Hi Dede! I explored the Budburst website a couple weeks ago, and according to their lesson plans, as an educator with an account, I can create a group within Budburst for my classes and invite students to the group.  Students would create a username, then share that username with me so I can invite them directly to my group. This way, children under 13 can participate in data entry without sharing personal information or connecting the account to an email address. I am not sure if this option is available to everyone or just educators and their students. I am also not sure if the "username only" accounts would have access to the data. I plan to try this early in the new school year with my students, as I would love my 7th graders to enter their own data to this project.

@Kristin Hello, I was hoping to use the Budburst Data in CODAP. Have either of you tried to import the csv into CODAP? It doesn't seem to be working for me. Laura

@Laura I have not tried that yet.  I have older technology; as you know I cannot video or microphone in to our meetings right now; so I am trying to baby my system along.  We had two ice storms back to back at the end of February and a violent hail storm at the end of March in Oklahoma that damaged our home and vehicles, so I have been trying to move and have stuff repaired and deal with the glass shortage and all of the other issues.  It takes so long with no help, so no, I have not tried this, but I would like to know if it works for someone.

@Kristin Thank you for the information.  That sounds like the way to go.  I have created teacher accounts for students to use with other science related projects.  Thank you for sharing.

I am very interested in the Budburst project because it seems to be very popular and useful.  Thank you for the background information.