaPo subscription or paywall buster to get to this interactive. Like this one! https://www.removepaywall.com/search?url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wellness/interactive/2024/sleep-data-survey-americans/ Here is a quick interactive that a) lets your students see how well they sleep, in comparison to their demographic and b) think about median data and percentile data.  1. Repursped, gently used data is really everywhere. This interactive uses data from the Census Bureau. Which is a way to measure sleep, but not the only way. 2. Median and percentil...

Here is a YouTube video that summarizes some research findings . The researchers looked at Tweets in order to study how are focus and emotions change with our sleep/wake cycles. And the findings are interesting and not terribly surprising. Folks are mellow and rational in the morning and contemplate their mortality at 2 AM. Make money, get paid. And THIS is why I go to bed by 9 AM. I don't need to think about death at 2:20 AM. How to use in class: 1) Archival data (via Tweet) to explore human emotion. 2) What are the shortcomings of this sample method. To be sure, their data set is ENORMOUS, but how are Twitter users different from other people? Do your students think these findings would hold for people who work the night shift? 3) Go back to the original paper and look more closely at the findings: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0197002 4) This data represents one of the ways that researchers collect real-time information ...